Kyosho Ultima JJ Replica, 87 Worlds winning buggy. Unboxed and built, 60th Anniversary Ultima. 

Now that is a classic lookihg re re, love it

Great looking Car👍👍

Cracking build 🤩 Thanks for sharing 👍Mine should arrive on Monday, will be built and will sit next to the Masami Cat XLS 😉

Looking good!

Looks like a cool old buggy, thanks for showing it to us! I'll be looking forward to seeing your run video with it, see what you do with the paint job, and of course how it handles.

Great looking kit, a worry not to get the body wrong. The chassis will get scratched once run, I cannot see why people would worry unless it will sit on a shelf. That's has turned out a nice chassis, motor wires look a pain to run.

Very cool Richard. Looking forward to getting mine.

Looks great Richard. Certainly a upgrade from the standard Ultima and I would imagine it is going to go an absolute treat pal 🙌🏻

That front bulk head and arm looks like it will snap in 1/2. Guess we will find out in the running video..

The complaints of chassis "faults" is because in the RC world we are used to shiny carbon fibre that's often still flexible as being high quality, while in engineering it's seen as the cheap option. The carbon used in most RC chassis made by putting layers of carbon fibre cloth into wet epoxy resin, then sandwiching it between two plates until the resin hardens. This gives a sheet of carbon fibre that has usually a shiny finish but the fibres are coated in a relatively thick film of resin. Prepreg carbon can be used, which is stronger, but part of the thickness of the chassis is still made up of the two outer layers of wet resin which reduces the amount of carbon fibre in the thickness. It looks like the JJ chassis is made from prepreg carbon. With prepreg the resin is infused into the carbon fibre as the cloth is being made, then these sheets are sandwiched in the mould and baked under pressure to make the carbon sheet. This means you have more carbon and less resin in the chassis, so the chassis is stiffer and lighter than the more common carbon fibre we are used to. There are two downsides to using prepreg, the most noticeable is that because the resin is dry as it's infused into the fibres, so cannot flow like wet resin, you get small voids between some of the fibres which are showing up on the chassis. The other downside of prepreg is that it's more expensive to make.

Nice build, seems to be high quality kit 👍will follow your upcoming videos 🙂

Nice video Richard ;) look forward to see it running at Blackpool charged rc show. I’ve just fitted electrics in mine and got it all up and running, body to go now. Those shocks were a Fiddle and some of the e-clips I thought as well but I’m Cack handed ;) the build was nice though.

Looks really good 👌definetely a race breed buggy👍

Looks really nice mate. And it will be great to see this up and running. Looks like a proper race car bare bones Spartan like race chassis but damn it looks like that will make a fat car💪👌👍 I've subscribed.

Thanks so much for posting I'm about to build my 87 JJ kit soon! Can you share what Servo, Motor, Batteries, Receiver you used for your build? I'm an 80's old school guy and not as familiar with the modern stuff. Thanks!

Not sure if it is justified but I was expecting not that much wiggle in the steering. I was considering getting this as my first Kyosho since I like the clean, uncluttered look since the chassis is just one plate, but that steering is putting me of that plan. Thank you for this informative video.

Great vid what motor are you running in it? Cheers

For those of us stuck in the early 90’s can it take a NIMH stick pack ?

Yeah I feel that there’s more than 1500 world wide surely

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What!? no double sided tape on the servo? what's next pronouns? unsubscribed!! 😂 seriously congratulations awesome stuff Richard, really looking fwd to seeing her run, so err, yea re-subscribed, cheers and best wishes as always friend. Andrew (he/him)

What a waste of money!

Ultima sucks! RC 10 forever!