{"id":555,"date":"2011-10-05T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2011-10-05T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:02:46","slug":"12-1-engine-installation-prep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/12-1-engine-installation-prep-2\/","title":{"rendered":"12.1 Engine Installation Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"36\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 3 of 50 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/12-engine-propeller\/\">12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Yesterday, I cut the titanium firewall shield. But some trimming is still required. At Oshkosh, Malcolm had me pickup some grinding stones that supposedly work great on titanium&#8230; And they do. I only destroyed two doing the entire firewall. It took about half a day. Put the titanium in place, mark where it&#8217;s too big, grind it down and repeat about two-dozen times. You can always take off more but you can&#8217;t add any if you take off too much, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-10-05_DSC_0047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-556\" title=\"2011-10-05_DSC_0047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-10-05_DSC_0047-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next it&#8217;s time to attach the engine to the motor mount. But there&#8217;s a problem. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>The bolts that were supplied are AN7-36A&#8217;s. The manual says to use AN7-34A bolts. Sadly, I need the shorter 34A bolts. So now I have to wait until tomorrow for a delivery from Aircraft Spruce &amp; Speciality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"36\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 3 of 50 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/12-engine-propeller\/\">12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Yesterday, I cut the titanium firewall shield. But some trimming is still required. At Oshkosh, Malcolm had me pickup some grinding stones that supposedly work great on titanium&#8230; And they do. I only destroyed two doing the entire firewall. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/12-1-engine-installation-prep-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"series":[36],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","series-12-engine-propeller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}