You can correct the fit of the upper/lower cowling by adding some fiberglass to the lower cowling and sanding it to fit before you paint the cowling. It will take quite a bit of layers but you can sand it to fit; just takes time and a little work.
I was surprised to see you drilling from the firewall to the nose. I would have started at the front so that any slack was driven to the firewall where it is easier to sand off a little excess. I still think you can fix that easily with just a little lightweight body filler.
Yeah that occurred to me after we started drilling. When we sized up, I pulled the clecos, adjusted, and and went front to back. It helped but not completely. That corner never fit right from day one.
@ Order of drilling definitely wouldn’t fix the problem, but it might not make it worse. I am confident you can fix it with a few hours of body fill sanding. 😁
You can correct the fit of the upper/lower cowling by adding some fiberglass to the lower cowling and sanding it to fit before you paint the cowling. It will take quite a bit of layers but you can sand it to fit; just takes time and a little work.
I was surprised to see you drilling from the firewall to the nose. I would have started at the front so that any slack was driven to the firewall where it is easier to sand off a little excess. I still think you can fix that easily with just a little lightweight body filler.
Yeah that occurred to me after we started drilling. When we sized up, I pulled the clecos, adjusted, and and went front to back. It helped but not completely. That corner never fit right from day one.
@ Order of drilling definitely wouldn’t fix the problem, but it might not make it worse. I am confident you can fix it with a few hours of body fill sanding. 😁
I should have said we repositioned when we upsized the holes, which helped. But yeah, have some future body work to do.