I couldn’t find a listing of all the RV-8 Mods. Here’s what I could find. I will be adding to this over time, and there are probably lots of ideas that I’ve missed. I won’t be adding all of these to the plane I’m building, but I wanted to have them all listed here in one place to make them easier to remember.
- Gear tower access panels or holes.
- Nut plate mounted rear floors (for inspections)
- Showplanes Fastback Conversion Kit
- Showplanes Cowling
- James Aircraft Cowling (and plenum, and induction)
- SkyDesigns Airfoil Landing Gear
- SkyDesigns Carbon Fiber Wheel Pants (allows 6″ wheels and more clearance for rough surfaces)
- JD Air Tailwheel Link & Light Weight Wheel
- Doug Bell Tailwheel Fork
- AircraftSpruce stainless steel heater bypass
- Foreward mounting smoke system tank
- AeroCanopy tinted canopy
- Andair Fuel Selector
- Flyboy Accessories Throttle Quadrant
- Forward Baggage Door Strut (post and thread)
For aerobatics..
- Softie Mini Parachute for both flight testing and IAC competitions.
- Raven Inverted Oil System
- Whirlwind 330-3B Counter weighted Propeller