I’m pretty much done with the oil door now. I finished up the last of the sanding, got the latches installed, and added some little aluminum strikers for the latches to catch against. The only thing left is to rivet the hinge to the cowl, but I had to order some longer rivets to do that.
I also finished up the filtered air box. The only thing remaining on that was to get the baffle seal material installed, and I got that knocked out today.
Next, I installed my main power passthru’s on the firewall. These are made by Blue Sea, and will give a clean sealed passthru for both my ground and main battery cables.
And finally, I installed all the sensors: exhaust gas temp, cylinder head temp, oil temp, oil pressure, fuel pressure, and manifold pressure. I will also have a fuel flow sensor, but that’ll get hooked up later. Two things you need to be careful of when you’re installing the EGT probes are that you need to make sure they won’t hit the cowl, and that they are all the same distance from the exhaust outlet (so you get consistent readings between the cylinders). I also had to cross reference the numbers on the pressure sensors to the G3X install manual, because while the sensors look identical, all three are different!
Ed, We’re going to do the awesome oil door hinges and latches you and Justin did, but I’ve been searching McMaster Carr for the hidden hinges and see nothing that looks like what you and Justin used. I know you have to cut them down, but still. Can you give me a stock number for the hinges. Thanks
Ahh never mind. Aircraft Spruce now sells a prefabbed hidden hinge.
Ed, the oil door looks great. I’m getting ready to work on mine using same hardware and was wondering how much of a recessed lip did you left for the oil door to rest on? Van’s plans for original door shows only 3/8”.