I'm too far from the hangar to give you measurements, but you may want to consider taking the inside canopy handle into your decision.
As designed, the canopy handle will impact the rear seatback bulkhead if it is in the closed position when the canopy rolls back.
To avoid this I put about a 3" piece of rubber hose inside the canopy channels at the back. With the standard Van's canopy and skirt this also just gives me comfortable rolled back clearance between the skirt and the vertical fin.
IF you decide to do something similar, you could back calculate the other dimension you need...
Please post some pictures when you're finished, sounds neat...
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Ron Townson
Okanagan Valley BC, Canada
RV-8 Completed Dec 2013
Membership renewed Sept 8, 2019
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