Team Speed Merchant boss Bruce Carbone posted the following personalized letter to his favorite customers on the company's website.
Hi Guys,
Hope everyone is having a great week.
I'm going to do a small pre-order run of RoadKill 10's for you guys. I don't have instructions done, box art, etc., but I'm pretty sure most of you don't care at all from the e-mails I've been getting. LOL. I was waiting for a knock on the shop door by a few of you.
Sorry for taking a little longer to get these up for sale, but I did a tiny re-design on the rear pod width, and I wanted to get the new stuff cut before I actually gave it the thumbs up.
I just narrowed the rear about 6mm. We had done our testing with JACO rims/tires and they are a little narrower than the BSR off-set that is very popular right now.
With some of the bodies out there, the rear tires would've rubbed, or you would've had to trim the rim a little which can be a pain in the a$$.
No biggie, just put me behind a few days.
I'm only going to do 10 of these at 1st. I'm very low on New Schools...to the point I will be using ones reserved for the Team guys to get these kits out the door. I would also really like to get the Box art done as well as all the other stuff that goes along with releasing a new car.
This batch also will NOT come with a rear axle (obviously the price will reflect that). Dave Irrgang of IRS fame, and hands down the very best designer/manufacturer of axles/diff sets for pan cars since the beginning of time... has retired.
Congratulations Dave and thank you for the many, many quality products over the years.
Luckily, Dave's awesome axles and diffs are going to be continued to be manufactured by the very capable hands of Barry down at R.C. Hobbies/Hyperdrive/MSA.
I'll have a batch of the 235mm axle sets coming in, just not in time for this RK10 pre-order.
I know several of you already have 235mm axles, if not a quick look brought up Mudslide Motorsports with the IRS2135...which the exact same 235mm axle set we use on our cars. If you want to splurge, it looks like they have Black anodized ones in stock also.
The Kit will come with everything you see in the pictures, except the rear axle set. It will include the braces/mounts for the Brick packs as well as standard 7.4 Stick packs. It will come with a really hard to get New School front suspension, the new molded side links and the new low CG rear pod set. The kits should go out the end of July - 1st week in August. Possibly sooner if I get caught up on all the Asphalt Nats and Pre-World Champs testing stuff.
The new SpeedMerchant RoadKill 10 is part #1875. I'm only selling 10 to start. As soon as more New School suspension molds are in, they will be readily available for the upcoming season.
Thank you for being patient, and thank you for the support.
I can't wait to see vid's of these things ripping around tracks.
Thank you and have a great day.
- Bruce
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