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Just wondering if anybody has a measurment on cub doctors later model panel for height i have a 51-55 version and its 8 1/2 inches from the bend. I need a bit more room for gaurdian ipad mount and g-5 and jpi edm 350 stacked with flush mounting. i could use probably get to work if it was 1/2 higher.
Forgot to say that it was for the Ipad mini. Also, doesn't the Guardian have an engine monitor function that does the same thing as the JPI 350? I think it uses the same probes.
Not sure how i would get more room with out adding panel height. i'm getting a full size ipad 10.2 guardian mount. That panel there is higher than the blank i have here mine i think is a exact copy of the early pacer pre 55. looking more closely a 1"would be best. flush mounting takes up more room for the g-5 and edm-350. Guardian does make a engine management system 2k plus you have to buy the sensors. The JPI 350 is around $1300 and is supplied with cht and egt sensors seemed like the best deal out there.
If you mount it from the backside you have to account for the fuselage tube that runs behind the panel just above what you call the bend. So... if the panel is 8.5 from the bend to the top you are going to lose 1.0' roughly from the usable mounting space behind the panel. If your mount is 7.80" wide it will intersect with the formed edge at the top and you will have no edge or space left at the upper edge.
If you were to mount the ipad holder on the pilots side of the instrument panel, directly over the panel and the cover it with an overlay you would be well within the edges of the outside height of the panel.
You could probably mount the G5 and EDM350 the same way, or raising them till they are flush with the overlay. Just an idea.
Thanks for the reply i now understand what a overlay is with that tube in there it makes that panel pretty small. You cant mount two larger gauges abve each other to the far left of the panel. I ended up going to a friends shop yesterday and bent up a sheet and cut the top off the pre 55 panel and riveted it on. The panel is 1 1/2 taller now about the same height as a later model bumped panel without having to make a fancy glare shield. I'm going to run the stock tach and oil pressure gauges to the far left and then the G-5 and edm-350flush mounted on top of each other then the i-pad. You could probably mount the g-5 and edm -350 in the exiting panel if you didn't flush mount it
How are you going to modify the boot cowl to match your taller panel? The boot cowl normally mounts to the firewall and panel top. Attaching to both provides the rigidity to both the firewall and the panel, not to mention the windshield.
Building a new boot cowl mine is in rough shape and just put supercub gear legs on also. The angle will be the same as the later model bumped panel just all the way across instead of trying to bend up that tough to build glare shield. This is pretty much a new build almost nothing from the original pacer.