Plans: 1. Fabricate the radiator mount. Status: 50% complete. Initial shaping and placement of the radiator uprights is complete. To eliminate the interference with the exhaust pipe the right upright was flipped around. This unfortunately has the drawback of blocking some of the radiator elements. Hopefully it will not prove problematic. The engine install manual states that as much as 40% of the surface area could be blocked. We shall see,
The actual uprights were made by joining aluminum angle making a large channel that provides the correct spacing and alignment with the cowl.