It appears that I am running behind my anticipated schedule. I expected to be finished within 2 years or 2000 hours, it is now 3 years from the time I received the plans and I have performed1550 hours of hands on work on this project. I let myself get distracted, there are no excuses. I have begun dual instruction in an Extra 300 in preparation of flying the One Design. I expect it will be flying soon.

The motor is a Lycoming roller cam IO360 with a front mounted prop governor. The heads were ported and high compression pistons were installed. It has a Light Speed Ignition, Air Flow Performance Injection and Sky Dynamics 4 in 1 exhaust. Just some basic enhancements, nothing unique. It has been run 10 hours on the dyno before it was shipped.



I installed the prop governor and the engine mount. The Lord elastomer mounts went on relatively easy. I have read stories about how hard it is to install a dynafocal mount to a Lycoming engine. I made a simple little tool to deflect the Lord mounts so that the AN7 bolts would install with very little effort.  It worked better than I had anticipated.




Here it is deflecting the upper right mount while the AN7 bolt was installed.



All of the rubber mounts were installed within 15 minutes. I started with the lower right mount and then installed the upper left mount, lower left and then upper right which is shown above.

I utilized a 7/16 diameter bullet in front of the AN7 bolt. I deflected the mount sideways until the bolt went in with firm finger pressure. I torqued the bolts to 250 in-lbs as they were being installed. I torqued them all to 500 in-lbs after all of the mounts were installed.