Well, it's down to guts, timing and weather now. I had to add over 1.5 lbs of lead to the nose to balance and moulded it into bricks to fit within the front of the battery extension over the motor. There is one smaller piece mounted on the front externally and that will be removed at the time of cowl installation. I will try a few flights with it off to check systems and settings.

Due to the added stress I braced the battery box down to the firewall.

Hopefully should have pics and vids soon.

p.s. I've had nothing but trouble with the retracts on the Harvard. Their geometry has them traverse down and aft under landing loads and they act like pole vaults on even the smoothest touch down. I've ripped them out and another set of those beautiful Eflites are coming, along with a better set of Robart legs. I'm going to copy my mount mod from the Bear to that one and the plan is for this plane to finally land as well as it flies.