Once the inside work was completed, I put the cowling back on to see how much room I’ve got.

It’s hard to tell from the picture, but there’s about 1/2″ clearance between the top of the intake and the inside of the cowling. It’s tight, but it should be enough.

The top needed a bit of work though. It was a bit bumpy with a couple low spots. So after consulting with Malcom, I filled the low spots with micro and covered the whole thing with  one layer of fine BID.

A little bit (hopefully, very little) of filler and it should be ready to move on to the next step.