Defogger Controls

Here you can see our new switches and switch panel. Also, here’s a shot of the new hangar brushes, just because they don’t fit really anywhere. Finally, here’s the finished defogger duct – it just needs to be mounted and wired now. Carling Contura II Switch Defogger ready to be installed Defogger and Heather Switch […]

Electric Windshield Defogger Installation

So, I’m an advocate for electrical heating lately, and so one natural outcome is to finally hook up my windshield defogger. To that end, I picked up a 200W defroster for cars. As you can see here, I’ve made a foam plug to layup a transition from the device to SCAT ducting (I already had […]

Door Pin Covers, Part I

December, 2009 Here we’re finally installing the door cover panels. Since we’re going to be looking to have the upholstery installed this spring we need to finalize some of these details so they can do their work. Here we’ve used structural epoxy to mount the attach points, which were previously made (see below). Because of […]

Interior Door Cover, Part I

The door cover panels are pre-molded by the factory. There’s a hump where the door handle comes through, but figuring out where exactly was a bit challenging, so I ended up needing to close up my first hole a bit. Also, stealing an idea from my buddy Andy, I used left-over foam with a light BID […]

Headset Hook

OK, so it’s not a headliner, but it’s close. Here we stole an idea from the factory, where they’d installed a small bar to hang the headsets from. Pretty slick if you ask me. Headset Hangar For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et […]

Luggage Shelf, Part II

The instruction on the rear cover panel are pretty sparse, to say the least, basically saying that there should be one. I’ve decided to go with a “luggage shelf” directly on top of the fuel sump. On top of the whale-tail that has the end of the tube and bell-crank arrangement for the aileron […]