I spent a good bit of time today cleaning up the seams and adding more goop (hi-temp RTV) to a good number of holes or gaps in the engine baffling.  I added more to the outboard seams on the aft baffles, and if you look closely enough you can see a dot of RTV on each sidewall where the 2 side panels meet.

I then focused on the front top center seam between the engine and the baffle segments.  Pic #1 shows the aft side whereas pic #2 shows the front side of this junction.

On the front left I had a couple of open holes at the corner seam where I added dollops of goop to fill in.

There were some openings that required coming from underneath and some down in the remote inner corners, which were hard to get to and harder to get any pics of… and some will simply have to wait until the engine is off to get better access to.

Overall though the gap fill is nearly complete, and I’ll be moving on in my baffling efforts.

One such task is the aft bulkhead in the bottom cowling that will actually be part of the baffling system.

I first made up a rough cardboard template…

And then mounted the bottom cowling.  You can see what I’m up to here, where the baffle seals from the aluminum baffle skirt side (upper) will seal against the bottom cowl bulkhead.

It was getting late, so I headed back into the house when I was greeted by this giant moth.  Pretty cool looking!

Tomorrow I’m heading to the Ashville, NC area for a “quick” (all day) turn and burn to pick up a Cozy III fuselage and a bunch of UNI and BID that a very nice gentleman, Forest, is giving away to a canardian that will put it all to good use.  His father-in-law started the Cozy III build around 1986, but traveled the world in his job so unfortunately never got to see it completed.