Lindy
9/7/2009
Back from a fun weekend in Madison, Wisconsin with Brit and the boyz! She had a training day scheduled for today with her dog friends, so naturally I spent the day at the airport! This morning my dad came out to help me for a while, and the first thing we did was rivet some angle on the front baffle pieces. These were sagging a bit, and I wanted to make sure they were in the proper position, so adding angle here was the way to go.
Then it was time to get the 'glass works out again, and make the ramp from the plenum to the cylinders nice and smooth.
Here you can see where we filled the big gaps on the left side of the engine with some flox and cloth.
My goal is to seal the front of the plenum as good as I possibly can to keep the air moving down thru the cylinders as efficiently as possible.
After that we decided to break for some lunch, and I needed to do some site searching for pics on how to start installing the filtered air box. All I have to go on, is a picture in the instructions...nice. There is nothing that says how to hang it, which brackets to use/make...nothing. I didn't find much, but I think I have an idea. The first thing to do is figure out how the heck to hang the air box (cone) to fit it. I attached some SCAT, and hung the rear with some safety wire for now to get it close.
There is no SCAT between the cone and the bowl yet, and I need some help to position it, so when my dad is able to come back over sometime this week, we'll tackle that.
I decided for whatever reason, that it was time to install the CHT probe leads. Why not?
At this point, my hangar neighbor, Terry, was ready to run his 7A again with new spark plug leads (runs GREAT now!!), so I quit here.
5.25 hours