Another Turbo Optima Mid, this time a proper runner

[DanB4]

For this one I decided to be different and paint her white - I have a new box art yellow Turbo Mid and I'm pleased I went for the white, I reckon it looks cool!

The car came to me with a new genuine Kyosho shell and genuine decals - usually I'd sell these and buy repro but to celebrate the build of our off road track here in Muscat I sprayed up the shell and whacked on the decals (felt wrong but I did it anyway). You may notice that the front OT90's are narrow, these have been cut down from the standard wide wheels and I'm running old W-5033's on them...but I also have some wides if I ever want to compare differences in handling.

I left an old rear wing fitted in the pics, didn't want to waste the original wing decals on a tatty wing so am awaiting a new one to arrive which I'll spray and decal up.

The picture of the ground is what donuts look like with W-5033's/OT-66's!

I've installed an LRP IPC Digital ESC with a worn out Reedy Ti 11x2 and left the S148 in as it arrived.....such fun running her - I had my little girls with me so couldn't get great video but will soon and post the link , in the meantime here's a very short clip of me being a vandal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0y3DR-IFWc



Dan

[j0pp3]

What a great track to stretch out those vintage cars. Are you running gear diffs or ball diffs? I like gear diffs my self to reduce the maintenance. Do the tires wear out fast on that hard(?) dried out surface?

[DanB4]

Hi Joel this is an unmodified (apart from the front wheels/tyres) Turbo Mid so has the kit gear diffs installed - to be honest these tyres were useless on the track surface, I think I'll have to resort to using some more modern rubber but it hurts to add 2.2" wheels to this beauty.

Dan

[alcyon]

Make sure You only put synthetic oil in the engine, since its a turbo. We wouldn't want the oil to sludge up and cause engine seizure !

[DanB4]

There's always one! Haha