On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 01:11:55 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Could you list these please? I'm interested in trying to afford a few
of these in the near future. Also, any specs on what you get for
speed would be great.

As others have mentioned, there are many good sources of information
regarding Cherokee speed mods. A short list of ours include:

- Fancy pants
- Flap gap seals
- Aileron gap seals
- Stabilator gap seals
- Fuselage-to-wing fairing
- Position light removed from rudder -- special fairing installed
- Landing light faired over with plexiglas

Regarding their effectiveness, I've been told that the larger-engined
Cherokees seem to benefit more from them. We flight-plan for 142 knots, and
will easily walk away from a stock retractable Arrow.

Of course, I'll be burning 15 gallons per hour to do it (to his 10 gph) --
but there's no free lunch...


Thanks Jay. These are all the mods I've heard of, although the
landing light fairing is new to me (and you said this was a short
list?). I normally flight plan at 135 Kts and always seem to beat it.
Good to know you're around 142. Your 15 gph sounds high to me. I get
about 12.6 in cruise at about 75% power. Does this include a safety
margin?

Thanks also to the poster who directed me to the 235 site. I hadn't
been there in a while, and learned I should look at my rigging first.
Not exactly how to go about that, but it may give me a couple knots
for free.

I'm not really looking to go alot faster, but more importantly
increase my range by being able to fly at a reduced power setting at
what I currently flight plan for. I've got a couple destinations that
are just out of reach (30 - 45 minutes) that I'd like to bring into
reach w/o a fuel stop.

Thanks again.
z