Dan Heath wrote: > If you want to widen the fuse, why not just make the firewall > proportionally > larger, and extend the length proportionally longer?
That would alleviate about a third of the extra stress, since the firewall is about 29" aft of the spinner backplate, and the trailing edge of the wing is 90". I was assuming you'd widen the firewall and make your own cowling also, otherwise it'd look pretty funny from the front end with a stock cowling grafted onto it. If I could break mine at 3", a plane with a stretched firewall could break at 4.5". I'd hoped to use a stock KR2S cowling on mine, so I didn't widen my firewall, but since I ended up making my own cowling anyway, I should have. I remade my cowling to blend it into the fuselage better, both from a side view and a top view standpoint. So widening the fuselage has its penalties, but leaving it stock width is not very attractive either, if you ever want to carry passengers. I guess the nice thing about leaving it narrow is that most folks will only want to fly with you one time... Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
