Frenchy; I have a comment. It is purely a personal observation, many may disagree entirely, and I certainly ain't no Treehugger that feels early Piper airplanes should be "left alone" because they were the best they could be when they were built. On top of all that, I last of all wish to start an argument!
But the way I feel is that you might ask yourself whether you might be "spoiling" the nicest flying Super Cub design ever built. Not the "Leanest, Meanest BullDog on the block", not the "get off quickest, haul the Oats Weightliftin' Monster in the Backwoods or out on the Tundra". Certainly not a High Performance Cub any Wildman would be Proud to be seen at the concrete airport in...But in MY opinion the sweetest flying of the breed (and moreso on a set of Federal SC-2s or A1500As. At least when you get older, you can still push it back in the hangar!). For some reason, the combination of hp, weight, flight controls all adds up to "sweet flyin'". Of all the Super Cubs, the 18-95 No Flap in the Bone Stock configuration is the one I would rather be in when Surveying My Realm at about 500 ft agl on a quiet evening just before the Sun goes home for the day. Anything you can do to that airplane will make it do SOMETHING better. But the one thing you will LOSE is that sweet flying combination. Almost ANY other model Cub would do the same thing specialized things with mod after mod piled on top, but only the unbalanced tailed, no flapped -18 flies the way it does. That may not make a bit of difference to you, but somewhere out there is somebody looking for a real nice example of a stock PA-18 (no Dash Number) with a Cont C-90 and a lot more people that SHOULD BE rather than wanting all the Bells and Whistles. I'd say a Smith would be a better candidate, for sure (for more reasons than this "lame one", too).
Man if I were going to do anything like that, I would KEEP every stock piece I unbolted off of it safe for "another day"! But it's yours, and I really have nothing to say about it, except that is my opinion.
