Here's my template full of holes.  The three on the right are the ones I used, exactly 31/32nds apart from each other and perfectly aligned.  Holes drilled.

Here's the el cheapo lights from AS P/N 11-06050 installed.  The low volts lights get feeds from the B&C regulators as indicated in their drawings.  The LASAR EI indicator gets power on one side and the orange wire from the black box to the other side.  Power to all of these comes from the main bus except the EI which comes from the e-bus.

Wiring of the EFIS units begins.  Here I'm just laying everything out.  There's a lot of wires to hook up.

Here's how I solved the hobbs pressure transducer installation.  The transducer is too big to go on the side of the manifold so I opted to route oil pressure to the next upper manifold by making an aluminum tubing run and capping the other side.  Cheap and not too heavy.  The other option was to mount the manifold on some 1/2" UHMB block as a standoff.  But that just creates more work.

Ran power and ground for the three EFIS units and powered them up for the first time in the plane.  The AHRS and Magnetomer are not hooked up so the units don't display anything meaningful at this time.

Here's the business end of the DB25 connector.  I soldered the ends to the mic (smaller of the holes) and audio.

This is my first attempt at making RG400 antenna leads.  Came out perfectly.  I bought a special cutter from eBay which makes all the cuts in one fell swoop but the bozo sent it to my old address.  So I cut these by hand.  First cut 3/16" down to the center conductor, being careful not to nick any of the center conductor wires.  Then crimp the pin.  Next strip the plastic out sleeve 1/2" in back leaving the shielding in place.  Now shove on the sleeve and then the B&C connector shoving it under the shielding.  Now slip the sleeve back over the shielding and up against the connector.  Crimp and trim any remaining shielding sticking up between the sleeve and connector.  Final result.

Continuity testing.  All good so far.

If you look closely, you'll see a four letter word being formed.

All systems go, ready for launch.

We connected the antenna to the GNS430, plugged in the headset and prayed.  Bingo worked the first time.  Here are two very happy campers looking very strange to passing cars.

Here they are soldered and mounted in place.  The first picture is a shot from the top looking down.  The second is a shot from the bottom looking up, sort of like if you had your head on the passengers lap, is that allowed?  We had a bit of an issue connecting the ipod initially.  The music 1 input being muted by any ICS activity the music is muted.  Turns out that the squelch was too low on both headsets.  Ipod works great, now I just need to get another 20 db out of it.

Some shots of the overhead panel with the pilot and copilot headsets plugged in.  The panel is not secured yet, just hanging on with a couple of screws.

Here's how the wire is run up to the jacks.  I love these glue-on wire tie holders.  If they ever come off I'll just replace them. 

While at the electronics store I picked up a few 90 degree B&C adaptors.  These are really handy, as you can see by looking at my COM1 underbelly antenna which gets connected to the GNS430.  The other COM2 antenna is a wingtip mounted antenna and gets connected to the SL40.

My wiring run from the panel to the rest of the plane comes through this conduit.

One of the things I hate is when a vendor sends you a part that is supposed to be installed with a new tool.  I'm not gonna buy a new tool just to mount 5 wires!  The AOA pro that I have is really a nice unit and I've gotten great support from them as well.  But come on, why use those MT connectors.  You need the smallest crimper on the face of the earth with those 26 awg wires.  Once I messed up the first one I knew there had to be a better way.  So at the electronics store I picked up some connectors which are more robust and I can solder them on.  Connected the dim and ptt and powered it up.  Looks awesome.  Here's a stupid look.

Again I'm making use of the 90 degree B&C connector here for the ELT antenna.  The cable passes through the baggage bulkhead and then down the sides through those little wire-tie holders and then to the ELT.  Very neat and tidy.

And here again the little glue on wire tie holders in the mid channel with some wire ties in them.

I also received some lexan back engraved samples from Aircraft Engravers.  I'm not sure which color to chose yet.  I plan on making a square backing plate for the switches and have each switch back engraved.

Here's the ACK ELT antenna.

Next I fabricated this little tray for the GPS antenna.  I got this idea from Dan.  It will sit on the top of the firewall, engine side.  Reception should not be hampered by the top cowl.  The top of the tray is the GPS stiffener plate which came with the antenna.  The other pieces are made from .032 and some little angle I had left over.

Today I also received my AHRS and magnetometer back from GRT.  They were sent in for a hardware upgrade.  I had some very early models (serial #39) and there a few fixes.  Anyway I hooked up the power for these and powered up the panel for the first time with all EFIS running.  Very sweet.  Of course my focus stinks.

Well I didn't have enough multistrand cable to finish this the way I would have liked but I have one wire with 4 strands and one with 3, and a blue wire for connecting the ptt.  I soldered the remaining wires and made sure to label them in my notebook.  Then affixed the labels.

For the two SPST momentary switches on the top of the grip I will have one for switching the com1 and com2 on the GNS430.  The second switch is for a/p engage/disengage and the wiring diagram from Trutrak shows plainly how to do that too.