Finishing the Oil Cooler Duct

Not much time to work tonight, but I got a few things done.

Now that the duct is fully set up, it was trimmed to size and the foam was melted out. It was quite a messy process. My hands will be covered with dried blue ectoplasm for  a few days ; )

Next it was trimmed and aligned using the cooler and the front template, then held in place with aluminum tape.

The cooler was wrapped in plastic tape as a release agent and the bottom and sides of the duct were glassed to the cooler. It is wrapped around the cooler at this point so that its alignment is held while I remove both the duct and cooler to glass the top of the duct to the cooler.

Here it is with the brace removed.

A quick check to make sure everything is still aligned:

Then the cooler and duct were removed to glass the top flange.

After drilling the attachment holes in the duct to the cooler, the next step is to bond the new lower cowl piece into place and finish off the outlet duct. I will loop back and finish the inlet at the same time as I finish off both cooling inlets. The list of things to do is finally getting shorter...