cdeerinck
Well Known Member
The plans on the RV-8 call for the firewall to be bent forward by 8 degrees.
When I received by QB kit, it was bent by 12 degrees. When I first noticed it long ago, I contacted the mothership, and received the general "it will be fine, build on". So I did.
Unfortunately, now it is time to fit the baggage door and the over bent firewall is presenting me with a problem. With the top forward skin in place, the firewall is pulled back to the correct position on the entire left side, and on the top up to where the top of the baggage door is, and it is also correct at the very lower edge of the baggage door. But because of the forward pressure that the bend puts on the firewall, there is a crescent shaped gap between the firewall lip and the door.
It is not a matter of the skins not aligning, but rather the firewall next to the opening has an arc to it, and the baggage skin does not. The width of the gap goes from front to back.
Does anyone have any advice on how to relieve that bend, or to deal with the gap?
When I received by QB kit, it was bent by 12 degrees. When I first noticed it long ago, I contacted the mothership, and received the general "it will be fine, build on". So I did.
Unfortunately, now it is time to fit the baggage door and the over bent firewall is presenting me with a problem. With the top forward skin in place, the firewall is pulled back to the correct position on the entire left side, and on the top up to where the top of the baggage door is, and it is also correct at the very lower edge of the baggage door. But because of the forward pressure that the bend puts on the firewall, there is a crescent shaped gap between the firewall lip and the door.
It is not a matter of the skins not aligning, but rather the firewall next to the opening has an arc to it, and the baggage skin does not. The width of the gap goes from front to back.
Does anyone have any advice on how to relieve that bend, or to deal with the gap?