N247BR

Engine Cowling - Finishing

The completed cowling is joined together with the piano hinge pin and checked for alignment and fill.  Everything is filled and sanded until smooth.  Additional filler is added as needed.
The foam used to form the cowling inlet is removed from the inside and a little reinforcement glass added.
I setup a temporary paint booth has home in the garage to use for spraying the primer.  I was able to prime the cowling and some other misc. parts.
The primed parts were almost part of the failed paint operation on the fuselage.  They were about the only parts that I didn't have to strip and repaing.
The final painting operation is described in another section but everything was finally painted in a paint booth I constructed in my hangar.  The final cowling after painting is shown above and below.
All of this is done and painted now but the primary reason for almost all of the major work on the cowling could have been avoided if I had only made the decision to eliminate the Aerosance FADEC system earlier in the process.  I have not fully installed everything including the cowling and prop yet so I am hoping that the completed plane will look good. PS:  The overwhelming opinion of my fellow builders has been very negative with a couple who thought it was damn ugly.  I have to admit that I am not in love with it but it is functional as designed and I will be damned if I am going to delay one more day to change it.