I had my buddies Mike Bullock (RV-7, rvplane.com, EAA Tech Counselor), Mike Rollison (RV-6) and Steve Koziol (RV-9) take a close look at my plane for any issues prior to first start. Here is what they found. Slightly loose starter solenoid wire. No protection of oil cooler scat. Un-torqued engine hoist bolt. Oil cooler scat rubbing oil dipstick tube. Missing safety wire on a plug above oil vernatherm. Firewall areas that needed sealing. After they left, i set about correcting all the squawks they found. AND I got to fly a carbon cub!

Here is the original hole for the battery cable as provided by Van’s. I used the stock Van’s cap to cover the hole along with some fire sealant. I also used fire seal along all of the firewall edges where there were gaps.

Here is the plug that was not safety wired.

Several bolts associated with these adel clamps and engine hoist had not been re-torqued. I quickly corrected the oversight.

I’m not happy with the placement of the exhaust pipes in relation to the sniffle tube. I’m going to find a way to route its output out of the cowl.

Faces of joy!

I also wanted to visually verify the timing that was set by the EI controller.