Author Archives: pclifton

Upper cowl rework – making some molds

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Upper cowl hinge refinement

Previously, I mentioned wanting to work on the hinges for the upper cowl before moving on to drilling the side hinges. To recap, the reason for tapering the hinge eyes is to improve the fit where the cowling curves are … Continue reading

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Lower cowl hinge drilling

So while I’m still not 100% sure what I’m going to do for my cowl pin covers, I’ve decided that figuring that out doesn’t need to stop me from moving forward on getting the hinges in place. So a couple … Continue reading

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Lower cowl sanding and head-scratching

Hello, my name is Philip, and I suffer from analysis paralysis. That’s the main theme for this weekend. After getting the lower cowl shimmed to my liking, it was time to start fine-tuning the joint between the cowl halves. A … Continue reading

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Lower cowl shimming, again

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Lower cowl trimming and shimming

Once again, this is a post covering a few days. I’ve been trying to be productive on the weekends, but it sure is tough after, oh, about 11 AM or so. Anyway, on Sunday I got the upper cowl in … Continue reading

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Lower cowl fine-tuning and hinge drilling

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Control cable planning

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Injector line reroute

From the other side, we can see how the nice billet mount was reused to secure the line: This was very satisfying, but it left one more question: supporting the rear baffle. Normally, there’s a brace that goes from the … Continue reading

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Injection servo mount fix

This led to a surprisingly long and tortuous discovery session. You see, at a glance, it looked like the studs I ordered were too short to fully engage the sump while also providing enough length for the servo and the … Continue reading

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