after seeing Rian wax his -7 this weekend I was inspired. I used to wax n3773 every annual, but have gotten lax lately. looks pretty good for a 17 yr old plane that has flown the equivalent of 8 times around the world. I had vinyl graphics before vans used it on their -9 proto [they called me with questions]. I switched to round inlets long ago, copying lancairs,[before sam james cowls were avail] after repeated cracks with the stock inlets and reports that air actually flowed out near the center of those rectangular inlets. at one time I tried extending the carb inlet right up to the prop like I had seen on reno racers. high angle of attack brought on a stumbling of a starved engine. that got sawed off real quickly! now my mods are like adding a step for my passenger and, ugg, old 14-01-31 spar cracks [what a pain that was].