July 26, 2025

Matching the top and bottom cowling.

Using hydraulic instead of wooden edges. It is named progress.

Cut a plywood template to keep the distance between the spinner and the cowling correct.…

July 25, 2025

Matching the top and bottom cowling.…

July 23, 2025

Matching the top and bottom cowling. Trimming the cowling trailing edge.

Attached the propeller spinner back plate. I was not able to push the propeller bushings by hand. Used a bolt-nut and some sockets to persuade them.…

July 19, 2025

Cut holes in the engine cowling. Tried electrical instruments first.

The easiest to use were a copying saw and a file.

Temporarily attached the bottom part of the cowling. Just to see how it looks.…

July 19, 2025

Making the battery compartment.

July 7, 2025

Attached the oil breather.

Preparing to lift the front wheel to regrease the rubber pucks and tighten the collars.

I used a Harbor Freight hoist.…

July 5, 2025

Temporarily attached ignition coils and the rectifier. Used Adel clamp pliers. It is a great tool. Without the pliers I was not able to install any.…

July 04, 2025

Dimpled the instrument panel frame. Countersunk plate nuts. The dimpler I have cannot dimple the steel plate nuts.

Deburred both instrument panels and screwed them togerhter. I used lithium grease to allow the screws go easier.…

July 1, 2025

Adding plate nuts to the instrument panel. Using a sacrifice plate nut as a jig.

Dimpling using a riveter. Cut a big hole to make the access to behind the instrument panel.…

June 30, 2025

Fabricated the aluminum strips to hold the fine fuel filter.

Fit the instrument panel face to the size.…

June 28, 2025

Finished cutting the air ram box.
Drilled a 1 in hole and riveted an air outlet.

June 12, 2025

Cutting the air ram box.
The box is built from a think aluminum. Tried shears, an angle grinder, a hack saw. The best is a jig saw. Clean and straight cut.

June 17, 2025

Built the fuel pump assembly.

Had to file the mounting plate to make the room for the pump and filter clamps.

It turned out later the pump assembly place does not match the hoses Zenith supplied.…

June 14, 2025

Attached the engine to the airframe.…

April 29, 2025

Painted the motor mount. Rust oleum engine paint aluminum. A small paint booth inside the garage.

April 28, 2025

Cleaned motor mount before painting. Initially by a grinder, sandpaper after.

April 25, 2025

Drilling holes in the motor mount.

December 23, 2025

Transported the wings and the empenage to the airport.…

December 14, 2024

Drilled the door internal gussets to the size.
Unclecoed and folded the forward top skin to make access to the pedals and stick.

December 11, 2024

Reassembled the door frames on clecoes to align before riveting.