Guys , This seems all correct information to me and the one point that may be a missed concideration is that the firewall is not the final and ultimate structural component. The bolts that hold the engine mount to the firewall is where the concern for proper building is focused. The firewall plywood essentially becomes one big gusset holding the entire front structure in rack. Joe Horton, N357CJ
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Visk via KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> me That should have said "good clamp design". You do want even pressure over the entire firewall. With were the firewall is there is no obvious place to clamp it down. ? I have seen pictures of builders shaving a little off the front of the frame with a router to get a perfect glue joint with the fire wall. You always want to let the epoxy soak into both surfaces before lightly clamping down.? And if you get squeeze out, you know your joint is not starved
