Left floor fitting
I didn’t do anything on the project over the past two days. Took a little break for some computer projects. Today, I worked more on the front left baffle floor. I positioned and drilled the 2R stiffener angle at the front of the cylinder and part 14 that holds up the right side of the floor. I had to do a lot of trimming in the process, but it’s starting to fit pretty good.
I test fit the cowl and it’s obvious that the cowl inlet needs to be trimmed back in order to make enough room for the air filter.
I trimmed the cowl and re-installed it.
I took a few iterations of trimming back the left side baffle before the fit was looking good. I need to study a bit more how the filter and FAB gets attached to the baffle floor before I can figure out if I need to trim the cowl more or not. I’m not sure if the edge of the filter can go right up against the bend just forward of part 2R. If it can, I have about 1/4″ between the cowl and filter right now. That looks pretty good.
After dinner I went back out and started making the parts that connect the FAB to the bottom of the left baffle floor. Getting these figured out will help me determine how to position the filter.