Make sure you can adjust your mixture with the cowl on! Your high-speed needle may need a click or two one way or the other on any given day. If you have to remove your cowl to adjust it, chances are you won't!
Took my Extra out to the field today, but forgot the belly-pan at home

Didn't feel like filling the radio compartment with spooge, so I loaded back up and went to attack a turkey! (Thanksgiving up here in Canada eh!).