It's been a tough month to get things done as they are flying me quite a bit. As I stated previously, the lower cowl was not in the best shape (in talking to other builders, the consensus is that my composite issue are most likely caused by the worker removing the parts from the mold before they were fully cured). 1) The lower cowl was mis-aligned.. 2) the nose gear fairing was not centered. 3) the air filter intake was significantly out of alignment. 4) the cowl sides fit perfectly but the nose are by the prop is off. The following are the fixes applied to the above issues. The heat gun got quite a work out. "Rolling" the gear fairing to center it with the gear. Fabricated a new air intake and attaching to the cut down portion. Trying to align the nose pieces together.... this required adding some fiberglass to the bottom lip and building up to match the top lip. Finally, the exhaust fairing was epoxied and Superfil used to make a smooth seem. I only used the larger 4002 camlocs on the portion that attaches the cowl to the fuselage, I used 7 smaller 2700 camlocs for the sides and the inspection doors. TAF Torrence was using more of the larger camlocs along the sides which I thought was a good idea but I decided the smaller camlocs in the greater number would be fine Whew! Next? Install the props and run the engine, finish paint prepping and get the booth set up