I did a little further trimming on the bottom cowling to make an even gap between it and the firewall along the bottom, then installed all of the retaining pins. Here’s all you see when you look up into the cowl exit. Overall, I’m fairly happy with these. The only complaint I have is that it’s fairly challenging to get the pins started because they have to lay just on the other side of these retaining clips. I think I’ll get quicker at it, but it took me several minutes just to get these started tonight.
