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Originally Posted by Tim 8-A
A different perspective, As a buyer I would not buy a aircraft unless the engine was new or built by a well known engine shop.
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This is bad advice to give. The RV-6 I fly has an engine built by a reputable shop and I've found several things wrong with it, some of them serious that required cylinder overhaul.
The things I look for:
1. Documented AD compliance with detailed descriptions of how compliance was determined.
2. Documented main bearing clearances during assembly.
3. Main and rod dimensions (is this a last run crank?)
4. Documented rod bolt replacement.
5. All yellow tags retained.
6. Was balancing done.
7. Individual cylinder bore diameters.
...in other words, the guy who really cares about quality is the one that documents everything so the next guy doesn't have to question what was done.