If you need some encouragement, bobrev06x, you might check out the review by Francis DiNovio at the AMA's Sport Aviator website:

http://www.masportaviator.com/ah.asp?CatID=1&ID=53

He also wrote a second article describing flying the Explorer .40:

http://www.masportaviator.com/ah.asp?CatID=5&ID=55

You didn't let us bother you too much from restoring the Dura-brick, so hopefully that same tenacity will see this project through! Is having a knack for restoring bad airplanes a good thing or a bad thing?