Superior XP-382 XP-400 recall

[tracer]

I just heard that Superior has a mandatory recall on all XP-382 and XP-400 engines. That is a huge deal. I have an XP-382 that just rolled over 25 hrs.
Does anyone know any more about this?

[Jeff A]

A friend of mine in Santa Rosa just got a call about an hour ago from Superior. He was only a couple months from first flight. He’s not happy to say the least.

http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...09#post1328209

[xavierm]

From Kitplanes:

"When we first learned of the breadth of the detonation problem, we contacted XP-400 engine owners and paid to have them ship their engines to our facility for evaluation," he said. "We disassembled, inspected and tested the key components in each engine."

"The good news was the majority of the engines were absolutely clean, with no signs of stress wear or damage," Hayes said. "The bad news is of the few we found with issues, neither our engineering team or our metallurgy specialists were able to define a consistent root cause of the issues."

Full text here: https://newsline.kitplanes.com/2019/...p-382-engines/

[Chris Engler]

Yes - as indicated in the link below "Scott Hayes, VP, Sales and Marketing for Superior Air Parts, Inc., announced that the company is implementing an immediate and mandatory buy-back of all the Superior Air Parts XP-382 and XP-400 series experimental aircraft engines in the field."

https://newsline.kitplanes.com/2019/...p-382-engines/

There are a few threads currently running on this topic but the bottom line is Superior is immediately grounding all 382s and 400s and will buy back all engines.