Here's a couple pics of the of the weak frontal area I did during the build. Custom cut a piece of lite ply with the angle and start where the former angles and go all the way to the firewall, I stayed below the opening to keep it lite. I can't really show a pic because I did'nt get any of it during the build.
I also put a piece of basswood vertically along the fuse side and the firewall to tie it all together.

Second pic shows the beefed up LG plate I installed, trashed the weak original.

You can actually see the first part of my reinforcement in the second pic, I did it in two pieces. second piece was actually a 1 inch wide piece that tied the firewall to the fuse side. The samll angled piece is really enough to solve the weak area forward of the gear. The other trick here is too make you LG plate larger and move it forward as far as possible, as the plane has a tendency to nose over with the original gear placement.