You can probably tell that I’ve had some house and personal stuff to take care of over the last few days, thus I haven’t had full build days.  Although I have still been getting at least a few hours in the shop each day.

I started off today by razor trimming and cleaning up the outside layup securing the right inlet inboard wall in place.  Remember I didn’t use peel ply, so none of that to pull.

I then cleaned up the inside edge, sanded, Acetoned and overall prepped it for its layup.  I then laid up a 1-ply CF tape to secure the inside of the right inlet wall to the bottom cowling.  I then peel plied the layup.

As I was prepping the inboard side of the right inlet wall above for its layup, I also flipped the bottom cowling over and sanded off the old paint and micro to expose a small triangular area of CF cowl surface.

I then laid up 3 plies of CF on the bare CF over the screw hole (pic 1) just as I did on the top side to thicken the immediate area to allow countersinking the hole to install a nice flush CS screw at that point.  I then peel plied the layup (pic 2).

After my layups, I then cut out and cleaned up the GIB headrest/D-deck gap cover.

Here’s a shot of the initial fitting from both sides to get a better view of each side.  Notice on the left side (right in pic) that I cut the lower side of the cover to create a dogleg that will eliminate any obstructions for the engine electronics cooling intake fan.

It took nearly 45 minutes of minute sanding and trimming to get the cover set in place without any major gaps and so that it fit as well.  Remember, once I get it dialed in and very close, then the securing hardware (most likely 4x #6 screws) I will then do a final layer of CF on top.

Here we have a straight on shot.

And with that, I called it a night.  Tomorrow I plan on working the armpit intake ramp placement and installs, in addition to some aluminum vane cutouts.  Also, I plan to start working the exhaust pipe runs in the next day or two as well.