thanks for the kind words Randal, it has been quite a journey with this car! I haven't tracked it, nor even had started it almost a year and fired it up Sunday and shot around the housing development I live in and can say that car is an amazingly visceral ride for sure. My uncle is coming into town tomorrow so I am taking it to the track Friday for a test and tune day and plan to really pound on it tho' I suspect my wheel work will be rather rusty
He is the guy that got me into hot rods so we will see if he wants a ride or not, he wasn't a racer, just a cool car dude. As soon as I fired it up I knew I had to have a few more track days this Fall in the car before tearing into it.
I would love to have done some hill climbs and was looking into the Sandhills Open Road stuff that just happened last weekend since it is only 300 miles from my house, but again, by the time I learned about it, the registration was filled. And it is an odd deal as there are no hotels in the area, people stay at local's homes which I frankly feel a bit much for my taste, and there were some funky limitations on the speeds I would be able to run. I was going to do the first one with the Vette I had in fact due to speed limitations the first time, but again, registration was wrapped up. And I sold the Grand Sport in Feb when I realized I really want a track car I can drive on the street, not the other way around which the GS was for me.
The 914 is fast, it is really fast actually as of last September when one lap I ran was down in Cup car territory for the track, but it is also a LOT of work to run a lap like that. I really don't know how the pros can do it for so many laps like they do. I run a couple laps on the ragged edge and I am mentally wore out
I think the Nova will be a really cool car too if I can figure out how to get all the ideas in my head into a real car. I have never built my own chassis start to finish bending/cutting all the tubing and I really want to teach myself how to do all of that. Will be a lot less cage in the car, but will keep the sequential transaxle, adapt a Corvette torque tube between the Chevy and the Mendeola which will be an interesting problem to solve, so forth, so I am looking forward to a change and another unique project.