The front baggage floor is complete and primed.  A local Boy Scout troop helped me rivet one of the stiffeners.  You'll see I took the plans suggestion to lighten the stiffeners to heart.  I not only scarfed each end I also drilled lightening holes in all three plus removed the metal except where needed for the nutplates.

Cockpit (aft of front baggage to RCP seat)

The left Photo shows the RCP floor before everything is installed.  The floors were made removable using nutplates. The right Photo shows where the RCP floor was cut to allow removal without removing the flap mechanism.

 

	This is a scanned photo so the quality isn't great (I lost the original digital shot in the hard drive failures), but it shows where I cut the floor in order to make it removable.  The portion of the floor under the flap mechanism can remain in place while all other floors can be removed.
	To convince the canopy that it should fit right, it appears I have to raise the left side of the frame about a quarter inch off of the roller shank.

Aft Fuselage (aft of RCP seat)

Shortly after getting my plane I realized that I wanted the cockpit and baggage floors to be removable so I could inspect or maintain things mounted below them.  For example, I want to be able to inspect the rudder cables during annual inspections.  With riveted floors it would be impossible to inspect the entire length.  Plus, replacing anything under the floors, including the rudder cables, would require drilling out the rivets and reriveting again later.  I installed #6 nutplates to all floors removable except a small portion under the flap mechanism.

	Many RV-8 builders who use the IO-360 engine and CS prop find their planes are at the forward CG limit.  So, by placing as many items in the aft fuselage as possible, maybe I will alleviate some of that problem.
I decided to install the Whelen power supply as far aft as possible for CG yet to be accessable for maintenance if needed.  I also needed to keep it 2 feet away from the BMA magnetometers which are at the next bulkhead aft.  This photo shows where it is mounted in the airframe.	I mounted the strobe power supply on the right side of the fuselage because most builders report a heavy left wing.  Maybe I can partially solve the left wing tendency by mounting "things" on the right.	Here is a closeup of the mounting bracket I made.  I used others ideas and modified them to my needs.  The mount is made of .032 and is remarkably strong.  I may remove it before wiring and cut some lightening holes.

Here is how the strobe power bracket was built.  Plans on the left and ready to install in plane on the right.

 

As previously mentioned, the original owner's work was totally unacceptable.  I've redone virtually all of his work.  As an example, the photo to the right shows where he left out a spacer in the elevator bellcrank.  None of his work is trustworthy so all has been inspected and rebuilt.