Well I am getting closer and closer. I completed the fuel system hookups by installing the fuel lines and control cables to the fuel control. One of the things when I initially fit the cables was the throw of the mixture cable. It hits the stop of the throttle quadrant before it hits the stop on the fuel control I messed with trying to get this to touch and ended up back where I started. I did all this months ago, why I felt the need to mess with it I don’t know. Not having it hit the stop is really not a bid deal since in flight the mixture is never this low, most planes shut off when the mixture is at the stop, this is most likely close enough for that but with the fuel injection system I have, the procedure is to shut the engine down with the purge valve.
I moved onto the filter air box (FAB), I had never opened the package so I did and inventoried the parts. Turns out it includes the control cable for the alternate air which I already purchased not knowing I had one of these. I read over the plans to get an idea of what needed to be done to fit the FAB, like everything else with the engine and baffle it seems to be a lot of test fit trim cycles. I began this before I ran out of time. You have to trim the lip of the FAB back to clear the top of the bottom cowl where the inlet scoop begins. Once this is fit then you get the lip of the upper part of the FAB to match up to the inlet opening. It looks like this will require some significant work as it sit well above the inlet right not. I will have to put on the top cowl since this pulls the bottom up just a bit. Also the fiberglass part looks like it sweeps up from the bowl where the filter element sits so I see some glass work in my future to get this to fit, this adds days since you have to wait a day for a layup to cure!
Still need to rotate some, you can see it sit aboe the lip of the inlet
