I got a reply from Will James regarding a cowling for my M2.  Although
they make a very nice looking Rotary cowling for the RV series of
aircraft, they are not interested in creating a similar cowling for the
Mustang II.  Makes business sense I suppose -- the don't sell many
Mustang II cowls for the lycoming version they currently support.  But,
it does leave me in the lurch none the less.  So, I guess I am going to
have to roll my own somehow.  Disappointing, since I was hoping to not
end up spending weeks on this issue.  So much for being flying by
spring, I'm afraid.

I could get a standard Mustang II cowling and start modifying it, but I
hate to spend that much only to start major hacking on it.  I kind of
get the feeling that I could start from nothing & spend only a bit more
time, and lots less cash.  Oh well.

Mark Supinski

Its not that hard Mark. I'll work with you. We will do cowl
in Rhino until we get one you like the looks of. After that I send
you section drawings or patterns and you cut sections out of
door skins or 1/4 inch ply. You fill the spaces between the
plywood with foam and fair it out. You than lay up a layer
of glass. Now comes the hard part. Take it to a body shop and
have them fair it in with Bondo. They are much better at that
than you will ever be. When you get it back you wax it and shoot
it with PVC. Then make a female mold.

Or lay it up with several layers of glass and take it to the body
shop for finishing. Now you have a somewhat heavier cowl but you
are done.