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Jims RV-8
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Date: 7-7-2020
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Number of Hours: 6.00
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Brief Description: Engine Build - Day 1
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I drove up to Tulsa, OK to visit Barrett Precision Engines. The story begins almost 6 years ago - I met Allen and Rhonda Barrett back in July, 2014, at the Airventure RV social. We discussed engine building philosophy and all sorts of things as the evening wore on that night. Since then I have only been impressed with what I have heard over the years as well as phone calls and visits during subsequent Sun-n-Fun and Airventure visits. They are a small, custom shop that focuses on high quality, smooth running engines and that works for me. There are other good aviation engine builders out there - but I obviously think Barrett is the best engine builder for me.
I had already selected all of the accessories and options ahead of time so that when I arrived all the parts were there. I am going with the IO-360-X (X for experimental), 9:1 compression, 2 E-Mag P-Mags, Fuel Injection by Airflow Performance, one main and one backup alternator by B & C and of course, the paint color is Corvette - Sunset Orange!
I arrived Tuesday morning for the start of the build, shook a few hands and toured the facility as Connie (my engine builder) was just finishing up with all the measurements and pre-build duties. She had already done all the weight and measurements of the rotating parts and had my rotating parts balanced almost perfectly even! Anyway, I took a few GB of pictures and videos and thoroughly enjoyed myself the entire time I was there. The whole Barrett team is awesome and treated me like family from the very start. Connie was the perfect person to build my engine. She is very detail oriented and I really appreciated the extra care she took in building my engine... but I am getting ahead of myself...
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here's where we started...
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Monte Barrett double checks Connie's work at each critical point
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All done for day #1 - Connie covering (tucking in) all the parts for the night
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