| Started | Finished | Hours | |||||
| 2/27/2005 | 123 | ||||||
| Construction Log | |||||||
| Part | Date | Hours | Log | ||||
| 11/9/04 | 1 | Inventoried Firewall FWD | |||||
| Firewall FWD | 2/27/05 | 3.75 | Drilled holes for oil pressure and breather tube platenuts. Drilled VA-161 gascolator bracket to firewall. Deburred and countersunk Firewall and VA-161. Prepped and painted VA-161. Drilled and deburred holes for VA-168 manifold. Installed TG-10 Cabin heat vent. Cut cabin heat vent cable to size. | ||||
| 2/28/05 | 1 | Riveted platenuts and VA-161 to firewall. | |||||
| 3/1/05 | 1 | Finished riveting VA-161 to firewall. Set cabin heat cable to correct position. Checked full travel of vent. | |||||
| 3/6/05 | 5.25 | Disassembled engine crate! Removed protective wrapping around engine. Inspected engine. Installed gascolator to firewall. Installed fittings on gascolator. Fab'd aux fuel pump to gascolator fuel line and installed. Attached fittings to VA-168 sender mount and installed sender mount on firewall. Reinstalled engine mount on firewall. Re-oriented oil pressure restrictor fitting on engine. Installed oil cooler lines on engine. | |||||
| 3/7/05 | 0.25 | Reviewed FWF Instructions. | |||||
| 3/8/05 | 0.75 | Installed Manifold pressure fitting hose on #3 cylinder. Deilled and installed VA-170 MP Adapter fitting in firewall. | |||||
| 3/11/05 | 4.75 | Preparing for engine installation, and installed engine! Added washers and re-bolted engine. Inatalled cotter pins. Installed ignition harnesses. | |||||
| 3/12/05 | 4 | Drained inhibiting oil from engine. Installed carb on engine. Installed exhaust and cabin heat muff. | |||||
| 3/13/05 | 4 | Installed fuel and oil pressure transducers. Installed fuel and oil pressure hoses. Installed fittings on fuel pump. Installed fuel lines from gascolator to fuel pump to carb. Installed oil temp sensor. Installed engine breather tube. Routed throttle and mixture cables through firewall. | |||||
| 3/15/05 | 0.5 | Worked on exhaust mounting brackets. | |||||
| 3/19/05 | 5.25 | Fab'd alternator support strut. Primed alternator mounting brackets. Re-fab'd new support strut that has a slightly longer hole spacing. Attached alternator to engine. Tried various alternator belts. A NAPA 7360 Belt fit properly. Attached prop extension and backplate to prop. installed prop and re-tightened alternator belt. | |||||
| 3/25/05 | 1 | Fab'd FF-702 spacer. Installed throttle/mixture hardware. Set travel and tightened jam nuts and lock nuts. | |||||
| 4/3/05 | 3.25 | Installed lower cowling, reviewed baffle instructions. Trimmed baffle parts 3,4,8,9 and reinforcements to fot over valve covers. Partially drilled #40 holes from reinforcements to outbd baffle parts. Trimmed Lt. Front air inlet floor to clear engine block. | |||||
| 4/8/05 | 6 | Worked on Baffled. Fab'd side stiffners and ignition cable seals. | |||||
| 4/9/05 | 2 | Continued Baffle work. | |||||
| 4/10/05 | 4.25 | Continued Baffle work. | |||||
| 4/12/05 | 1.5 | Continued Baffle work. | |||||
| 4/13/05 | 0.5 | Continued Baffle work. | |||||
| 4/16/05 | 3.75 | Drilled firewall holes for Sensor wires. Marked EGT/CHT Extension wires. Continued baffle work. Started trimming top of baffles. | |||||
| 4/18/05 | 1.75 | Made more top trims. Trimmed top to 3/8". | |||||
| 4/19/05 | 1 | Trimmed top around engine. | |||||
| 4/20/05 | 0.75 | Made final trims on top of baffles. | |||||
| 4/22/05 | 1 | Cut Air Filter and fit to carb. Applied sealant around filter and accelerator pump. | |||||
| 4/23/05 | 2.5 | Routed lower spark plug wires. Drilled and installed EGT probes. Routed EGT/CHT extensions. | |||||
| 4/26/05 | 0.25 | Removed air filter from carb and trimmed excess RTV. | |||||
| 4/27/05 | 1 | Removed RR Outbd and Rt Back baffles and drilled rivet holes and spark plug holes. | |||||
| 4/28/05 | 1.75 | Removed RF otbd and Rt Floor Baffled and drilled rivet holes. Fab'd piece to simplify lt rear baffles. | |||||
| 4/29/05 | 1 | Drilled Lt back simplifier to back and sides. Drilled back sides together and FF-709 to left back. | |||||
| 4/30/05 | 6 | Drilled remaining baffle holes and disassembled. Deburred all baffle holes and edges. Started riveting baffle components together. | |||||
| 5/1/05 | 5.25 | Trimmed front baffles to fit over cowl inlet ramps. Fab'd airseal fabric for baffles. | |||||
| 5/2/05 | 1.25 | Fab'd airseal for air inlets. Test fit cowling and checked for interference. | |||||
| 5/3/05 | 1.25 | Started riveting oil cooler mount to baffles. | |||||
| 5/4/05 | 2.25 | Riveted left real baffling. Cut oil cooler spacers. Marked/drilled Rt rear baffle for cabin heat inlet. Drilled Mag blast tube holes in rear baffles and alternator blast tube hole. Cut cabin heat inlet screen to size. | |||||
| 5/5/05 | 0.5 | Riveted and sealed cabin heat inlet inlet to baffle. Continued riveting baffling. | |||||
| 5/8/05 | 8.5 | Riveted remianing baffle parts together. Attached flange reinforcements and tied front/rear baffles together. Notched oil cooler bracket for engine mount clearance. Attached fittings to oil cooler, mounted to baffle, and attached hoses. Riveted airseal fabric to baffles and lower cowl. fit cowl and checked airseal. Filed air filter top plate to fit over filter. Aligned top plate with air inlet. Drilled top plate to mount plate and drilled platenut holes in top plate. | |||||
| 5/9/05 | 2.75 | Deburred, dimpled, riveted platenuts to top plate. Vertically aligned top plate to cowling. Cut access hole in top cowl to ease hinge inst and removal. Fit air box to filter assembly. | |||||
| 5/13/05 | 3.5 | Drilled airbox to top plate and trimmed airbox. Installed oil filler tube. Cut carb heat door and fit to airbox. Cut hole in top plate for carb heat door and hinge. Drilled hinges to top plate and carb heat door. | |||||
| 5/14/05 | 1.5 | Completed exhaust attach brackets. Cut cabin heat tubes to length and installed. | |||||
| 5/20/05 | 2.5 | Started sealing baffle gaps. Filed top plate to fit air filter. Deburred top plate and air box door. Riveted carb door assy to top plate and top plate to airbox. Installed airbox and cowling and measured gap. Removed cowl and trimmed foam to fit in cowling inlet. | |||||
| 5/22/05 | 1 | Bored hole in foam between air box and cowling. Layed up fiberglass in foam plug. | |||||
| 5/23/05 | 0.5 | Applied resin to air inlet. | |||||
| 5/24/05 | 2.25 | Sanded air inlet smooth. Removed foam plug and cut air inlet to size. Drilled and riveted airseal to air box. Test fit cowling. | |||||
| 5/25/05 | 1.5 | Finished sanding inlet. Primed inlet. Made template for spinner and started cutting spinner. | |||||
| 5/26/05 | 3.5 | Cut spinner to size. Marked and drilled spinner to front and back plates. Fab'd rear gap fillers and drilled to rear plate. Drilled, deburred, c-sunk, and riveted platenuts to front and backplate. | |||||
| 5/27/05 | 3.75 | Fab'd gap filler backing plates and drilled to spinner and gap fillers. Riveted platenuts to backing plates. Prepped and primed spinner front and back plates. Installed prop, safety wired, and installed spinner. Sanded cowling, spinner and washed cowling. Applied thinned epoxy to cowling and spinner. | |||||
| 5/30/05 | 1 | Drilled vent hole in oil breather tube. Cinnected #1,3 cylinder probes. | |||||
| 5/31/05 | 1.25 | Cut fuel and vent tubes to length and installed fittings. Tightened fittings on fuel valve. | |||||
| 6/2/05 | 3 | Cut, prepped, primed and installed battery restraining strap. Cut carb heat cable to size, fab'd spacer and installed onto airbox. RTV'd firewall recess and corners. Installed fuel pump overflow fitting and tube. Installed blast tube for alternator. | |||||
| 6/3/05 | 2 | Connected remaining EGT/CHT probes and heat shrink connections. RTV'd remaining firewall penetrations. Installed new fuel drain and attached tubing. Installed airbox. | |||||
| 6/4/05 | 3.25 | Fab'd lower cowl pins. Installed exit air attach brackets. Sanded cowl and applied bondo. Sanded bondo and applied coat of epoxy, | |||||
| Firewall FWD | 123 | ||||||