April 25, 2006

This evening, I assembled the snorkel and left baffle floor so that I could make the bracket. Yesterday, the screws arrived for it, which was convenient. Here, I have already made the bracket and drilled it to the floor. This whole area is really, really stiff now!

Here you can see the way the snorkel and floor sandwich the filter. I will be making spacers for the screws so that they have a positive stop to tighten against. The nuts are also just temporary so I could get the bracket to the engine case positioned correctly.

The bracket. Van’s say to bend this bracket, but my thoughts were that using an angle would be a whole lot easier. Seems a lot of other builders do the same thing here too. All the washers are so I don’t have to screw the screw too far in. How lazy am I?!

On to the front walls. These look like they might be a lot of fun - NOT! I uses a piece of 2"x4" to space the wall from the ring gear. Seems to position the baffle walls about right, and keeps them square to something. Some trimming required. You can see the gap I’ll have in the lower corner near the inlet. I’ll have to find a way to close this out, then I’ll probably use some filler in there to tidy it up a bit before getting these painted or powder coated. This was about as far as I got tonight before my lovely wife called me to come get her from work.

I added some other pics and comments in some of the past date entries, as last night’s data recovery session had some further success. Today I formatted the flash card and everything is fine again. I’ve no idea what caused it to go bad.