Well, I am just a good weather day away from maiden flight of the impact. Looks like Friday is supposed to be good weather. If so I am taking it out after work.
As far as weight goes I weighed it this morning ready to fly minus wheel pants and its coming in at 9.70. I usually don't put wheel pants on because I am always flying on a grass field. So even with the wheel pants I would be sub 10. I could have easily reached 9.5 by going with a different mount. I am running the Hyde ARIAS mount that weighs about 6.5 oz. If I would have went with the AR mount and nose ring I could have lost about 2.5 oz plus the weight of the beefed up fire wall for the ARIAS. I could have also saved 2 oz by using JR 9411 in the wings and JR Mini digitals in the tail and a micro digital on the throttle. As I stated earlier in this thread, I am by no means an expert and this is only my third pattern plane, and first composite. The first 2 were bought from other flyers almost ready to fly. All in all it was a pretty easy build. I am glad that I had the expertise of a very kind and generous FAI flyer. He helped me set the wing and stab incidences and was there to answer all my stupid questions. Below is the equipment that I have used.

Composite-ARF Impact (Impact Paint Scheme)
Mintor 170 w/ 60 degree rise Header/ Mintor New Aluminum pipe
2@ DB Pipe mounts
Composite-ARF 3.5in Carbon Spinner w/ APC 17x13
Dubro 20 oz fuel tank
3@ Hitec 5975 HB Corless digital/Composite gears (Ailerons,Ruddder)
3@ Hitec 5245 Mini Digitals (Elevators, Throttle
2200 ma Li-ion battery with Jacco regulator/switch
JR Ball links w/ titanium pushrods on all control surfaces. (I made new control horns out of .074 Uni Carbon to handle the load of the ball links)
MK tail wheel assembly
DB Light wheels.

(I just put the plane on a different scale and came up at 9.8 lb)