The majority of this work was completed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory. However, the bedding of the hinges to the fuselage was left to us. This was done while the plane was inverted to complete the strake close-out work, and involved micro-glass in the hinge recess and then bedding […]
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The door hinge installation was completed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory. The only portions of the work left to us was counter-sinking the screw holes, bonding the hinges to the doors with structural adhesive, and fairing the hinge to the inside of the door and filling the door screw […]
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Before the mounts can be installed, the firewall protection (a layer of Nomex covered with stainless steel) needs to be installed. First I created a paper template of the firewall to get the shape correct. Firewall Template Next I made a rigid template out of poster-board to trace to the stainless. Poster-Board Template Then I […]
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Fitting the cooling plenum to the engine. Note that the rear-most set of two ignition coils from the previous pictures had to be moved forward to clear the plenum and cowling. Note that once the plenum was fitted, and the runners where sanded slightly to allow them to slide into place, we started to fit […]
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After we flipped the plane for Fuel Strake completion in Chapter 9, we went ahead and fitted the overhead fresh air duct since it was convenient. Special Report – ROLLOVER. Next we fit the lights (from a late model Jetta) and eyeball vents. The beauty ring on the vents were too big so we trimmed them, […]
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Since the premolded engine cooling NACA ducts don’t seem to be covered elsewhere in the manual, I’ll include them here. Much of the cutting was completed during Head Start, though I did cut the overheard fresh air duct at home. Then they’re all fitted up and held in place. The engine naca’s had been set […]
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