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Drilled the first holes into the Firewall
After getting the firewall into position I read in the instructions that the face of the firewall has to be 5/8"s back from the forward edge of the skins. The bottom of the firewall didn't go back far enough, so I had to take the whole apart and shave some more off the ends of the longerons. Apparently trimming the longerons 3/4" back from the front edge of the skins is not enough. Now everything fits OK. Here I'm drilling the first holes in the top skin to establish the distance of the firewall from the middle bulkhead.

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