{"id":900,"date":"2012-04-23T09:01:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2012-05-10T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T15:20:01","slug":"11-1-engine-cowl-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/11-1-engine-cowl-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"11.1 Engine Cowl Mod"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 4 of 17 in the series 11 - Fairings<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

You may remember all the work that has been done to get the engine to fit: two of the intake tubes were replaced with custom built tubes to clear the cowling and then a hole was cut in the cowling for the main air intake.<\/p>\n

Now it’s time to, sadly, modify the cowling so the air intake will fit.<\/p>\n

Here’s a side, top and inside view:<\/p>\n

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I drew a shape to provide a symmetrical guide and rounded it out.\u00a0 Then I made the cut and sanded the surrounding area.<\/p>\n

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To prevent an “bubble” where the hole was, I made relief cuts around the opening. Then I cut a piece of foam that was a little smaller than the relief cuts to go under the cowling. I large piece of aluminum sheet went under that. Then I made a “plug” out of triax that I covered with duct tape.<\/p>\n

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Then the area was covered with two progressively larger layers of BID.<\/p>\n

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This entry is part 4 of 17 in the series 11 - Fairings<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

You may remember all the work that has been done to get the engine to fit: two of the intake tubes were replaced with custom built tubes to clear the cowling and then a hole was cut in the cowling … Continue reading →<\/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":[44],"tags":[],"series":[35],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44","series-11-fairings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","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=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}