Guys, don't worry about it. The guy made a mistake and linked to a picture that was just taken a couple months prior to completion. He isn't currently building a kit, so he didn't know entirely what he was looking at, and was just trying to help. It takes a while to get all the hoses and cable routings secured in places that work well, and keep all hoses and cables from being near exhaust or rubbing engine mounts or other things, so it was just a work in progress and he didn't know that. It didn't bug me at all until I started seeing that more and more people got led into the weeds and thought that was how it was when flying.
My point is, make sure you get context from the actual picture taker when looking at things like this, because these forums can lead you into the weeds real easily.
Case in point: on the RV-14 the plans have had multiple errors so far, with drawings depicting things that are leftover from the RV-10, but changed in the RV-14. I was going along fine, having built an RV-10 wing before, until I had to scratch my head a few times on one area because plans and drawings didn't match up. Then I stumbled on ONE guy's post on VAF's 14 forum (and I don't even know that the guy is even BUILDING one himself), that made some comment that was totally wrong, but led me to start to think down that path. Long story short, I had to buy $50+ in wing ribs and shipping because I started to listen to something on the forum, from someone who probably didn't have a clue, because he only built a 10 and wasn't building a 14. Today, I've finally got the new parts all prepped and am caught up. It's not his fault, as it's MY responsibility to thoroughly review things until they are clear, but Van's didn't make it easier by having improper drawings in the plans, and this guy didn't make it easier by making comments about things he doesn't understand.
So take it all with a grain of salt, and I don't think "Trust-but-verify" even applies....better to just plain not trust.
BTW: I wasn't real angry, just a little irked that others were starting to make improper assumptions, and the concepts were so ridiculous that they made ME look stuipd. But I agree, I didn't think it was un-civil. If you do, then I'm sorry.
Oh, and my cable connection is per-plans, and works fine. Also, you will want to put some heat shield around the mixture cable, and the fuel line in that region. Even though my hose and cable are a few inches from the exhaust, it's far safer with some form of silver heat shield, and keep those lines as far as you can from the hot stuff.
This one is more like the finished product:
Tim