I started watching your channel because your the only person that races vintage kyoshos and your tuning skills are amazing. I bought an rc truck 15 years ago or so I thought for $35 dollars and when I broke the steering hub I looked for a replacement. I couldn’t figure out what type of rc truck it was except for a kyosho stamp on the steering top plate. I had no knowledge on rc cars at the time. After doing some research and buying so many wrong parts I figured out it was a Kyosho ultima type r!! Now I own 3 and one has almost all the Kyosho ultima type r evolution parts. One of them I used rb5 steering hubs, Type r Evolution wide rear arms with zx-5 65.5 axles and evolution aluminum top shaft with the bigger vented clutch disc and team blue groove type r reproduction body, rb5 wheels, brushless 10.5t and it rips!! I dont race but have used your expertise to set up my car! Looking forward to you racing your type r!
You'll be good with that. Doing a quick Google search, it looks to have been released in 2000. But even if it was a little earlier that would be OK. I looked at the Y2K class to be cars that were in production in 2000 and newer..... like the B3 and XXX. Technically, the B3 could run in both 2wd classes with the 97 cutoff. Unless I somehow get my B4.1 race ready, I'll be running my B3 in the Y2K class, and most likely a B2 in 2wd.
Yeah I kind of figured that Y2K is basically for anything newer than the conventional 2wd class. Still sorting out the rest of what I'll bring. Too many 2wd buggies to choose from. I was thinking of some RC10s I haven't run in a while, but at the moment I'm leaning toward the Triumph or Pro-X for 2wd. I can't sleep right until one of them gets a result it deserves. Stadium truck would maybe be the Pro-XRT, as the XXT isn't ready and I want to save the T2 for VONATS where it works very nicely. 4wd will probably be the 92 Works YZ10. Only problem there is I'd be running 4 classes and that may be a bit too busy for one day, especially if I'm also helping my son out with his car. Choices, choices...
Possibly. I tried google searching the release date and ended up with something in the late '90's. However, looking up the manual itself (duh) puts the Type R at 2000 and the Type R Evo at 2003.
@@doctormosfet, correct me if i am wrong, the ULTIMA II series up until the PRO XL version released at the end of 1999 perhaps. based on the Kyosho catalog. I too was planning to run this chassis in my local vintage race, but due to the pre 2000 rule, its not possible, i dont understand why they took so long to clone the B2-B3, since by 1999 the B3 reigned supreme. yet Ultimas are still running those clunky gearboxes
Triumph was 1991, I think. Then the Pro-X in 1993. After that was the RB Type R, which apparently took about 7 years. It may have been related to development cost and/or tooling cost, in terms of how long it took and the slow evolution of the gearbox.
Haven't tried it that way, but I did try the other way, seeing if a RB5 body fits the RB type R. It seems to fit with some small modification, although it doesn't look quite right.
