Mon 05 September 2005 |
| I started the morning by drilling the location for the high pressure oil feed. It was close but needed some tweaking. The mistake I made was to cut the 'C' chanel to the inboard direction - a better solution would be to go aftwards. Not sure how I'm going to deal with it yet, I might trim more drastically the thin .032 material and just use the stiffner .063 for the shape / covering. | 
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| Next I drilled the #14 & #16 parts which provide the vertical support to the two intake floors. This is a BAD way of doing this. The LHS version resulted in a poor edge distance and the RHS is the wrong height due to the stiffener going under the floor pan rather than above. Oh well time for lunch and break! I might have to re-make these parts but I don't hve much .063 stock material. | 
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| The stiffner was a simple set, clamp and drill. Some bevelling of the trailing edge was needed to help it sit neatly into the locaiton. | 
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| Then I decided re-check yet again the box the baffles came in and screwed up the individual pieces of packing paper. Low and behold I found the missing #9 part. I should know better - the VANs packing is SO good. However I had already checked this box multiple times but it was still there. | 
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| I spent the rest of the day sorting some of the bracing. The LHS rear bracing includes the baffle / oil cooler stiffening and the cross member. The vertical angle was simple - it needed 'rounding' of the vertex to help the fit and some careful drilling where it replaced the spreader washer part. The cross member was slightly harder, it needing careful cutting and a joggle on an angle to step up the .063 thickness of the AL angle. All worked out OK in the end. | 
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| Also sorted the RHS brace which is a piece of simple .040 folded angle. Position and drill. | 
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