More vent brackets and GTN-650: 4.5 hours

• Riveted vent brackets to fuselage skin
• Made bracket for mounting GTN-650 tray to subpanel
• Prepped and primed brackets for GTN-650
• Riveted rear brackets to GTN-650 tray
• Drilled holes for plate nuts in sub panel
• Riveted plate nuts to aft GTN-650 brackets
• Test fitted GTN-650

Riveting vent brackets to fuselage:

Vent and instrument panel brackets:

Fitting GTN-650 tray brackets:

Test fitting GTN-650 - looks good!

Instrument panel vents and Garmin GTN-650 tray: 7 hours

• Made and fitted left vent bracket
• Trimmed panel for left vent plate
• Drilled instrument panel for vent bracket plate nuts
• Edge finished instrument panel
• Primed vent brackets and plates.
• Clear coated brackets
• Researched and experimented with ways to mount GTN-650 tray to instrument panel
• Made and fitted brackets for GTN-650 tray ... very precise and involved
• Marked and made rough cutout for GTN-650 in sub panel

GTN-650 fitting:

Sub panel cutout:

Instrument panel vent brackets: 3.5 hours

• Worked on brackets for air vents and trimming panel for vents

Checking bracket fit with vent in place:

Instrument panel trimmed for vents:

Instrument panel and misc: 1.5 hours

• Riveted 20 platenuts to brackets that will hold the instrument panel in place
• Worked on fitting vent brackets
• Organized parts for the "tip up / slider" modification to the canopy

These brackets will be riveted to the upper skin to secure the instrument panel:

Fitting left vent bracket:

Instrument panel: 2.2 hours

• Edge finished, prepped, dimpled and countersinked various brackets
• Primed and riveted brackets in place

Priming brackets:

Instrument panel work and misc: 5 hours

• Made and fitted upper instrument panel to skin brackets
• Match drilled skin to brackets
• Fitted and drilled rivet holes for lower side instrument panel brackets - took a long time
• Drilled skin to firewall rivet holes using skin as a template
• Removed upper skin - again

Drilling firewall edge:

Locating instrument panel brackets:

Upper instrument panel to skin brackets:

Skin drilled to firewall:

Instrument panel fitting: 4 hours

• Finished shaping the brackets for the air vents, 12 volt power, cabin heat and alternate engine air controls.
• Made 6 brackets for attaching the instrument panel
• Primed a few spots then installed plate nuts for the panel on the upper forward ribs
• Re-installed forward skin for fitting panel brackets

Lots of brackets: