Bored no longer!

The G-60 mounted real easy and ended up the perfect distance from the firewall on 60mm HK standoffs. Got about a half inch between the back of the APC prop and the cowl. The wood prop will have to use the 10mm collet adaptor that came with the motor, and will be maybe a 1/4" further forward.

After getting the motor in I put it all back together, taped the packs and the ESC (on the table under the nose) to the firewall and did a preliminary balance check at 3.5" back from the upper leading edge. (That represents 25% of MAC, which I prefer over the 4" in the book.) It was not terribly out of balance, but the tail did hang low, so I need to locate the packs as close to the back of the dummy engine as I can. (This is all without the lead block box. )

I'll be making a "false" firewall that will start out by attaching to the cowl blocks, then will have further attach points added between it and the real firewall. I plan to construct some vertical boxes on each side of the motor, built onto the false firewall, so that the packs can be slid up into them from the bottom. (I'll be cutting away just about all of the bottom of the cowl between the mounting blocks and aft of the dummy engine.) After all that's done and the packs are securely mounted, I'll recheck the CG before installing and wiring the ESC. Whew.