NetHeads, I sent this to the CorvAircraft list yesterday, but it occured to me that you VW guys could appreciate this too. Back when Troy Petteway had a 2180, he built a nifty carbon fiber plenum for it that he said cooled way better than the baffles and chafe seal scenario, which allowed him to reduce the size of his inlets and pick up some extra speed. Jabirus use something very similar today. Anyway, it's at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/corvair/plenum/ . It sure is easy to do this on the Vair, and Troy proved that it can be done on the VW as well...
Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford