Today was all about finishing the cutting and trimming of the baffle seal edge securing and reinforcement strips.

Again, the band saw made fairly quick work of cutting the scrap 0.032″ thick 2024 aluminum baffling leftover from the VANs baffle kit.  First up was cutting the top edge of the front left baffle edge strip.

Once I had the top edge then I could determine the bottom edge, which had some curves and dips to allow for the spark plug access hole.

I then trimmed off the bottom edge of the front left side baffle seal strip and got about to dialing it in on the actual baffle side wall.

After another 10 minutes of fine-tuning it, I had it ready to go.

I then spent a good hour underneath the engine gooping up all the gaps I could find with black hi-temp RTV.  I still have a bit more to do, but I’m slowly getting it all sealed up.  I also spent a good bit of time gooping up the baffling gaps around the starter and the alternator.

I then spent another good hour plus creating the bottom aft baffle skirt edge seal strips and getting those fitted into place.  I have them pinned here on the external side of the baffling just so that they’re visible, whereas obviously they’ll be mounted on the inside of the baffling to reinforce and secure the baffle seal material.

With all the baffle edge seal strips held in place with clothesline pins, I figured it made for a good photo op and I grabbed a shot.

I did spent a some time cutting out some baffle seal material, but no shots of those yet.  Tomorrow I plan on getting a good bit of the perimeter edge baffle seals installed.

Pressing forward!