The forward baffles are reinstalled. One change I am going to make is to replace to elastic stop nuts I used with heat resistant lock nuts. I don't know what I was thinking when I used them.
There is a small baffle between the lower fins of the 2 cylinders on each side. The lower ends of these baffles are held snug to the cylinders by a spring, long ago lost. I found some springs at the hardware store made from .022" wire which should work fine. A very slightly stiffer spring would be nice but these do hold the baffles.
The 4 springs are a bit of work to install. It's easy to hook one end to a baffle, but fishing it past the cylinder and hooking the other end to the baffle on the other side of the cylinder took many tries.
If I were doing it again I'd make a long skinny loop with safety wire to fish through, hook the loose end and pull it past the cylinder.
A new air filter and CAT tubing gets this looking like a finished engine installation. The carb. heat tubes on the right were the easiest to install.
I never checked to make sure the inlet tube on my cabin heat muff actually fit into the CAT tubing. I had to use my fluting pliers, like on the edge of the firewall to shrink it slightly. If the muff works I plan to weld up a more permanent one so I'll be sure to make the inlet the correct diameter.
I still have to finish the primer lines.
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