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We don't all have the disposable cash Mr. Ford invested into his cub to make it light... So some ideas and methods that work well. My budget...

Start at the dinner table. Unless your a 120lb guy already, you best dollar to weight reduction is quit eating bread and drinking beer. Sent...

My Dad built his dream hangar a few years ago, 54x60 metal building with a raised center where it looks like a fancy barn w/ 14 ft walls, full slab,...

JIC fittings from a hydraulics shop will work if AN fittings not available. They're 37 deg. The automotive SAE flare is 45 deg. Here's more...

I’m very glad we’re not doing a ground up. MT12 did that for me in 2012 ; ) but it was one of a few whew moments we’ve had doing this deep annual....

Raised by wolves has a very light nice 160 hp 18. Ask him how hard his 3 member gets flying a C90 Pa11 Glenn

If you have never flown any Cub type that is really light you can't understand what a delight a lite Cub is to fly. Not talking take off performance...

While doing a ground up restoration there are literally hundreds of those “whew” moments, especially if it’s a 12. Scariest ones are cutting the...

Duh, it's easier to make the cub lighter

Suziki, Yamaha, Honda, BMW, and other motorcycles have offered variable exhaust valve flappers for years....EXUP valves Some's for noise reduction...

Whew

3 or 4 years ago the top 5 out of 15 in the bush class at Valdez all came in within a combined distance (takeoff and landing) within 9 ft of each...

I'm always working on the pilot weight reduction! It was mentioned in your first post; the battery. EarthX certified battery is 5.4 lbs. That's...

So I'm kind of getting to the understanding that they fly fine regardless. Part of the motivation for removing the vacuum and instruments is that I...

Don is quite possibly the smartest guy here. Why do we leave no stone unturned to minimize every extra ounce of weight? Now we add Bushwheels,...

Not sure where you are located but a friend of mine has a sawmill in Virginia and sent this to me. He is getting about double from a year ago.

You can see his light weight seat at the bottom of the page http://www.carbonconceptsak.com/products.html

We got it : ) and I can now see what you meant by ‘centering the horn’. Both our methods achieve the same thing, I just think we had a language...

Curious how many of those frosted wing test pilots are still alive today.

Whew that's a lot of help, thanks folks! I hadn't considered the floorboards, new ones would add a lot to to the plane aesthetically. Also really...

Ha! The drive back to the airplane didn’t allow for that. Sent from my iPhone using SuperCub.Org

what ever you end up doing I'd like to see some b4 and after panel pics especially. I went through the same process 6 years ago and regret not...

Still can Glenn

What’s the weight difference between the carbon fiber floor boards and 1/4” birch?

Aluminum lift struts will take a bunch of weight off right away. Ditch the vac system, does it have old radios? Get some trig, and use the built in...

After about 1700 hours the internal stainless mesh that holds back the muffler packing loosened up a bit, so instead of a perfect cylinder it was...

What about the aft tube? I just noticed on a friends cub that there is a tiny bit of play that if you grab the tip of the horizontal stab and lift,...

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