New Cowling

54170b · Post by **54170b** » Thu Nov 17, 2016 10:13 pm

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

pdb · Post by **pdb** » Fri Nov 18, 2016 4:33 am

I have a 1959 172 cowl that looks like that and its made of a slightly heavier gauge metal as well.

54170b · Post by **54170b** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 12:17 am

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.

pdb · Post by **pdb** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 1:01 am

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.

Ryan Smith · Post by **Ryan Smith** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 3:34 am

The one Kyle pictured has an XP Mods IO-360, I believe.

kylegreen229 · Post by **kylegreen229** » Mon Nov 28, 2016 4:07 am

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.

54170b · Post by **54170b** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 8:54 pm

He wasn't the selkirk guy was he Kyle?

hilltop170 · Post by **hilltop170** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:54 am

Arash-
Did you get any pictures?

Ryan Smith · Post by **Ryan Smith** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 3:13 pm

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?

cessna170bdriver · Post by **cessna170bdriver** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:38 pm

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.

hilltop170 · Post by **hilltop170** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:00 pm

Miles, did you forget to cc. the rest of us?

Ryan Smith · Post by **Ryan Smith** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:57 pm

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.

Ryan Smith · Post by **Ryan Smith** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:04 pm

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.

Post by **GAHorn** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:08 pm

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.

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