I've also moved the headphone jacks to the center console and placed them inside some new housings (also from Aircraft Spruce) where they make much more sense to be located and look a ton better. I'd also ordered new aircraft-quality jacks to replace the (Radio Shack?) jacks that were previously installed and had broken a few times already, not to mention the noisy connection problems. I've not yet replaced all the jacks but hope to have that done soon.
The pilot-side air distribution box had a broken plastic bracket so I fabricated a new one from some scrap aluminum and pop-riveted into place. Now for the final tasks of getting the pilot side air ducting finished and the kick panel trimmed, drilled, and painted.
Oh, I forgot to mention about having to flatten the normally-round SCEET tubing to fit under the panel. The tricky part is that the tubing needs to be flattened in a twisted manner because of the differences in the angles between the distribution box outlet and the aluminum duct. SCEET does not twist so a twisted flattening must be done. Using stainless hose clamps is also a little tricky as they too need to be bent and positioned so the screw-buckle is on the top or bottom of the fitting as not to rub against the aircraft skin or the inside of the panel. Perhaps heavy-duty plastic ties would have been better.
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