>> paul jerry asked me to forward this to you he was going to be
>> off line. top bolt holes center to center is 40 1/4''  bottom
>> bolt  holes center to center is 403/8'',  from  bottom of lower
>> mount to top of upper mount is 29 1/8'' these from inside of
>> hard points ( these are inside the square tube measurements )
>> if i confuse you yell back and ill fax you a picture .
>> thanx bobby c
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>> Thanks Bobby but I don't need them as I have a set of BD4 plans.
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>> Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
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> The bushings at the firewall are rotated to vertical because of the
> swing out engine mount.  Our mount will not have this feature so the
> bushings should be perpendicular to the fire wall.   Might be a
> problem.  What does the firewall look like?      jerry
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> What you are proposing is going to be hard to do Jerry.
> Those sockets for the swing out motor mount are very ingeniously
> extension of the four extruded longerons. A brilliant way of
> feeding the motor mount loads into the fuselage structure. Say
> what you will about Jim Bede's business ethics but he was a
> brilliant engineer.
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> Do it like the plans.

I just checked Bob's web site and sure enough there are the vertical
bushings on the mount that I built.  I don't remember it all.  I
wonder how I accomplished that?  Jerry