adamt

Hi all, I have a worn center/cluster gear on my original Optima. It's the 41/18t thing. A simple replacement of these appears to be expensive and difficult to get hold of. What are my options? I don't think the re release gears fit without replacing the whole lot, Inc diffs. Are there other options Vs the original, direct replacement?

Yep, chain drive setup. One of the rear wishbones is cracked and naturally all four shock collars are broken. I work in a high tech industry, and somehow the fact that everything is still compatible 30 years later is a very nice surprise.

Hi all, My kids got given a very old (very bad) RC car which has now broken. This reminded me that I had my Optima in the loft that I built with my dad around 30 years ago. I absolutely loved that we built it together and it's a great memory (he died when I was 14). Now it is time for the rebirth! I figured a few of you might like to see the photos, so see below. I have a few kinda newbie questions too that could help my rebuild. Q1) This will have 8mm shock bodies I assume (my verniers are not handy) Q2) I'd quite like to keep the original acoms ARC 227 receiver. I assume the outputs of this will be compatible with modern servos and ESCs? Q3) I'm going to replace the MSC. Is there anything I should look out for? I notice that the current wiring includes all the BEC etc, so I'm assuming I can do the same sort of thing with modern ESCs Q4) It's a stock, kit 540 (mabuci?) motor. I assume this would be brushed?