{"id":2802,"date":"2021-05-16T12:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T12:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:42:21","slug":"techtip-video-about-the-kyosho-optima-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"Techtip video: about the Kyosho Optima series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_20200224_095228-scaled.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The original Kyosho Optima was a rear mounted motor 4wd buggy with a chain drive. It shared the chassis with other models including Javelin and Salute. The Javelin uses a pipe-frame type body. The Salute uses beefier suspension arms, bigger gold shocks, modified motor and full ball bearings similar to that of Turbo Optima. The Optima Pro was like a combination of the regular Optima and the Turbo with different shocks, steering servo mounting, a special aerodynamic body and an undertray. The Optima Mid has a different structure with a mid mounted motor as well as a belt drive system.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QPYxogdaLO0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RCPRESS vid Vintage Kyosho Optima 4wd\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_GPOO0AgVM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original Kyosho Optima was a rear mounted motor 4wd buggy with a chain drive. It shared the chassis with other models including Javelin and Salute. The Javelin uses a pipe-frame type body. The Salute uses beefier suspension arms, bigger gold shocks, modified motor and full ball bearings similar to that of Turbo Optima. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,57,59,82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8267,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/8267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}