Next in the ongoing baffle saga are the crankcase baffles. These stick up behind the flywheel and stop cooling air from leaking around the spinner. In this photo I've already spent an hour of iterative trimming just to get them to fit on the engine.
These are obviously way too tall right now – they'll get trimmed substantially later on. The wire wrapped around the crankshaft goes to the tach pickup for the Lightspeed ignition. I tie-wrapped it out of the way so I wouldn't accidentally cut it while working on the baffles.
I ended up with more of a gap than I wanted between the inlet ramp and crankcase baffle on the right side:
Per the plans, I made a little bracket to attach the two baffle parts together. I also rounded the back of the cowl inlet a bit, and trimmed the crankcase baffle to match.
I didn't like that gap being there, nor how flimsy the front part of the baffle was, so I made another little odd-shaped bracket for that location:
