Engine Choice
  [October 20, 2007]: Picked up the Engine!

Firewall Forward [154 Hours]
  [April 3, 2008]: [3.5 Hours] Made and mounted battery tray
  [May 9, 2008]: [0.5 Hours] Installed brake resevoir; started making doubler
  [May 10, 2008]: [5 Hours] Installed master and starter solenoid
  [May 12, 2008]: [2 Hours] Made fuel line doubler; misc stuff
  [May 18, 2008]: [2 Hours] Finished battery box
  [May 21, 2008]: [3 Hours] Installed heater box and parking brake valve
  [May 24, 2008]: [1 Hour] Misc Stuff
  [May 28, 2008]: [2 Hours] Installed ground block and current limiter base
  [June 3, 2008]: [4 Hours] Riveted Recess, Mounted battery tray, electrical stuff, heater bypass and brake reservoir
  [June 18, 2008]: [3.5 Hours] Messed around with prop governor
  [June 22, 2008]: [3 Hours] Installed prop governor and other engine fittings
  [June 27, 2008]: [2 Hours] HUNG THE ENGINE!
  [June 29, 2008]: [2 Hours] Installed alternator, fuel controller, inside brake lines.
  [June 30, 2008]: [2 Hours] Hung exhaust, measured a bunch of hoses
  [July 11, 2008]: [2 Hours] Installed Propeller, started cowl work
  [July 21, 2008]: [2 Hours] Fit top cowl
  [October 23, 2008]: [2.5 Hours] Fuel controller / mixture arm
  [October 24, 2008]: [2.5 Hours] Fiberglassed mixture arm bump-out in cowl
  [October 25, 2008]: [1 Hour] Worked on mixture arm bump-out in cowl some more
  [October 29, 2008]: [1 Hour] Made firewall hole for mixture cable
  [October 30, 2008]: [3 Hours] Made firewall holes for throttle and prop cables
  [October 31, 2008]: [2 Hours] Riveted bottom of firewall, worked on camlock backing plates
  [November 1, 2008]: [2 Hours] Installed some camlocks
  [November 2, 2008]: [2 Hours] Installed more camlocks, fiberglass work
  [November 3, 2008]: [2.5 Hours] Finished camlock install; Misc other stuff
  [November 4, 2008]: [1 Hour] Cut cowl inlets for intake rings
  [November 5, 2008]: [2 Hours] Glassed intake rings to cowl
  [November 6, 2008]: [3 Hours] Intake ring work
  [November 10, 2008]: [4 Hours] Started Filtered Air Box (FAB)
  [November 11, 2008]: [4 Hours] More FAB work
  [November 12, 2008]: [1 Hour] Modified FAB box
  [November 13, 2008]: [2 Hours] Reshaped the top of the FAB
  [November 14, 2008]: [2 Hours] Drilled top of FAB, started glassin' the FAB
  [November 15, 2008]: [4 Hours] More FAB glass, glassed in air inlet ring
  [November 25, 2008]: [1 Hour] Sanded FAB
  [December 4, 2008]: [1.5 Hours] Layed up some more fiberglass on the FAB
  [December 5, 2008]: [1.5 Hours] Sanded and sanded and sanded the FAB
  [December 11, 2008]: [3 Hours] Installed filter bypass on FAB
  [December 12, 2008]: [3 Hours] Heat muff and exhaust hangers
  [December 13, 2008]: [3 Hours] Finished exhaust, frabricated top cowl hinge latch
  [December 16, 2008]: [2 Hours] Finished FAB!
  [December 17, 2008]: [3 Hours] In-Fuselage cowl hinge insertion
  [December 19, 2008]: [1 Hour] Started transducer manifold.
  [December 20, 2008]: [2 Hours] Ran brake lines
  [December 24, 2008]: [3 Hours] Breather tube; Fuel pump vent
  [December 27, 2008]: [4 Hours] Fuel line and control cable routing
  [December 29, 2008]: [1 Hour] Secured bottom of breather tube
  [January 8, 2009]: [1.25 Hours] Added adel clamp to in-cowl pin tubes
  [January 9, 2009]: [2 Hours] Installed fuel pressure, oil pressure and manifold pressure hoses
  [January 16, 2009]: Got the right fuel line!
  [February 4, 2009]: [0.25 Hours] Attached oil and manifold pressure lines to firewall
  [February 8, 2009]: [2 Hours] Installed firewall pass-thru's
  [March 25, 2009]: [2 Hours] Mounted EMAG
  [April 6, 2009]: [1.5 Hours] Installed oil temp sensor and CHT probes
  [April 7, 2009]: [2 Hours] Installed oil cooler hoses onto engine
  [April 16, 2009]: [10 Hours] EGT probes, Oil cooler hoses, fuel hose, EMAG wires
  [April 29, 2009]: [2 Hours] Started wiring P-LEAD for left magneto
  [April 30, 2009]: [2 Hours] Finisghed wiring p-lead; put connector on oil temp sensor
  [June 5, 2009]: [8 Hours] Mounted baffles, mounted oil cooler; ran mag wires
  [June 6, 2009]: [2 Hours] EGT/CHT connectors, holes in exhaust
  [June 8, 2009]: [2 Hours] Dressed up EGT/CHT probe wire started bottom baffle rods
  [June 16, 2009]: [4 Hours] Fabricated GPS antenna tray
  [June 17, 2009]: [1.5 Hours] Mounted GPS tray
  [September 14, 2009]: [1.5 Hours] Installed EMAG/Top spark plug terminated wires

Cowling [72.5 Hours]
  [July 22, 2008]: [2.5 Hours] Trimmed aft of top cowling, drilled top hinge
  [July 23, 2008]: [2 Hours] Worked on final fitting of top cowl
  [July 25, 2008]: [2 Hours] Drilled top cowling to hinge
  [July 27, 2008]: [1 Hour] Started fitting bottom cowl
  [August 12, 2008]: [2.5 Hours] More work on bottom cowl
  [August 13, 2008]: [3 Hours] Bottom cowl trimming
  [August 15, 2008]: [2.5 Hours] Even more bottom cowl work,,,
  [August 16, 2008]: [7 Hours] Finished mounting bottom cowl!
  [August 20, 2008]: [2 Hours] Cut oil door
  [August 25, 2008]: [2.5 Hours] Made metal oil door
  [August 26, 2008]: [2 Hours] Bevelled firewall hinge
  [August 29, 2008]: [2.5 Hours] Installed hinges for oil door
  [September 13, 2008]: [6 Hours] Finished oil door, Cowl work, Installed belly antennas
  [September 14, 2008]: [4 Hours] Worked on front cowl
  [September 16, 2008]: [3 Hours] Filled gear leg gaps
  [October 20, 2008]: [1 Hour] Finished off bottom cowl camlock backing strips
  [October 21, 2008]: [1 Hour] Worked on interference with mixture arm
  [December 5, 2008]: [0.25 Hours] Vent tube interference with subpanel
  [April 6, 2009]: [2 Hours] Fixed side hinge binding
  [May 4, 2009]: [1 Hour] Filled in some space between the hinge and cowl
  [May 5, 2009]: [2 Hours] Prepping cowl for hinges to be riveted
  [May 11, 2009]: [3.5 Hours] Riveted hinges to cowl
  [May 12, 2009]: [2.5 Hours] Started sealing bottom cowl
  [May 14, 2009]: [2 Hours] Sanded bottom cowl
  [May 20, 2009]: [0.5 Hours] More bottom cowl sealing work
  [May 25, 2009]: [6 Hours] Lots of odds and ends.
  [May 26, 2009]: [3 Hours] More sanding of the bottom cowl - started sealing top cowl
  [June 2, 2009]: [2 Hours] More top cowl sealing
  [June 16, 2009]: [0.25 Hours] Painted top cowl
  [June 17, 2009]: [1 Hour] Installed oil door

Baffles [63.5 Hours]
  [November 5, 2008]: [1 Hour] Started Baffles
  [November 9, 2008]: [3.5 Hours] Deburred Baffles
  [November 10, 2008]: [1 Hour] Finished deburring baffles
  [November 15, 2008]: [1.5 Hours] Worked on more baffle assembly
  [November 21, 2008]: [2.5 Hours] Started fitting baffles to engine
  [November 23, 2008]: [1 Hour] Fitting aft baffles
  [November 24, 2008]: [3 Hours] Fitted side and front baffles
  [November 25, 2008]: [1.5 Hours] Made some inlet fiberglass adapters
  [November 28, 2008]: [2 Hours] Messed around with inlet adapters
  [November 29, 2008]: [3.5 Hours] Started fitting inlet adapters to baffles
  [November 30, 2008]: [7 Hours] Got the intake adapter to work. Trimmed baffles
  [December 1, 2008]: [3.5 Hours] Made baffle for above right intake; started left intake
  [February 2, 2009]: [2 Hours] Worked on fitting plenum
  [February 3, 2009]: [1 Hour] Figured out plenum fit
  [February 9, 2009]: [2.5 Hours] Temporarily attached the plenum to the baffles.
  [February 12, 2009]: [3 Hours] Fiberglassed extension onto rear of plenum
  [February 13, 2009]: Plenum Fiberglass bumpout finished
  [February 16, 2009]: [0.5 Hours] Made plenum screw alignment tool
  [February 17, 2009]: [1.5 Hours] Drilled plenum sides to baffles
  [February 20, 2009]: [1.5 Hours] Modified front left plenum intake
  [February 22, 2009]: [2 Hours] Drilled oil cooler doubler to rear baffle
  [February 23, 2009]: [3.5 Hours] Glassed front left intake
  [March 26, 2009]: [3 Hours] Worked on right rear baffles
  [March 29, 2009]: [2 Hours] Riveted together left rear baffle Oil cooler work
  [April 1, 2009]: [3 Hours] Glassed right intake
  [April 6, 2009]: [1 Hour] Glassed front right intake
  [April 16, 2009]: [2 Hours] Added some filler to the plenum
  [April 30, 2009]: [1.5 Hours] Fixed problem with oil cooler baffle interference
  [May 4, 2009]: [1 Hour] Cut hole for left spark plug wire passthrough
  [June 10, 2009]: [1.5 Hours] Finished Baffles


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