Exhausted
Hours: 1.5 | Posted in EngineThe Vetterman crossover exhaust (with mufflers) arrived this morning. After unpacking, I took it out to test-fit. The flanges fit right up, and it looks like there will be sufficient clearance from all the hoses, wires, and such. It’s not really bolted on yet, just held in place with a few bolts. Not sure if it’s best to fit the cowling with or without it on, and it will need to come off to be drilled for the EGT probes, anyway.
Messed around with the control cables for the throttle and mixture, temporarily attaching them to the fuel servo. There is a long distance from the end of the cable to the fixture nuts, so I’ll need to move both of the control brackets one more hole aft before creating the brackets to hold the cables. Drilled out the mounting hole for the purge cable and fit that to the panel; that one still needs to have the FW eyeball installed (as does the alternate air cable, when that’s ready…)
Pulled out the cowling again and started looking at how to fit it. I have a 2×2 sheet of .063, which will probably make the camloc strips, but it’ll need to be done in 3 pieces as the dimension to span is around 53″.
The verdict on the AFS/VP-X amps & volts is that it’s not currently supported to source the gage reading from the VP-X datastream. Hopefully they’ll consider adding this in a future software update; it seems a bit silly to have a current shunt (and associated cables and connectors) when the data is already there. For now, I disabled display of the ammeter.
