Rear Baggage Upholstery Covers

Still clearing up small details. We cut the lip off of my overhead switch panel and laid a custom upholstery cover from it onto the windscreen to better match the side covers. We’re also finalizing the NACA engine runners and plenum. I’m using Andy’s slip joint idea to seal them to the stubs. I’m also finishing up the rear […]

Luggage Shelf, Part IV

We’re finalizing all of the upholstery covers for the interior. Here I’m working on the side extensions to the false bulkhead. Once they’re done, I’m going to make a fiberglass cover from in front of the fuel tank vents back on to these “wings”. This will complete the interior pieces ready for covering. False bulkhead […]

Installing the Door Seal

I opted not to use the factory door seal, since I didn’t think theirs looked very robust, and I’d heard of a lot leaky Velocitys. I ended up getting seal from Avtek, and I really like it. It makes the airplane much quieter, and our hose test seems to indicate that they seal, but we’ll see […]

NACA Runner Slip Joint Seal

Here you can see we’ve glassed Triax over the stub-to-runner seam. I saw Andy do this and liked it. However, after it was cured I didn’t think it mated or “pushed up” enough on the seam to seal it. So I decided to retape the runner, lay some BID on there, schmooey across that to […]

Brake Bleeding

Brake bleeding is an often-discussed area of discontent amongst builders. Whether you have the toe brakes or not, it’s very hard to get all of the bubbles out of the brake system. Starting at the brake and back-bleeding seems to work best, with a pressure bleeder, but I’d like to put in a plug for […]

Switches and Circuit Protection

Well, from a couple of years of pushing my starter button, I find that it’s starting to have fine spider web cracks radiate from around the button. I guess we push too hard. Here we’ve made a support out of angle AL that has been notched to let the button pass through while resting up […]