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@amillet absolutely! Drop a line when you're around. @teejayevans I'm not certain exactly. I believe the work is just the pistons and the STC paperwork, and this is just a guess, but I think the total is probably between $2k and $5k. But, since this requires pulling all of the cylinders off, it's the kind of thing you'd want an engine shop to do (e.g. at overhaul). The plane is too new to me to know whether it's worth it. It runs a little hotter than the other Mooneys I've been in, but that could just be due to worn baffles and, it could be timed to 25 degrees BTDC. I can keep the CHTs in the green with some attention but will have that checked out next time I'm in the shop, and that may make it a little more useful. Ask me later this year and I'll probably have a better opinion about the STC.

@xcrmckenna nah, I flew with Kory. 1021K was down for an engine overhaul while I was getting my hours in. 161MP may actually be down for long-term repairs now that 1021K is back in the air. @Hank beat me by mere seconds

Firewall Forward out of Loveland, CO offers it as an STC: http://thenewfirewallforward.com/tnfwf_2012-2013_new_006.htm It's a stock IO-360 crankcase and cylinders with high-compression pistons out of an HIO-360 plus some limitations and placards on maximum MP under certain conditions.

Thanks both! :-D

Hi, everyone! I'm a new Mooney owner -- I recently bought and ferried N201XG, a 1978 201, from its last owner in Texas to my base in Seattle. I decided to buy a plane back in September of last year and settled pretty quickly on an M20J. I did a little bit of looking at Bonanzas and Super Vikings but, as I'm sure you know, the M20 (and in particular the J model) had a really attractive mix of efficiency and speed and features. It also fit my mission profile pretty well, which was generally 0-2 passengers for quick flights within a 400nm radius. The fact that the M20 isn't immensely popular also appealed to me. I daily drove a Porsche 914 for years and I like something that's a little quirky and unusual. I was really methodical about selecting a 201, and have a spreadsheet filled with details on every M20J I found on the market in the last few months, organized by a scale of 1-3: "1" planes were exactly what I was looking for, "2" planes would do if I couldn't find a suitable "1" plane, and "3" planes you probably couldn't pay me to take. I did pricing workups on most and ended up with analyses of varying levels of 68 aircraft in all. N201XG was one of 8 aircraft I took a really close look at, and after spending a lot of time with remarkably patient and helpful selling broker, I bought the plane and moved it from its last base in Texas to its current home in Seattle. It turns out that N201XG spent 16 years in the Puget Sound area, from 1983 through 1999. Some of the maintenance logs show entries from Galvin Flying, the local flight school (and MSC before they got out of the repair business) where I met my insurance minimums in a rental M20J, N161MP. After that, N201XG spent 17 years in new England and 2 in Texas. This plane has a recently overhauled engine with the Firewall Forward 225hp STC, which was previously installed in the plane in 1987, then removed in 1999, before being reinstalled in 2017. It's an amazing plane and I've had a blast on local flights. I'm looking forward to expanding my radius as the weather warms and I work through the small list of remaining minor maintenance issues. Feels pretty neat to have an aircraft that has such a long history in my neighborhood.