I just measured mine. Top is 43 inches wide. When I bent the side I let the stresses pre form the bottom. With a little tweaking the bottom is 37 1/2". I kept the firewall stock and feel the look still has a stream line look not the pregnant guppy look.
Steven Phillabaum KR2S; 5048; corvair; Auburn, Alabama ---- Dan Heath <da...@alltel.net> wrote: > I have yet to see a completed KR with vertical sides, so you are still in > the first stages of "experimental" there. So, do you want to experiment, or > build a KR?. Mine was not widened, but if I were to do it, I would add the > same amount of width to the bottom, as I was adding to the top, just to keep > from adding any more stress factors. > > -------Original Message------- > > Is the general consensus to leave the > bottom of the fuselage the stock width and bend out the top longerons, or to > bend both top and bottom out to the 40" and thus have perfectly vertical > sides? >see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
