Kyosho Ultima Finished… 

Had an original, long gone, just bought one to relive some awesome memories with my kids, I’m 70 now !! Great videos 👍

Beautiful! I had one of these when I was 14yrs old (51 now) and really considering buying another to build and have in my office. Thanks for the videos!

I have the original one I had that I bought when i younger, working on getting running again. One of my favorites!

Hi mate the spring you need Kyosho UTW008 FS R Shock Spring Set(MM/MH/2pcs/Ultima)

Came out awesome! So iconic.

I remember these on the track back in the day racing head to head with rc10’s! My first buggy was a turbo ultima- Now I feel old!

No, youre 100%. Kyosho doesn't do driver busts well at all. Its where Tamiya does excel. Well done.

Be still my ♥, she's Beautiful, that's the car that started my racing career, many,many years ago , Simply Stunning. Well done Brother 😎👍 The cab forward look is quite interesting isn't it? would love too see what you could do with that !

Enjoy the car, and enjoy the memories!

Looks stunning 👌 this is one car that high on my want list, but there not cheap 😭 guess i’ll have to do some overtime 😂

Thanks for sharing! I have one of these awaiting build as well. Would you mind doing a video on the process you use to apply the decals? You're always look so perfect. Thanks again.

Looks amazing. The Ultima was the 2nd RC I ever owned back in 87’. My first was The Hornet. Thanks for the video.

Gold springs are a different spring rate than the black ones. Ultima is lighter in the front so lighter springs. Optima is heavier so gold all around. Buy the optional spring set and you can change them if you don't care about the spring rate.

The Ultima is really a super impressive kit with great quality and terrific driving characteristics.

Pretty sweet looking build, totally was thinking that I couldn't live with the mismatched spring colours lol I do think my preference would be for the lower wing position, in part because from the side the wing mounts look very bulky being solid panels.

Neat as a pin Glenn. Great camera angles at the end too. Really got a good appreciation of the way it looks completed.

I had one of these back in the day. I was the envy of everyone who raced

Looks great Glenn.. happy Easter brother

Came out great, as you say such an icon. Kyosho driving figures always made me laugh, they didn't really care much for them - Kyosho were more about performance (function over form) 🙃

It looks great and it is one really high up on my "next to get" list! It is a really great looking and iconic design and I love the open aluminum frame!

I live my Ultima so much I'm realy tempted to do another one and do a bit different project...

G'day Glenn your concerns about the wing hight I recon you have nailed it. IT was set low just for looks completely useless. Were you have your wing set it will make a difference help give some down force straight line stability try doing some runs with a wing and with out you will see a difference in lap times. Great video Glenn as all ways 👍

So Cool! Cheers!

Hi Glenn , Nice build, The Ultima is a great build and a lovely car to run. My three vintage Ultima’s are always getting run the handle really well and are pretty tuff for 35 year old cars. The gold rear springs on the RERE are the Kyosho hard spring, this is due to rear weight bias of the car. There are three spring rate for the RERE cars gold hard, black medium and silver soft. It was the same back in the day with the option house shocks.

Fantastic looking buggy, you've done an awesome job!!

I had one many years ago the original too (with black springs all round lol) l drove it a few times down the beach and it was epic! If a little light it needed a bit of weight but thats because of modern electrics so the suspension was not as smooth as it probably would of been? Probably just me not having the right oil lol but they probably set the shocks different on the rere? Maybe explains the gold springs??? I have one still picture of my Ultima on my FB acount but never got any action shots regrettably and yes what a plum! I sold it back then to get something else! Back to yours Glenn, stunning mate absolutely stunning! I need to use white and orange more too it really goes well. Cracking video my friend really enjoyed that one and a treat getting a look at your display cabinets in that vid! Lots of fantastic cars to see! Cheers James.

A true icon of RC looks awesome well done Glenn 👍🤩🏅

Car looks awesome, but Ultimas always do. My all time favourite chassis. I really should finish mine off. On my re-re I just have to do the body and decals, on my OG one I have to figure out a way of masking off an already cut out body with stickers on it (it's clear). Still haven't figure out how. The first Ultima I owned would have been in 88. Bought it off a mate. The body was a day glo pink. I'd only driven Tamiya buggies up to that point. The Ultima was just so much better. It got nicked out of my back shed....still miss it.

Need 2 lower the wing, black springs, but ❤ it 😊

You did a beautiful build.

Look awesome Glen! I just got finished with an rb7 restoration and have found a love for Kyosho. Wish I didn’t have to sell it.

Looks great, well done as usual! Now to figure out those gold springs😆

It looks amazing! Fantastic design, I agree the gold rear shocks is out of place but I just read David's comment so it makes sense.

I have a rere Ultima, built it December 2020 and absolutely love it. So much fun to drive. Think I'm gonna dig out the white decals you added to the chassis and apply those, they look great.

I do agree the wing should be a bit lower and maybe with some #5 decals on the wing plates. I wonder if there was a packing / parts issue with gold springs in place of black. Very odd!

It looks great I agree black springs would look better. The driver looks good with all the decals on

Gorgeous

I was always a 4WD Buggy guy, but the Ultima always impressed me with its high stance in the Kyosho catalog. This kinda fascinated me ever since. I have a rere kit waiting to be build, but I'm just not so quick with my builds, but it will be different than boxart, that's for sure. It's intresting to see your build especially the point about the wing height and springs. But as other already mentioned,it's because of the different spring rate.

I'm looking at an old 1988 Tower Hobbies magazine, and the Turbo Ultima has the black front and gold rear springs. I wonder if they planned to dovetail those springs for a Turbo release to save money on having two separate part numbers.

I have never been a Ultima fan, but you might just have won me over with this build 🤔🤷‍♂️

The spring color indicates the spring rate. But I agree, from an aesthetic point of view, this does not look good. I believe you need Kyosho OTW124 if you want to switch to a black one.

Man! Been checkin' out the channel for a couple days now. I gotta ask. How much is your collection worth!? It's quite amazing for sure.

I noticed the gold springs myself on the rear of mine one, and I also was wondering why kyosho did that. I refused to use them. so I bought a set of Hsp buggy shocks black springs there a lot stiffer and looks way better. Also those gold springs I found to be too weak, once you start adding the weight to it like the motor and the battery, can’t really hold the weight. Even if you shift the spacers it’s still weak. The hsp springs are dirt cheap and they perform better. I usually use them for most of my Tamiya RC’s because most of the stock springs that come with the KITTs are just too soft regardless.

I believe remenber even chassis could be with carbon or titanium in option. Not only up but down chassis instead aluminium with or without both sides. This model was interessant for rheir options as their gold (or sime others) suspension with long movments and more oil liquid standart ones. They were pieces from brand to change lenth of hydraulic suspension and back quality as number of gears was an optimised choice in competition. Even motor cover with gold metal was an option as quality of raw material of back protection of gears. Backs axes for wheels as rotuls could be in carbon or titanium. As well complete front and back mecanism till wheels.

Was this one slightly after or before the RC10…….always preferred the looks of this! Wonder putting both the RC10 and the Ultima rere’s head to head today which would be the better buggy?! Great build series as always!!🎉🎉

I could be wrong. Which isn't the first and sure won't be the last. But those 6°shims u have on the wing may be on backwards

Hi Glenn, I have one of these cars and I also have the Scorpion too. On my Scorpion I have top loading shocks. On my Ultima I used the included bottom loading shocks. If you want to keep to keep your Ultima original the bottom loading shocks are okay. I did get mine to work. However, if you want your Ultima to work better, get some top loading shocks from Kyosho. Thoughts?

Hi Glenn, great video. I am looking into the Ultima as my next build. What motor and electronics will you be installing into the vehicle?

I'm wondering if the different coloured springs are due to different stiffnesses.

What servo and electrics are you going to use?

It doesn't look daf to me.

I have a strong feeling I’m on the hook for this on evilbay! 🛻🪨⛰🌳🌲🐐