There are many choices that need to be made during the construction of an RV-10. These are some of the choices that I have made or will make on my RV-10.

Engine

My engine is a Lycoming experimental IO-540 from Barrett Precision Engines. This is what I have:

New IO-540 Lycoming kit engine with roller cam and followers, new Lycoming engine driven fuel pump, new Slick magnetos and harness, new Champion spark plugs, new lightweight Skytec starter, Airflow Performance FM-200 fuel system, all engine fittings, silicone rocker cover gaskets, balanced to 1 gram inch, cylinders re-worked to improve volumetric efficiency and correct valve to seat geometry, painted your choice of color, assembled and tested for 1 1/2 hours with minute to minute printout of test cell report. Included is 9:1 compression pistons, and chrome package.

Overhead Cabin Console

At Sun-N-Fun 2006 I purchased an overhead console from Accuracy Avionics.

Door Closer Like on the Lancair Columbia

Door Closer

Pitot Static Ports

I am using the pitot static ports supplied by Safe Air 1. It is a complete kit including fittings and tubing. The static port are tapped to accept 1/8" NPT fittings. The kit includes a 90 degree fitting for each port. This will relieve the stress on the tubing and a more solid connection then those with a barbed connection. This kit is (hopefully) complete including fittings and tubing. One less thing to research and purchase. Other suppliers are:

Combination Tail Light / Strobe

Van's supplies Whelen lighting system. I ordered the A500-14 Combination tail light / strobe

to install in the rudder fairing. I will probably go with some sort of LED nav light system. Still need to decide. By getting only the tail light / strobe I can finish the fairings and defer my decision on the rest of the lighting scheme.

Rudder Cable Fairings

Avery rudder cable fairings are also sold by Aircraft Spruce (part no. 12-00635). I was already ordering primer from ACS so I added the fairings to the order. I purchased 6. Two for the rudder cables and the others to use inside the fuselage. I will let you know how many I actually used.

Dan Checkoway shows how to fabricate your own on his web site.


 


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