I elongated the forward edge of the slot further and made a few small cuts to get the canopy up to the bottom of the slot. Sorry about the blurry picture. This camera I’m using has been doing this a lot lately; it lives a hard life in the garage.
I did a bunch of research on what to do with the “ears”, and I ended up deciding to simply cut them off. This whole area will be fiberglassed over anyway, so you’ll never see this. You can also see here that I elongate the forward edge of the slot even further and added a curve to it to better follow the inside of the canopy.
Finally, I trimmed the sides to basically their final positions. There’s still a little bit of interference that I have to deal with. For example, here on the left, the bump out in the forward canopy frame weldment is preventing the canopy from dropping down all the way. I’ll need to do a little more trimming to get this to fit properly.
