Thank you both. I really appreciate the info.

As far as what motors will be run, these guys won't do the whole motor of the month thing. Tekin and HobbyWing will be the motors/esc of choice.

I made it very clear to them the body needs to resemble a production based racecar. No goofy tribal paint schemes.

Track we will most likely use is at Trains and Lanes in PA as it's the closest outdoor on-road course I currently know of. Looks to be kept clean. Since it's not out of the realm to use 48 pitch gearing, I'll go with that since I have a ton of spurs laying around from when I used to have HPI Sprint 2s. They know about Gravity tires, and spoke wheels. They love stuff like this. We follow a similar setup for our parking lot 13.5 cars. No T/C blobs, slicks, or crazy ESC timing. We all love door to door racing.

Only info I find on the TF7 is from Kyosho, says internal ratio is 1.9. I'm not entirely sure how large the Trains and Lanes track is, so I'll have to wait until spring when we go to find out.