Making It Even Better! Kyosho Javelin

[@mattster197]

This was my first real RC back in 1986 or 87. Christmas present. I built it on my own. Had the belt upgrade instead of chain included. I later put a Tony Neisinger 14 turn on it and blue the rear diff apart. Its still in my basement with another chassis I got to repair it.

[@breakshot7451]

same here. after i destroyed cage and spoiler i took the optima body and threw it on it. sadly short after that he finally met his maker. watching this makes me miss him:)))

[@bharris0128]

I couldn't find a Javelin, so I'm sitting here building a 2016 Optima kit with all of the parts to make it a Javelin (including the white cage that I was luckily able to find) while watching your videos. Thank you sir!

[@RCKickschannel]

Have fun, it’s a nice build and well done for sticking with it and making it work, so you could end up with the buggy you wanted.

[@roblowrie1969]

IMHO, that looks sooo much better like that. 😎👍🏻 I hope you're feeling better soon. The bugs that are going about at the moment seem to hang around for ages!! My wife has feen feeling rough for a month now!! 🤞🏻

[@cardbaudit]

Yikes everyone is poorly! Hope you're feeling better soon Gav and that you and your family had a super festive period! Great vid, do enjoy these little projects.

[@michaeldorich4485]

I hope you feel better soon. The car looks a lot better. The white skeleton and black wheels were a good choice. The shocks look great.

[@TastierBackInThe80s]

I'm with you on everything but the black rims, they just disappear into the tyre.

[@maxpaul11]

looking awesome either way ypu put the wheels! This buggy looks awesome no matter what color you choose! It's like the Tamiya Wild One! Scale looking rc racing buggy! Thank you for sharing! I hope you feel better soon Gavin!

[@RCKickschannel]

Thanks 👍

[@ChrisFlys]

Black wheels make anything look better 😍

[@All_RC_Fun]

😮 That really changed the whole look of the car. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I do like the orange. Slap a couple 🚑 stickers on it with some lights and you’d have a medic unit. 😊 Looks great and hope you’re feeling better soon.

[@darkstorm303]

Looks a lot cooler in that configuration 👌

[@MrSneakyGunz]

I think white is sooo popular because with the white, one can dye it ANY color.

[@robertbonjour1629]

Hi! The out of the box plastic! steering for the Optimas is an absolute no go. Right from the beginning I switched to the metal servo saver and exchanged the plastic tie rod for turnbuckle links on both of my Optimas. Such great kits and then you get a super cheap, easy breakable plastic steering mechanism 🙈 No Kyosho, NO! The color of the metal servo saver doesn't detract from the gold anodised aluminium in my view. Quite the opposite, it's the logical technical solotion and the only upgrade I consider to be necessary aside from the stabilizers. Like your work!

[@AmbientRC]

Yeah that color combo looks way better for sure. Feel better soon bro!

[@louisedark9586]

I find it quite amusing that back in the day I swopped my CAT XLS shocks for the gold Optima Mid turbo ones, (shame I can't attach a picture) and you have gone the other way from Kyosho to Schumacher. 😉

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

I always thought it’d be cool to mix orange and black or orange and white or even black and yellow, or the turquoise and white.. I do like your all black n white combo.. get to feeling better. I had it the first 3 weeks of December. The cold that keeps hanging on. Take care, Thad

[@RCKickschannel]

The good news is you can mix it up and do loads of things with the options available. Yep this cold thats going around is a long one for sure. I am still under the weather and its been a good week and a bit now :(

[@Lee.gRC27]

Looks really good in the white

[@mitsuman5555]

Feel better buddy!

[@AMAZINGRC]

I have some cool Kyosho parts hanging on the wall in my studio. I have never had a Kyosho 😔 but I came across some odds and ends. I hung them on the wall because they look cool there...LOL. Really awesome video you have here. Totally worth the time waiting for the parts to come available. Hope you finally feel better soon. 😊

[@RCKickschannel]

If you get the chance, give a vintage Kyosho rere a go. 👍🏻

[@liamRC5487]

Great build. Love the black rims with it. If the tyre writing is fine ....use a small watch makers screwdriver to dip in the paint and ' scratch' it on👍

[@Timson254]

Looks way better like that! Hope you feel better soon Gav.. Everyone has this cold!.. I had it, thought I’d got over it, then had a relapse! Mehh!😢

[@RCKickschannel]

Sorry to hear that Tim. It drags on for ages thats for sure. Hope you feel better soon.

[@lawrencewinter]

That looks so much better, nice work. The orange is not great, the car seems to come to life in any other colour lol

[@RCKickschannel]

Yep I like the white and the yellow. It makes it pop more like you say :)

[@KaiCityRC]

Looks great! 👍 I did the exact same thing with mine when I built it as I'm not a fan of the orange cage either.

[@nate9392]

Nice look javelin I have optima not mid or turbo just reg optima one thing I hate about is the shock it leak from bottom because of screw most of RC usually have at top but other than it still awesome

[@michaelharvey-nb6vw]

Hey Gav, your javelin looks good. I was sceptical about the black wheels but it works on yours. I found a stand up front shock tower to improve the looks as well as the handling of the optima, give them a look.

[@andyrobinsonrc2480]

Hi :) personally every colour combo look better than the orange to me. Keith at RC icons did a really nice yellow and black version. The Schumacher shocks looks awesome much better than the red kit ones. Get well soon chap :)

[@RCKickschannel]

Thanks Andy :). The Schumacher shocks are a good fit on the Javelin and with a few adjustments you can get them perfect for this chassis. Well worth doing if you upgraded a Top Cat or Cougar to big bore Schumacher shocks as you can pass them down to the Javelin. That's how I ended up with a set. Ps Such a shame to hear about Force Raceway having to move out and close down :(

[@denozed6554]

Awesome makeover.

[@RCKickschannel]

Thank you! 😊

[@liamRC5487]

Well done Gav. You got through that OK. You did remind me of Bob Flemming from "The FastShow"

[@RCKickschannel]

LOL

[@RCACTIONAUSTRALIA]

Looks Great Gavin.

[@sammacmillan8027]

An absolute beauty

[@sathishpillay7178]

Awsome, just ordered this kit, where can I get those shocks and rims?

[@fordfsd]

I like the white! I’d have left the kyosho shocks. Hope you feel better. Love the shows!! Keep it up!! You should get a jrx-2.

[@RCKickschannel]

Upside down fill shocks are a pain and always end up leaking. The Top Cat shocks aren’t what you call state of the art, but a generation newer than the Javelin.

[@freerangehuman1976]

Give me give me give me. Make your own coffee mate.

[@prophetate]

Gorgeous 😊

[@Toystheyrenot]

Looks great!👍😊

[@RCKickschannel]

Thank you! Cheers! Still more to do.

[@lo2713]

Does look so much better in the white 👌 im still deciding if i need one of these in my life 🤔 get well soon Gav, ive the cold aswell and been 2 weeks now, it just wont shift 😭

[@liamRC5487]

It took me 4 weeks

[@RCKickschannel]

Hope you feel Better soon 👍🏻👍🏻

[@wasabee2935]

Your video inspired me to get one too. Can you tell me how to lower the suspension? Super new to this. Is that just remove the screw/ring inside the suspension?

[@RCKickschannel]

Just move the shock collars to the top of the damper and it will sit much lower. This is great for shelf and flat road driving but I would set it back from driving on the rough stuff. The good news is, it only takes a second to adjust them all back again.

[@wasabee2935]

@@RCKickschannel thank you so much

[@wasabee2935]

@@RCKickschannel can I ask how I straighten my RC wheels. Mine current wheels is on a angle. It was modified by my friend in the past. Understand it is better performance on track but I believe it cause my car not running straight. I would like to bring it back to normal.

[@rexy_yee8431]

With ref to the gold front part of the turbo , I have the gold part and even thou it’s a Kyosho part it is still a different gold , tbh the side bars match the chassis more than the front part

[@RCKickschannel]

That’s a shame.

[@jefflawhorn]

hey gavin .love your video's how can i get one of your rc kicks decals

[@RCKickschannel]

Hi Jeff, Email: [e-mail].

[@takayatakeuchi3685]

Speaking of orange, which color did you end up painting your Alpine Renault A110 in? French blue or orange? I got an MST 1:10 Renault A110 and am trying to decide which color I should use. Edit: A completely separate topic. I believe the first RC can that was wrapped around by a cage type body was Kyosho Land Jump (1:8 GP Buggy). Not the first 4WD RC car though, as that title goes to Todoroki 4wd (I forgot the exact name).

[@liamRC5487]

I was boarrrring and did white

[@RCKickschannel]

It’s still sitting in the build list. I have the decals to do blue or orange. I still don’t know what I’ll do.

[@michaelqendro9825]

Yeah first to comment. I picked up a Javelin but it's in the build pile.

[@hoho-ob8wi]

just wanted to know, is turbo optima possible to change javelin body?

[@RCKickschannel]

Yep I think so

[@Xjeepguy]

That part of the cage at the front of the cockpit that you said didn’t line up? The original 1986 Javelin was exactly the same lol. That was my first hobby grade RC back in ‘86, and that fitment always annoyed me.

[@RCKickschannel]

Shows you it’s all using the vintage tooling lol

[@soma_rc]

Tamico has the colored frames and wings in stock for 46,76 € + 8,84 €

[@RCKickschannel]

Import tax, exchange rate and handling make that expensive if you are in the UK. You are better off keeping an eye out for them in the UK. Obviously, if you are still in the EU, well it's a great price. Bloody BREXIT!

[@soma_rc]

@@RCKickschannel it works in both directions, I avoid buying in UK because of absurd clearance tax.

[@Heathcliff_hensel]

couldnt you just paint over the orange roll cage?

[@RCKickschannel]

The second you roll the buggy it would chip off.

[@Heathcliff_hensel]

@@RCKickschannel true but not if its a shelf queen.

[@Con-Brio]

For me, `buggys` need bigger wheels at the rear than at the front.

[@memememe2674]

On a side note regards delivered parcel notification yoh know that's wrong. I had tnat with evri. I was in all day waiting, then get a txt to say parcel attempt was made and card left, with a picture of my door frame, only the door frame no parcel. Went to door no card no parcel. Absolute nightmare trying g to sort it out, I know ask every purchase I make who delivers, if evri I go elsa where. I have been told since it depends on you local delivery centre and how its run but what till you try to get help on the main national call centre!!!!

[@peterjohnson9243]

GO TO BED!!!!

[@RCKickschannel]

I’ve got to service the car tomorrow and film one more unboxing video for Sunday release so I’ll be able to take Sunday off to kick back on the sofa for some R&R. 👍🏻

[@nickkalister6291]

schu shocks on a kyosho car is just WRONG lol that needs kyosho platinum shocks

[@RCKickschannel]

Good luck finding them

[@nickkalister6291]

@@RCKickschannel if u do let me know I’ll buy 3 sets for myself 😂

[@JeffersonHumber]

Check out the 'Mechanic After Hours' Javelin build on KZbin, it's inspirational stuff.... very similar to what you have done here.

[@thesillypig785]

He was what me decide to get one. Took months for the white cage to come back in stock though.