jcaplins
Well Known Member
I'm doing some planning, and would like to hear some stories and experiences for those who have pulled an engine(/prop) from a donor aircraft for use on your RV. I hear talk about it, but does anyone actually do it?
ex: pulled a engine, prop, accessories, and maybe avionics, instruments, from a perfectly good Mooney or Cherokee 180 with 4000 hours and 1000 SMOH; bolted it up to your RV6,7,8. and now happily flying around (or not).
How did it work out for you? Financially worth it or not? Adapting systems from one aircraft to the RV? Selling off parts of the donor plane to recoup some costs? Pitfalls and gotchas? Anything else you would like to add?
I may start some threads about buying/rebuilding a salvage or used engine vs buying new, so that discussion doesn't need to happen here.
Thanks!
ex: pulled a engine, prop, accessories, and maybe avionics, instruments, from a perfectly good Mooney or Cherokee 180 with 4000 hours and 1000 SMOH; bolted it up to your RV6,7,8. and now happily flying around (or not).
How did it work out for you? Financially worth it or not? Adapting systems from one aircraft to the RV? Selling off parts of the donor plane to recoup some costs? Pitfalls and gotchas? Anything else you would like to add?
I may start some threads about buying/rebuilding a salvage or used engine vs buying new, so that discussion doesn't need to happen here.
Thanks!