Ernest,
Same situation with the Lancair's firewall (tilted).  

Mark
(trying to do something on the project each day)

-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Ernest Christley
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 10:43 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: A little clarification...

Mark R Steitle wrote:

>Ernest,
>So where were you with your good ideas a year ago???  ;-)  
>

Sitting at home trying to come up with an easy way to build a motor
mount. 8*))

>I also
>like the approach of tipping the engine vertical and using a dummy
>firewall.  
>  
>

I wanted to use that method, but the Delta's firewall isn't vertical.  I

was just going to prop up one side of the firewall to get all the proper

angle.  The trigonometry got ugly real fast when I started trying to
figure in the upthrust and side angles.

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