I did not have bending, but I did have wearing of the inlet ramp (metal) on the passenger side inlet. There was a gap at rest of about 1/8", but I believe that during the "dog shake" of engine start and shutdown, the baffle metal was impacting the fiberglass cowl - there is an amazing amount of flexing of that engine on its mount. I trimmed back the metal (or alternately you could trim the fiberglass) and the problem has been solved.
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Keith Brown
RV-14A Builder - kit #136
N314KC - First flight Mar 8, 2017, 24th in the air, >600 hrs
XP-400 Aero Sport Power, replaced with Lyc Thunderbolt 390
RV-6A sold
Sport Pilot (weight-shift control) - Airborne XT912
Dues paid 9/2020
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