More firewall forward

We’ve been doing more firewall forward work, too.  Here you can see the current state of things (around mid-August).

You can see the breather tube in the picture above.  This is near the top of the engine and vents the engine case to the outside.

This is where the breather tube exits.  In this position, it’s not below the bottom of the firewall and won’t drip on the exhaust (which would burn up the oil), so we may end up with an oily firewall.  I called Van’s, and they suggested flying it and later adding an extension, if necessary.

Not a great picture above, but you can see there’s a clamp holding a gray wire.  Because of the way the Van’s baffle mounts, I had to re-make the mounting bracket, figuring out how it should be made and making it.  Not a big deal, but it illustrates why the “finishing” takes so long.  Lots of unplanned stuff like this.  EDIT: The bracket as pictured above won’t work.  As it’s pictured, the bracket won’t keep the wire from hitting the engine ring gear.  I didn’t think of this, because the ring gear wasn’t installed at the time.  I had to make a new bracket further forward; I’ll try to remember to take a picture later.