Amy at Flightline Interiors has been working on my seats for about a month. Got them the other day. She did great work - exactly what I wanted. The foam is from Oregon Aero.
Seats without the covers. I'm trying to decide if I'll leave the walls as is or get some of the material from Amy so I can make up some side panels.
I also got a carpet kit from her. Everything fits perfectly and there are cutouts for all the vent tubes and gear weldments. Really nicely done. She also includes foam inserts to fill the gap between the floor pan ribs.
Terminating the weatherhead connector for the manifold pressure sender. I did a lot of googling and discovered that although there is a fairly pricey crimp tool for these, it's perfectly acceptable to use a pair of needle nose pliers or similar, so that's what I did. Worked fine.
Installed a terminal block on the pilot's side firewall to terminate all the wiring for the oil pressure, manifold pressure and fuel pressure senders.
Everything wired up and connected back to the Dynon EMS.
Starting to work on all the ground wiring. I got the "forest of grounds" from B&C. This is the smaller one - 24 pins for each side of the firewall. Hopefully this will cover everything.
I also received the fuel lines I needed from Tom Swearengen at TS Flightlines. These are really nicely done. Tom's a great guy. The day after I talked to him about these he went in for "minor" knee surgery. The next thing we knew he was in the ICU - really bad reaction to something the had during the surgery. A lot of us on VAF were praying for him. Really glad to say he recovered fine. He sent me a very apologetic note once he was feeling better like he'd done something wrong. I was so glad to hear he was ok he could have taken another month as far as I was concerned. Getting better was way more important that any fuel lines I needed. Love doing business with folks like that. I've definitely met some wonderful people though this process.
Terminated the power and sensor connectors for the fuel flow sensor.
Sensor installed with the new shorter lines from Tom. Much better.
I decided to run another wiring passthrough through the firewall recess. Once I get the stainless fitting for this I'll install it. The VPX power wiring as well as the alternator field and some other connections (master/starter contactor, etc) will run through here.
Ran the #4 wiring for the alternator output to the ammeter shunt. This bridges over to the ANL fuse above, then connects between the master and starter contactors.
I never got around to installing the diodes that protect the contactors so I went ahead and installed those while I was at it so I don't forget later.
Once I had the firewall passthrough I could measure and terminate the #6 wiring for the VPX power.
Tom was able to make up a custom fluid line for my primer line. I'm using the Van's solenoid with the ECI Titan stainless fittings. The connectors on the ECI lines use a union cone. Tom created a flexible high pressure line with union cones on both ends and I installed a 1/8" NPT fitting with a union cone on the Van's solenoid.
I decided it was time to pick up the Odyssey battery the last time I placed an order with ACS.
Got the stainless fitting for the passthrough so I installed it. The grey stuff is a fireproof caulk they provide to seal it from any fumes. You also use it to seal the hole after running all the wires. I'll also use it to seal around the recess when it is riveted.
I decided to use a terminal block on the left side sub panel to use as a ground for all the switches. The VPX doesn't actually run any power through the switches, they just terminate to ground, so this was an easy way to do that.
Pretty much all the switch wiring run and terminated. The one switch with open lugs is the primer switch - it will wire back to a fuse block and the primer solenoid. The green wrapping temporarily securing the wiring is floral velcro. I found 100' roll for $3 at Walmart. It's a lot easier to use and do/undo when doing all the wiring rather than installing and continually cutting temporary tie wraps.
Primer line from TS Flightines installed to the solenoid (chrome vertical cylinder on the left side of the picture).
Switch wiring terminates to J2 on the VPX. The connectors are just D-Sub pins.
I decided it was time to finally rivet the recess into the firewall. Most of the joints are sealed with fireproof caulk, though there are still some holes I need to seal once I'm totally done with it. The firewall side of the ground block is on the upper left. The large bolt carries the load through the firewall and also serves as an attach point for the battery and dedicated engine grounds.
