I was just reading through the accident reports and came across a guy who had engine probelms on the first flight of his RV-6. It said that he expierienced a rising oil temp and a loss of power. He landed short of the runway and the aricraft sustained substantial damage. He had changed the oil and filter on the Chevrolet v-6 car engine that he had put in the plane just before the flight.

He survived. What an awful feeling to crash your REAL plane on its test flight.