I was in Montreal all week until Thursday evening. This weekend I finally started slowly at the remaining fibreglas work. I had been delaying the fibreglas work on the alternate air door installation, as I was waiting for some longer blind rivets to arrive. My induction snorkel seems to be curved a bit more than the one in Van's pictures, so the lower two holes needed a much longer rivet than the ones they sent.

You can see that there was quite a large gap to fill between the lower part of the metal ring and the snorkel. A thick mixture of flox and resin made a great paste to fill the gap.

The surface of the filled area is a bit rough where I ground off the lumps of excess material. I brushed on a coating of resin to seal and smooth the surface after taking these photos. I'll finish the alternate air door installation after that resin cures.

I then rolled a thinned coat of resin on the inside of the lower cowling to seal some areas of porosity. I screwed up though, and used too much acetone to thin the resin. It seems to be curing very slowly. Hopefully it will turn out OK.

Next I clecoed the canopy skirt back on to confirm the fit, and decide what remained to do. It fits well along the upper and lower edges, but I have some gaps to fill between the inside surface of the skirt and the vertical tubes of the underlying framework.