Snuck out to the shop to do a quick project. Made the modifications to the fuel valve support bracket to accommodate the andair fuel valve. I had ordered some 0.063” stock for antenna doublers that works pretty well for this too.
Just roughly laid out the holes then used the template from andair to center punch the holes. Then drilled those to size with a #12 and a unibody for the big middle hole. Then used the original bracket to lay out some lines for cutting the plate.
Then match drilled the new plate to the old. There is only about three spots on either side with adequate edge distance from all the lightening holes in the original bracket but that should do fine. Then I cut the original bracket leaving only the ends and the new river holes.
Came out good. Nice little night cap project.
10/5: followed up this morning with a little trimming and lightening. Looks much nicer now, and I shaved off 0.000001 pounds.
10/6: ran the fuel lines from the selector to the fuel pump and up to the firewall. Temporarily installed the fuel pump. Finally made the mistake that everyone has made - flared the pipe without the nut in place. It was fortunately recoverable; pipe was a little too long anyways. Ordered the rubber pads from ACS.