December 4, 2005

Back to the baffles. Clayton came by today and we started to put the baffles together. We did a little trimming to them to make them fit the engine better. This took a while as it’s a bit iterative. put it on, take it off, trim, put it on, take it off, trim. Clayton was loosing patience with me! We got most of the back and sides trimmed up to fit the engine, fitted the rear attach bracket, and match drilled it to the rear baffle pieces. We also made a wedge to go between the baffles on the rear left side near where the oil cooler needs to go. I think I need to take some photos of all this stuff so you can see it a little better.

Here I am making the small angle piece for the rear right corner.

I put it on and Clayton match drilled it with his weapon of choice…

Here it is in position.

Once we got the baffles on, we laid the cowl on top. We have A LOT of trimming to do. Here’s how much it’s sitting high by! It’s like this all the way around, and it’s touching pretty much everywhere.

Next week, I’ll start this trimming process. I took the baffle plans home with me tonight to read them fully (a few times over probably).