I've contacted CVF Racing about our waning pulley orders and this was their reply:
15 orders is very impressive! We realize that 15 orders may not translate into 15 sales and since your group is unable to draw 25 orders, we will design the Overdrive Water Pump Pulley Kit and put them up for sale at the regular price ($137 + $20 S&H). We will issue all buyers of this kit a coupon code to use and if you ever get up to 25 orders on that coupon code, We can issue a rebate of 10% (We can't offer the full 15% since we will have the inventory carrying costs from now until whenever the full 25 kits sell).
It will take about 8-10 weeks to get everything designed, programmed and manufactured. Hopefully, that fits your groups timeline? We are extremely busy right now because we are adding 3 groove A/C pulleys and single groove alternator pulleys for all our product lines. We are also adding billet P.S. and Alt brackets for Ford.
We would be interested in doing Pontiac brackets, but that is going to be further down the road and we need to get an engine to help design them up. Where do you get your brackets made if you don't mind me asking? Do you know anyone that makes a decent set of Pontiac Brackets?
If these do well, we may add the alternator only option in overdrive but right now I am a little overwhelmed with new products. We are trying to get everything released before the spring rush....
We may be able to do better than the 8-10 weeks, but we always like to under promise and over deliver. It's not really the design that is the bottle neck. We can have the have drawings done in a day or two since it is very similar to our existing pulleys. It's more about re-programming the CNC, getting the right size material in, scheduling etc (7.25" is bigger than anything we currently make). Just getting the material in will take about 2-3 weeks.
We are a relatively small company, but we are growing like crazy. We've sold more in the first 2 months of 2010 than we did in all of 2009! That kind of growth has put a strain on our resources. On top of that, we are adding 30+ new pulleys / brackets in March / April. Our goal is to get these new products out in time for spring fever when everyone up north gets their cars out of storage. We will shoot for 6-8 weeks on the water pump overdrive pulley kits..
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