Bill, I discarded the elephant butt, too.  (I still have it.  It's available...cheap.)  I've done the baggage floor with the 1/4" panels.  My kit came with two 4' X 8' X 1/4" sheets of honeycomb material.  One sheet of 1/4" was clearly marked for bulkheads, footrests, arm rests, etc.  I believe that it was +/- 45 ply.  I have very little of that material left, so I'm unsure what the bid orientation was on that sheet. 

The second 4' X 8' X 1/4" sheet was unmarked as to what should be made out of it, but it does have the 1026B part number still visible.  I made my baggage floor from this second sheet.  To my dismay, as you found, there are no directions.  So with a lot of help from others I was creative.  So far, it seems to be working, but I'm not flying it yet, so results remain to be seen.   I do have a very large and usable baggage space.

I've attached a few low res photos.  I also have a number of high res build photos available, if you are interested.

I left my hydraulic pump where it was installed on the fast-build, behind the FS-172 bulkhead.  Bob Pastusek moved his forward.  Moving weight forward is always welcome in the IV-P.  Especially if you have an electric air conditioner.  So moving the hydraulic pump forward is a reasonable consideration.

Barry Knotts
LIV-P, Conti TSIO-550


On 3/9/2011 4:47 PM, Bill Wade wrote:

   I was getting ready to start on the IV-P baggage area-