Vans RV8 pilot reported that the engine failed during cruise flight.

Attributes
ACN	1477581
Time
Date	201708
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	RV-8
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Direct Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	Engine
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Flight Engineer Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60 Flight Crew Total 22000 Flight Crew Type 2000
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical

Narrative:

At cruise; had increasing oil temp and decreasing RPM. Engine started running rough and continued to lose RPM. Engine soon froze. I picked out a road and made a dead stick landing. No one was hurt onboard or on the ground; no damage was done on landing to anything. EMS responded.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Vans RV8 pilot reported that the engine failed during cruise flight.

Narrative: At cruise; had increasing oil temp and decreasing RPM. Engine started running rough and continued to lose RPM. Engine soon froze. I picked out a road and made a dead stick landing. No one was hurt onboard or on the ground; no damage was done on landing to anything. EMS responded.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.