Congratulations Gary -- I'm looking forward to seeing you on the course! Nice looking airplane, too. I do think your cross country may convince you that a race trailer is a necessity. I've heard many stories over the years about CC in formulas -- even reading a map in an airplane with no room at all and which has to be flown every second sounds like an experience! Having said that, Steve Wittman used to fly his racers everywhere, and even carry a racing prop stuffed in the rear fuselage...
Rob and Rich -- this airplane was designed as a racer back in the fifties I think, but hundreds have been built as wonderful sport planes as well as many as racers. And it is quite a bit smaller than an RV-4! As a racer it has to have an O-200, though some sporters have been built over the years with somewhat larger motors. A good racing Cassuttwill be between 500 and 600 pounds, and a well-engined stock one with a good prop will run the app. 4 mile Reno closed course at up to 225 mph or so (not too shabby for a Cessna 150 engine!). The Cassutt is also a great basis for endless modification -- new wings, tails, cockpits, cowlings -- everything can be and has been fiddled with over the years. Here is the current alpha racer -- called a Cassutt in the program but obviously not too like Gary's stock example. Mariah is flown by my friend Gary Hubler from Idaho, and has run that short Reno course, with no straightaways to speak of (so nearly always banked and turning) (at up to 7500 foot density altitude too), at over 260 mph...
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What kind of engine have you got shoehorned in there? 