Hello all - I’m at a bit of a crossroads here regarding the Nova situation, so any advice here would be much appreciated… I bought a Mephisto .12 literally days before word of Novarossi’s closing due to the situation in Italy last year as the pandemic was taking hold of that country. While my personal racing plans got put on hiatus for a while, this entire lack of information for over a year now has left me with a difficult decision to make.

That being said, now that I am personally ready to resume my racing program by years end, I don’t know what to do, so I must ask - should I consider selling the Mephisto, and going with something readily available, or are there other tuners out there who could reliably supply parts compatible with Novarossi equipment? I would have thought by now that there would be some news (good or bad) straight from the horse’s mouth, but sadly, this is not the case. Anyway, any advice would be much appreciated. I’ve already ordered an O.S. Speed T1204 combo kit as a replacement to have in my “garage”, regardless of what my final decision on the Mephisto is.

Oh, on a somewhat related note, I recently came across 2 1-Quart bottles of some old (approx. 7-8 yrs.) Sidewinder 20% fuel which obviously I have absolutely no intention of ever using, even though they remain sealed… so the question is, how the heck do I safely dispose of this stuff?