Payton - yeah I will definitely be there Thursday and Friday. I meet my friends out there every year (one of them owns a shop I worked at with him back in the 90s in SoCal) and normally ride over to CA with them afterward for a few days. This time I will drive down with my enclosed trailer to then go get the Nova.
Have my list of vendors I am going to try to hit to get recommendations on the Nova project
I am not going to the Optima event tho' - I am going straight to CA after and then the looooonnnnnggg drive back with the trailer and car.
gnx7 - I actually first built the car while living in LA and let me tell you, I can seriously feel the HP difference after moving to a mile high. Lost over 100HP! At Willow Springs I could hit 165 in the straight. That is when I decided I had better build a full tube chassis
I tried to get one test and tune in before I moved but the car broke just out of T4 - totally long story - so I never got a chance to really run it there. I could run 135mph in the long sweeper turn and added a wing when I did the tube chassis, so expectations were closer to 155-160mph with a settled rear end.
Trust me, if I had room for both cars in my trailer I would take the 914 to WSIR this November while picking up the Nova and just see how nuts it would be.