I bought my now deceaced IO-400 back in 2016.
New Engine Prices are CRAZY.
New Engine Prices are CRAZY.
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Old Engine Prices
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BoydBirchler
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Strange that the IO-360 and IO-320 are the same price.
I paid $26,000 for an Eagle Engines Extreme IO-360-B1A2 back in 2006. I'm in the middle of replacing it now, it lasted 18 years / 700 hours before starting to produce metal.
It certainly is very expensive now.
It certainly is very expensive now.
Yup, and if your buying with the Cdn peso its eye watering. And add in possible Tarrifs,,,
NavyS3BNFO
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Just for fun, I went to the Vans website and priced a new YO-360-A1A (non-TB) to compare apples to apples. A new engine is $44,719. That equates to a 6.4% annualized rate of inflation from 2016 on engine prices. CPI over the same period was 3.2%.
We are really going to need to switch to an automotive based engine at some point. Manufacturing of things like castings and forgings in such small volumes as we have for lycoming engines will never be cost effective. The entire world industry is geared for making things by the hundreds of thousands. If you only order a few hundred a year the prices will continue to be really high. There really isn't a good way around that. We might be able to replace the castings with metal 3d prints but the forged parts like pistons, crankshaft etc. Will always be really expensive in the quantities we buy and it will just keep getting worse.
$26,000 for 700 hours equates to $37.14 per hour. If an engine made TBO 2000 hours at $37.14 per hour it would cost $74,280 and that is expensive too. Any idea why the Eagle Engines did not make it to TBO assumed 2000 hours?
For the first 14 years the plane was in a heated and air conditioned hangar attached to my house so it was very disappointing that the engine started producing metal. The metal was analyzed and found to be consistent with cam shaft and lifter material. After engine removal 2 cam lobes and lifters were found to be at fault.
No idea why it didn't make it to TBO.
