Really nice rebuild job! Darock, I think we have the same instruction manual and my Sukhoi had the hole in the firewall positioned in the same place. I didn't like the supplied mounts, they seemed too flexible. I used a Dave Brown mount. This meant new holes. Also, my throttle needed a different location for the pushrod to exit. In addition, as you could guess, the hole for the fuel tank was in the wrong location for the mount. I cut a light ply disc for the tank hole smeared epoxy over snug fittong dowels, and plugged the engine mount and throttle holes. When the epoxy was set, I mounted everything to my preference, installed the throttle to my needs, and made a new hole for the fuel lines to exit.

As I mentioned, my fuselage had no down or right thrust built in. I'm watching for another one of these planes. Swap meet season is coming up and maybe I can score one. I'd kind of like to strip the factory covering, resand everything a tad to get the leading and training edges of the tail group and ailerons more "aerodynamic", then cover and trim it to my taste.

It is a shame things like this engine mounting are confusing. Not a problem for someone with a building background, but that leaves out an awful lot of new fliers. I personally think these planes are the best bargain I've ever seen. I takes so little work to get them flying and they are built as nice as most guys could ever build. And to top it off, these planes fly just great!