Well, the oil cooler mount is slowly coming together. There isn't a lot of space between back of the baffles, the engine mount and the upper cowling. I want to get the oil cooler as high as possible, which means it has to move inboard due to the curvature of the upper cowling. But, it starts to interfere with the engine mount as you move it inboard. The whole thing is further complicated by my desire to space the cooler a bit aft of the back baffle, to allow air to come over the top of the cylinder, and down between the back baffle and the cooler to flow through the lower half of cooler. I've had to trim corners off the flanges on the cooler so it doesn't hit the engine mount on the right side or the curved upper surface of the cowling on the left.


The oil cooler mount is made from pieces of 0.125 inch aluminum angle bolted together. It is less deep at the bottom, to better clear the engine mount. The bolts that attach the cooler to the mount are not the correct ones. I will be using much longer bolts that go through both the forward and rear flanges, with a spacer in between.

A long awaited box from Aircraft Spruce arrived today. It had a bunch of miscellaneous hardware, plus the ACK A-30 altitude encoder. I always feel like a kid at Christmas unwrapping these boxes.