| Spent the early part of the day filling the upper portion of the intercostal channels that attach to the fore and aft door jams. I |
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| sanded/filed the forward upright to put a ronuded corner on it. then I packed them full of SuperFil. I took several applications as |
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| the area is so large the mixture begins to sag. Fortunately the heat helped to accelerate the cure and it began to set up, allowing |
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| for another application. I'll let them all cure overnigth and see if any additional aplication sare required tomorrow. On a seperate |
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| note the induction fairing from Rod Bower arrived this afternoon. After staring at the lower cowl for a couple of hours, I mustered |
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| up the courage to hackoff the oval induction ring on my James lower cowl. I made a series of cuts to the original fairing , each |
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| one getting it closer to 'flush'. the biggest problem is that the Ram Air/filter canister is so wide and short (to allow it to fit into the |
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| cowl space) that it will require a lot of "Bridge' fiberglass work to make a cosmetically appealing transition from the bottom cowl |
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| to the new round induction ring. I think that when I'm all done the only truely round portion will be the forward most 1-2" of the |
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| induction ring, It will widen out from there back to clear the 'bump' on the canister. |
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