Optima Pro - belt drive

[dinglem]

Does anybody have any information on this? It's a little before my time as I only had a couple of Mids from the Kyosho range bitd.

It has a belt drive conversion which I believe was an optional upgrade. Anything else I should know about?

[tamiyadan]

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[dinglem]

That one isn't mine. A friend of mine builds up Mids and got a pile of spares with one of the cars he purchased, which he quickly realized was an actual complete car which had been stripped down - he didn't know what it was as before his time too. He steadily worked out where everything went and this is the result. He offered it to me a while back but I didn't take it at the time. I imagine he still has it.

Shock close-up. That's all of the pics I have of it.

[tamiyadan]

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[rccars4sal]

The chassis or at least the shock towers, side plates and motor guard are great vigor beagle. I think the shocks are too, but beagle came with black springs. Its mostly beagle from what I can see. No worries though,,, beagle and optima are pretty much 100% compatible parts wize.

[DennisM]

I think rccars4sal is right on it being a Beagle.

[tamiyadan]

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[dinglem]

WOW - Never even heard of that. Top posting fellas!

(Glad I didn't buy it now!)

[tamiyadan]

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[rccars4sal]

That box and documentation are more scarce than the cars. Ive never seen them. That first one at 90 bucks was my last build.

[Martco78]

you can get the manual here for the belt drive.
http://theoptimahouse.blogspot.com/2008/05/belt-drive-kit-for-optima.html

you can also determine if it was the kyosho kit or aftermarket

Great link.
I now know that the belt drive on my vintage Optima/Turbo hybrid is the Option House version.
Sweet.

[TomEG]

kyosho hopup 100,000th optima celebration rear motor guard. the celebration parts were gold anodized.

No, that's not a Kyosho motor guard. And just to be nitpicking, the Kyosho gold motor guard (and the side guards) were not parts of the limited "Celebration kit".

[dinglem]

Just to add, i got given this car for free in the end, so not all bad. I might build it up as an Optima-ish and see how it runs. Came with a 240ST as well.