hehehe sorry about that. You're the second person in a week to try to squish my avatar. It's even caught me once or twice when I first started using it.

When you shortened your bipe, were you doing it to fit the engine into it (thereby leaving the prop in the standard position) or to reduce required tail weight (and moving the prop further back from standard in the process)?

Oh.. for da Rock... the skybolt has its tank pressed up hard against the firewall, and I've actually echo'd a lot of the newer ARFs by cutting a hole in it for the tank neck to protrude through, so a little extra fuel line length shouldn't be a problem.

For Gray Beard... yah I actually posited the same question in the Skybolt clubhouse thread but got no response. I figured I'd get more action from a new thread. It worked.

Thanks to all for your responses. They seem to agree with my guess that it won't matter... the nose of the plane isn't a particularly aerodynamic part of the plane so it shouldn't notice being a little longer. Guess I'd better start shopping for some longer mounting bolts.