{"id":3244,"date":"2015-03-04T18:40:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2015-03-08T18:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T00:52:55","slug":"11-1-99-cowling-baffle-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/11-1-99-cowling-baffle-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"11.1.99 Cowling Baffle Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"35\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 15 of 17 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/11-fairings\/\">11 - Fairings<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>I&#8217;m not using the standard Velocity cooling plenum.\u00a0 I decided to use a more traditional approach where aluminum baffles create a box that mates with the upper cowling to create the high-pressure plenum.\u00a0 The interface between the aluminum baffles and the inside of the cowling is a flexible baffle material that creates a relatively airtight seal.\u00a0 On most other planes the cowling is sheet aluminum and the flexible baffle will slide up against the cowling.<\/p>\n<p>But my cowling is a rather course fiberglass. So to allow the flexible baffle to slide, I decided to create a smooth surface on the inside of the cowling&#8230; but only where the baffle will contact.<\/p>\n<p>I sanded down the inside of the cowling where the baffle material will contact the cowling. Then I used masking take to define the area and painted on epoxy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-03-03-1829-IMG_20150303_182934107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-03-03-1829-IMG_20150303_182934107-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2015-03-03 1829 IMG_20150303_182934107\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once it dried, I removed the tape over the inner area, sanded the epoxy and painted on a second coat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-03-04-1021-IMG_20150304_102108196.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-03-04-1021-IMG_20150304_102108196-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2015-03-04 1021 IMG_20150304_102108196\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now (hopefully) the flexible baffle material will slide as needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-03-05-0740-IMG_20150305_074025685.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-03-05-0740-IMG_20150305_074025685-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2015-03-05 0740 IMG_20150305_074025685\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"35\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 15 of 17 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/11-fairings\/\">11 - Fairings<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>I&#8217;m not using the standard Velocity cooling plenum.\u00a0 I decided to use a more traditional approach where aluminum baffles create a box that mates with the upper cowling to create the high-pressure plenum.\u00a0 The interface between the aluminum baffles and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/11-1-99-cowling-baffle-treatment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"series":[35],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-47","series-11-fairings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}