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January, 2004

January 1, 2004 - 1 hours
Today I trimmed and epoxied the new inlet duct parts that I made to the top cowling. I am going to need to do a lot of filling and sanding to get them perfect but for now at least I have enough of it done so that I can finish the baffles.

January 1, 2004 - 3 hours
I spent some time fiddling with some firewall forward stuff. I am not happy with where I mounted the capacitor for the SD-8 alternator because the wiring get's in the way of removing the battery. I'll either move the capacitor or change the wiring somehow. I also moved the ground strap to the engine since it also made it impossible to remove the battery. I made a bracket for the purge valve control line that attaches to one of the engine case bolts.

January 3, 2004 - 5 hours
Trimmed the front of the baffles to fit the new inlet ducts that I glassed into the top cowling. I also riveted on most of those little mounting hole doublers and some of the reinforcement angles for the baffles.

January 4, 2004 - 5.5 hours
After getting the cowling back on after the whole adding inlet duct seals thing I decided that most of the baffles needed a little more trimming. I also cut the hole for the oil cooler and drilled the oil cooler doubler plate to the back baffle. I made some reinforcements for the oil cooler to (hopefull) keep it from cracking the back baffles.

January 8, 2004 - 2 hours
Don came over tonight and made me a beautiful prop governor oil line. The engine came with a hose that was WAY too long (It looks like was probably for an O-540), and I never liked the hose idea anyway. So since Don is one of the best instrument hands on the planet I traded him some BBQ for his skills. I am very happy with it. It's made out of 316SS 3/8x0.035 seamless tubing.

This the governor tubing that Don made for me.

Another shot of the governor line.

January 10, 2004 - 1.75 hours
Drilled the flange for the cabin heat to the baffle and riveted it on with the stainless screen.

Rear looking view of the cabin heat inlet.

This is the back of the right aft baffle where the cabin heat flange is mounted.

January 11, 2004 - 3 hours
Started fitting the rubber baffle seal material to the baffles. I also made the hose for the return fuel line and drilled the hole in the baffle for it to pass through.

This is the doubler plate for oil cooler.

This is the fuel inlet to the AFP purge valve. The other end of this hose is the outlet of the fuel servo.

The seal material is going on quite nicely. This is trickier than I thought it would be but it's not so bad.

The grommet in the rear baffle is where the purge line will pass through on it's way to the bulkhead fitting on the firewall.

January 12, 2004 - 1 hours
Put on some more baffle seal material.

January 13, 2004 - 1 hours
Riveted the baffle seal material on the front left baffle.

January 14, 2004 - 1.5 hours
Riveted the rear left baffle sections together and started cutting the baffle seal material.

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