Piper Wheel Pants Question

In article ,
(Martin Kosina) writes:

You'll be quite happy with the 9.12 knot increase from no wheel pants, and a
6.95 increase over the old style Piper wheel pants.

Well, from their own desciption, it looks like the difference between
'78 style Piper pants (what he would get with item #2449226814) and
the Speed Pants is only 3mph ?

My understanding re most of the speed enhancing is that they say "UP TO" bla
bla increase. That is, they guarantee no more but you can get less!

In flying without the nose pant on my 79 Archer, I can see no difference in
speed, climb or handling.

Chuck

Somebody wrote:

:You'll be quite happy with the 9.12 knot increase from no wheel pants, and a
: 6.95 increase over the old style Piper wheel pants.
:

Then, Chuck wrote:

: In flying without the nose pant on my 79 Archer, I can see no difference in
: speed, climb or handling.

In flying without the 3 old-style wheel pants on my '68 Cherokee 180, I
have found zero speed difference. According to the "Speed Pants" web site,
I should find (9.12 - 6.95 = 2.17) 2.17 knots or roughly 3 MPH of increased
speed. This makes me suspicious of any and all speed mod claims.

Spending $2500 to get a zero to 9 knot speed improvement seems like
an unwise use of $$$ to me, so I have not gone this route. I will save
the $2500 for my Turbo Mooney....
--
Aaron Coolidge (N9376J), as seen on Jay's website.