{"id":739,"date":"2011-09-07T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-09T06:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T06:56:38","slug":"ramp-crossing-bends-and-instru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/09\/07\/ramp-crossing-bends-and-instru\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramp Crossing Bends and Instrument Panel Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I trimmed the forward ends of the ramps to within 1\/2&#8243; of the final dimension and them marked them for the crossing bends. \u00a0These bends allow the ramps to follow the slope of the cowl inlet. \u00a0The ramp on the left side is pretty deep since the air filter will be installed here.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110907\/IMG_9675.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9675.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The ramp on the right side is quite a bit shorter since the #1 cylinder is farther forward.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110907\/IMG_9676.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9676.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>From the back side, you can see that the ramp follows the slope of the cowl inlet. \u00a0The ramp will get trimmed to be exactly flush with the inlet and a piece of baffle seal material will bridge the gap to prevent air from leaking.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110907\/IMG_9677.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9677.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I also trimmed off 1\/2&#8243; from the top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.experimentalair.com\/\">Experimental Air<\/a> throttle bracket so that I can have a little more knee room.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110907\/IMG_9678.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9678.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have this TIG welded to the bottom of the instrument panel, flush with the front of the panel. \u00a0I&#8217;ll grind the weld flat so that this will be a seamless transition once painted.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110907\/IMG_9679.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9679.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I trimmed the forward ends of the ramps to within 1\/2&#8243; of the final dimension and them marked them for the crossing bends. \u00a0These bends allow the ramps to follow the slope of the cowl inlet. \u00a0The ramp on the left side is pretty deep since the air filter will be installed here. The ramp &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/09\/07\/ramp-crossing-bends-and-instru\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}