Make it a retina-searing electric purple and you've got it.

I want a paint job on mine such that, when people hear me overhead and look up, their first reaction is "Oh Damn!!"

3-conductor shielded from the power pack to the strobes, standard unshielded for power and ground. Wrap your power and ground 3 turns together through a ferrite core to knock down electromagnetic interference in the power/ground wires, it will radiate from them like an antenna.

3-conductor shielded from the power pack to the strobes, standard unshielded for power and ground. Wrap your power and ground 3 turns together through a ferrite core to knock down electromagnetic interference in the power/ground wires, it will radiate from them like an antenna.

I had initially drilled my hole in the wing for the Vans stock pitot tube, then later changed my mind and went with the Dynon pitot tube further out on the wing next to an access plate. I put my OAT in the original pitot tube position to fill the hole.

Last conversation I had with ECI, they said 8.7:1 compression would be OK for premium non-ethanol autogas. That's what I'm planning on, with an IO360 in my 9A. The lower compression robs a little horsepower so I add the cubic inches to get it back, and save a buck and a half per gallon.

Masking tape and a Sharpie...

I put the conduit in both my wings, but I don't think I would do it again. It's easy enough to do everything you need with plastic bushings. Now in the fuselage, I put 4 runs of conduit under the seats running from just aft of the baggage compartment to the stick area just aft of the wing spar bulkh...

I concur. I am normally full VAF supporter and pay on January every year. This yea I haven't renewed my support. I think VAf is a great place for info, but some of the shine is wearing off. You need to be careful on what and how you say something. Whereas on RB I feel I can share almost anything(ke...

In my 9A, I put a connector inside the rudder fairing so I can pull the fairing, pull the plugs apart, then pull the rudder. As far as routing the wiring through the VS, yeah that's pretty much ad hoc.

I'm thinking I would probably just fill that area with some proseal or some microballoons and call it good.

Dave, The more I think about it, the more I think it has to be the sensor. With the drastic CHT change should come SOME sort of a EGT change. But nothing. EGT's are straightline. I might order a new CHT sensor this week just to be on the safe side. I'm thinking sensor for another reason - the actua...

Not flying yet, but I put capacitive senders in my main wing tanks and float senders in my outboard tanks. My fuel setup pulls fuel from the outboards to the inboards as I burn it through the engine, so total outboard fuel quantity accuracy was less important to me than inboard, but some type of ind...

cjensen wrote:I did the same thing Joe...like Spike says, just flatten them back out and move on!

Same here - you can do it ONCE.

I recall that about my kit as well - only one of the holes was prepunched in the rib. I clecoed it in and drilled through the skin for the other hole.

Still building the darn thing, at about the same spot as Spike, the fuse is basically complete and the finish kit is inventoried. I haven't been able to work on it for about 3 weeks now, and probably won't for at least a couple more months - I'm in the process of selling my house and moving, so it's...

I am building mine in my 2-car garage, my dad and I moved it into the driveway for the fitting, worked just fine. You will have to ensure you are level and plumb all over again - most garage floors and almost all driveways slope some for water drainage. http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/3496/100003...

Yup, cut 'em long and put a 1/2" bend in it to pull them out later, as shown in the plans. I've had mine in/out a couple times already and I'm only half way through the fuse, you'll definitely want the ability to pull the pins easily.

I've done a lot of flying (non-RV) with both systems, and absolutely LOVE having electric trim on the stick, this was a no-brainer for me. I love being able to trim the airplane rapidly without taking my eyes off the windshield view during dynamic situations (like base-to-final, slowing and dropping...

Just turn the bulkhead fitting around to put the washer on the inside.

*EDIT* - never mind, just re-read and saw the comment about TWO washers. I didn't run my vents this way so I'm gonna sit down and shutup now....

Yes, the 172 is a 2001 model, very nicely equipped. Dual vacuum pumps, IFR GPS with coupled 2-axis autopilot, weather and traffic on 550, IO360 conversion with GAMIjectors, it's a traveling machine (at a blistering 118 ktas :mrgreen: ) I looked at the Zaon XRX coupled to a Garmin 396, this would get...