I finished up bending and match drilling the stiffener to the top of the panel. I could rivet it on now, but I think I'll wait until I get to the point where I cut the panel for instruments.
All of the front deck parts are going to be hard to explain without referencing the drawings. I can barely understand them when I'm staring at the drawings myself! There is a subpanel which sets in between the instrument panel and the firewall. I started with cutting the center channel and rib to size and match drilled them to the center subpanel.
Two stub ribs get fabricated from some channel.
The instructions say to drill these with the subpanel, but there's no indication of how they need to set vertically in relation to everything else (if I set the even with the wrong part, they won't match up with the skin - the skin is slightly curved down at this location). I'll have to put some other parts together first and see if it becomes more clear.
The instructions don't say anything about putting these two large ribs in place yet, but I think they are the reference I need to get the stub ribs located accurately. I may actually cleco all of this upside down on the skin since that's the ultimate reference.
I didn't get a picture of it, but I also fit the engine cable bracket to the center subpanel. I'll hold off on doing anything beyond match drilling it though. I don't want to locate nut plates on it (to hold the adel clamps that will hold the various cables) until I know where the engine control cables will have to come through the firewall.
