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Old 12-27-2013, 04:55 PM
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25 GPH! That track picture is one expensive donut!

Glad to have you back in the air.
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Old 12-30-2013, 03:57 PM
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Your airplane looks great! Do you know how many Super RV-8s are flying? Are there any plans or parts out there?
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Old 12-30-2013, 04:11 PM
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Your airplane looks great! Do you know how many Super RV-8s are flying? Are there any plans or parts out there?
You can start here.
http://mstewart.net/super8/faq.htm
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Old 12-30-2013, 04:42 PM
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This was fun and educational! As always thanks Mike. Great to see you back in the air
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Old 12-30-2013, 05:22 PM
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Mike, that took some serious hours to mount it all up in 5 days! Nice looking install.
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Old 12-30-2013, 07:05 PM
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I am going to get the man himself JB to jump in and answer this question.
Would like to hear comments on this negative or positive. Always wanting to learn more.
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Old 12-30-2013, 09:39 PM
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What a great thread. Thanks for all the pics.
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Old 12-31-2013, 06:32 AM
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kahuna, that is one nice xmas present. happy new year and many safe flying hours. great education on engines. do you have a final tally on the entire project? has it gone upside down yet?
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Kanuna, I'm very interested in your oil cooler mount, seen in this picture. It's hard to see much in the way of details. Where did you get this? Is it fiberglass? Did you make it yourself?

Any comments or further information, especially after all of your experience with it? Much appreciated, thanks.
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Old 01-02-2014, 07:57 AM
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Kanuna, I'm very interested in your oil cooler mount, seen in this picture. It's hard to see much in the way of details. Where did you get this? Is it fiberglass? Did you make it yourself?

Any comments or further information, especially after all of your experience with it? Much appreciated, thanks.
Yes I made it. My goal was to hard mount the cooler to the engine mount using adel clamps. Tilted back a bit to get the air heading out of the cowl. Then I used foam to mock up the transition to the rear baffle. Laid up fiberglass.

Since I live with my plane, I took some pictures for you of the mounting setup I use. This has survived 2k hours and I believe will survive another 2k hours with no problems.

Starting from the top left. You can see some alum angle bolted to the cooler, and the first of 4 mounting locations.


Moving to the top right, this is hard mounted to the firewall.


Next is the bottom center.




And finally the bottom right, which is hard to get a picture of. There is a downtube of the engine mount in the center of the picture and the mount is to the left of the coax. This is a top down view of the bottom right mount.



And the same mount looking up from the bottom.



I hope this was useful. Note: This engine mount is for a Super 8. Different geometry. All other mounts are different. Exactly where you mount and how you attached will be a bit different but the concepts are the same.
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