Carby Inlet Scoop

[John_McF]

Hi All,

I have a PA-22/20, which has a weird little fibreglass inlet aire scoop. Doesn't look good and the pop rivets holding it on are working.

search for VH-PUT to seel an image of it.

I would like to put on something a little more Pacer acceptable.

Does anyone have a drawings/material spec for a replacement? I have a oi/foam element filter bolter to teh inside face of the arrangement inside the cowl - Appears to look similar to other Pacers's I have seen images of.

Regards
John

[Steve Pierce]

This was the best picture I could find.
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I am not sure if there is a drawing on the Short Wing Piper Club Drawing CD or not. I use .032 2024T3 aluminum. Piper used 3003 which is soft and tends to crack in the corners over the years. You can make a pattern out of poster board to get the correct fit. Here are some pictures of a Clipper cowling I built that might help. https://picasaweb.google.com/1147188...lipperCowling#

[andya]

seems like steves aircraft up in oregon has a link on their website that shows how to build cow. I am not sure but I think it shows how to do the carb air inlet.

[John_McF]

Yep, thats a good picture of it - very un Pacer like...... Plus its startign to fall off.

Thanks for the picasa link - pretty much exactly what I'm looking for.

Now, whilst I have you looking at my cowl - Have you ever seen a Cowl exit like whats fitted? Currently it fixed in place, although the exit is mounte by a hinge, im sure they were thinking of adjustable, in flight, but never got around to it.

Any idea's if this is a existing STC or similar.

Regards
John

[Steve Pierce]

I have never seen an adjustable cowl flap STC on a Pacer. Jim Younkin was going to do it on the Mystery Pacer but never got around to it.