Wasn't sure if I should put this here or in the homebuilding section...I did paper, rock, scissors with myself.

Have an older 150 and want to do something fun with it. Basically want to tear it apart and turn it into something Bearhawk Patrol-ish. Wondering if anyone knows of any designs out there that used 150 wings. Know the old Bakeng Duece used 150 wings as an option. Know there were a few designs that stretched Pacer fuselages and such...Blanton had the V6 STOL...but it was basically a Ford engine in a Pacer if I remember. Guess most people kept their 150's as 150's?

Any ideas?

Okay, still looking at this 150 and wondering what to do with it. Basically I have nothing in it money-wise and hate to watch it sit. It is essentially a bone stock 150 F I believe. Think the only changes to the plane was a radio upgrade to something "modern" in the early eighties...and VG's and BIG drooped tips in the early 2000's. Has excellent slow flight manners. Say I decided to keep this thing and spend a "little" money on it...making it lighter...what options are out there? This thing still has the monster starter on it...probably weighs 50-60 pounds...and a gill lead acid battery...Know skytec makes a lightweight starter, are there any options for a lighter battery in the certified world? Coming from homebuilts here...

Yamaha 150hp 4 stroke snowmobile engine. Someone on barnstormers advertises an adapter to mate it up to a rotax gearbox. A guy on the rotary wing forum put it in an ultralight, claims installed weight was only 150lbs. That would turn some heads at a fly in.

Odyssey is your lightweight battery for certified planes. Small light weight and lots of cranking power. I have one on my 180 and it turns over the 0-470 and 3 blade hartzell No problem, so an 0-200 would be peanuts for it.
I like noodles idea of a Yamaha/arctic cat snowmobile engine. Lots of power and light weight. I'm sure there's some used ones kicking around for decent $$$.

Just thinking through the options if I kept it certified...knocking some weight out of it is always a good plan. Now I'm a homebuilder at heart, so if I found a good plan for using the wings and maybe the tail feathers on a steel tube fuselage tandem I'd be all over it

Know I'll have to get an A&P involved at some point but what is the requirement for the battery swap? Is that a buy a STC type thing, make the changes, and revise the weight and balance? Have been in the homebuilder world for 15 years...gonna have to read up on what I can do as an owner vs. what I have to get an A&P to do...

I bought a FWF battery box and it came with the odyssey STC. Mine is the Altee dodge. But you can get them from burls as well I think. I'm not sure what you guys can all get away with in the US, but in Canada I my AME did it all. But that is the process, buy the parts, make the changes, weigh the plane.

I installed an Odyssey battery on my C150/150TD some years back and got a field approval to just stick it in the stock battery box. That's the easiest way, saves some weight and maybe a little money over a G- or RG-25.



C150 tailwheel or Lycoming conversions are a lotta work and/or a lotta money, but they can be fun to fly.
There was an airplane that someone built up in southern Oregon a few years back called the Derringer-- a Pacer matched with a set of Cessna wings (or at least Cessna flaps) as I recall.
Maybe the easiest and bestest thing to do with the 150 is to just fly it as is. Or sell it to someone who wants a 150 and use the money to buy something else.

If you want good advice fro people who know, have been there and done that, go to the Cessna 150-152 Club forum. http://www.cessna150-152club.com/

Or drop in to the annual fly-in in @ KCWI in Clinton, IA July 22, 23, & 24th 2015. You'll see every kind of 150 & 152 imaginable and every mod you can think of is on one airplane or another!