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New Cowling
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 10:13 pm
by 54170b
Hey guys
I wanted to modernize my cowling, and my design basically looked just like this!:
Seems the guy beat me to it but.... Who is he? Would love to go over it with him.
Kyle
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 4:33 am
by pdb
I have a 1959 172 cowl that looks like that and its made of a slightly heavier gauge metal as well.
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 12:17 am
by 54170b
Sorry Pete but you're wayyyyy off! Look how yours drops below the boot cowl 4" and this one goes nowhere but up, and is missing the large plenum on the bottom.
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 1:01 am
by pdb
I really like the look of the one you posted but I wasn't sure if you needed one to house an O-300 or something beefier like an IO-390.
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 3:34 am
by Ryan Smith
The one Kyle pictured has an XP Mods IO-360, I believe.
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 4:07 am
by kylegreen229
I have personal photos of that plane when he came to Boise this past summer. He lives/works up in Coeur d'alene, ID. Very nice 170B, it is a fiberglass custom cowl that encloses a Continental IO-360. I forget his name but he was also very nice.
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 8:54 pm
by 54170b
He wasn't the selkirk guy was he Kyle?
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:54 am
by hilltop170
Arash-
Did you get any pictures?
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 3:13 pm
by Ryan Smith
Aryana wrote:I wasnt able to snap a pic...I just caught him for a moment as he was leaving the fuel pump and he showed me the cowling and told me about buying it a year ago and getting his PPL in the plane.
Remember a name or N number?
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:38 pm
by cessna170bdriver
Ryan Smith wrote:Aryana wrote:I wasnt able to snap a pic...I just caught him for a moment as he was leaving the fuel pump and he showed me the cowling and told me about buying it a year ago and getting his PPL in the plane.
Remember a name or N number?
Ryan, I sent you the contact info of the STC holder via Messenger.
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:00 pm
by hilltop170
Miles, did you forget to cc. the rest of us?
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:57 pm
by Ryan Smith
I guess I'll survive, Arash. Wasn't this guy out of curiosity, was it?
https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5757/2958 ... 111b_b.jpg
It looks like it's just a really well-filled and massaged cowling with a Del-Air nose bowl. Sorry I can't embed an image on here...I get an error saying that it can't determine dimensions. I've all but given up on images on this website.
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:04 pm
by Ryan Smith
Aryana wrote:Ryan, that's him!
You are a google master...
As for images, if you're using an apple device this app makes it a breeze for resizing images to meet forum requirements for total file size and pixels.
Simple Resize by tekunodo.
https://appsto.re/us/7HxIt.i
I need to get back to studying for my CFI instead of worrying about random 170 pictures I've seen.
Re: New Cowling
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:08 pm
by GAHorn
I hate those ugly cheek-bumps on conversions. I guess on wide-deck Lycs it's necessary. Another reason to opt for a TCM IO360.
