One Lucky Fox

[Kitfox Pilot]

Your build is coming along very nice.

[yocum137]

Your build is coming along very nice.

Thank you, sir! I’m curious, did you take the horizontal stab off to cover? I haven’t tightened any nuts more than finger tight and I’m curious if I should.

Thanks!
Dan

[yocum137]

Huh. Mine was silver colored and with the first tap on the tool it started to deform/spread the end. I ended up drilling it out and replacing it with one of these, which went right in:

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[efwd]

When I was building my RV-4 back in 2000 I was on the phone with MR Vansgruven who stated "your not building a space shuttle". What you have there is not a problem whatsoever. Just wait until you go to hook up the first hinge to the flapperon control horn. It will likely be so out of alignment that you may need to bend the bracket into a slight S shape for the bolt holes to line up. It all works fine in the end.

[jiott]

Same with mine.

[yocum137]

I'm inspecting rib squareness on ribs #1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 - these are the ribs that the flaperon hinges attach to - and they're not quite square. Just under 1/32", but still. What'd y'all do? Place a shim under one side of the hinges to get them square to the flaperon?

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[yocum137]

They were and they let me peek at the Naughty List, too, but I was sworn to secrecy! 😉

[yocum137]

Figured out a pretty good way to locate the hole in the cowl for the muffler. A 2x2 piece of cardboard with one straight edge to clamp/tape on the bottom of the radiator, even with the rear edge. Trace the outline of the radiator, cut a 6”x6” hole about where the stinger will come through, then cut a right sized muffler hole into a 9”x9” that can be taped down to the big template. Take off the template and cut where the front of the radiator is and line that up with the rear of the NACA duct and that’ll get you within a 1/2” of where the hole should be.

The pictures make it easier to understand.










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[bbs428]

That carbon cowl looks great. The exhaust hole lined up well. Bet your glad you don't have to fix or re-do that cut!

The cowl fitment portion of the build sucked a lot of life out of me as it has to go thru dozens of fit and cut cycles.

Yours is looking real nice!