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 sanded/filed the forward upright to put a ronuded corner on it. then I packed them full of SuperFil. I took several applications as 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 for another application. I'll let them all cure overnigth and see if any additional aplication sare required tomorrow. On a seperate note the induction fairing from Rod Bower arrived this afternoon. After staring at the lower cowl for a couple of hours, I mustered 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 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 cowl space) that it will require a lot of "Bridge' fiberglass work to make a cosmetically appealing transition from the bottom cowl 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 induction ring, It will widen out from there back to clear the 'bump' on the canister.
What have I done ! ? Hacking up my cowl
Here's the Bump' on the filter canister that will cause a wide transition from cowl to induction ring
A rough idea of what a profile view might look like
