Hi Tom (h82crash)
I was glad to read your last post as this is also what I'm going to do with my Extra. You said you had your battery "in the engine box" Did you mean "on" the engine box? If not how did you access the engine box?

Also I've go so much down in the engine that I'll have to mount my Cowl tilted slightly down to keep the Spinner centered on it.
This keeps the trim on the cowl from being horizontal to the trim on the fuselage. I thought I may have mounted my engine too low but my lines look just like in this foto.

Also I would like to know "How far your cowl overlaps the fuselage?"

Jim