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Originally Posted by Crashtest33
Wow!! Time, patience & effort all rewarded with this!
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Thanks, this project was in gestation for a long time, with the color scheme it kind of reminds me of Oosh (RIP) Lazer. I did borrow a few ideas from his build. The other non-standard builds planned are an all Carbon Ultima, SWB Mid with Trinity chassis and all vintage hop-ups and a Lazer ZX-RS Carbon fibre tub car, I am just prepping parts for anodising for all these projects. I do also have all the standard Mid variants to build and the Turbo Optima Mid SE-X will be receiving some changes and hopefully be finally completed.
Somewhere in all of that I will build my runner with the vintage carbon ZX-R tub I have here
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Originally Posted by alcyon
Awesome, I always though the only bad part of the optima mid was its suspension. with the Lazer Arms I am sure its handling will be brought to the next level. A few questions I have as I am interested in these parts too.
1. Where did you get the rear top deck /bulkhead mount from ? My plastic one keeps stripping at the motor mount screws causing the motor plate to loosen. I also think that graphite MSC plate that mounts the bulkhead on the opposite side like the ZX-r Mk2 is the way to go to prevent loosening.
2. I am also interested in the alloy spacers you placed in between the UMW-1 wing stays to stiffen them.
Please let us all know.
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The bulkhead I found on eBay I have no idea where to get a new one, maybe Pargu could do one, I see he now does the C Hubs in alloy for the Mid.
The spacers are Kyosho blue radio posts, you can find them on eBay but if you don't care about the color you can just use the radio plate posts form a Mid, they are identical bar the color. I still needed to put a 1 or 2mm (can't remember) washer either side as the posts were not quite long enough but thats easy enough
The trick is you have to drill out the UMW-1 to accept 3mm screws and there is not much meat there, don't try and just tap the larger thread with a screw or it will snap the material, drill it out.
So still deciding if I switch the shock towers and if I use the ZX-S body on it. I have a stock mid undertray I will put on it for now while I am deciding