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I didn't get as much done on the beetle today as I would have liked. I'm working through getting the sheet metal parts fitted.
Here's the right rear part of the engine a couple of weeks ago
The stovepipe
is a piece that takes air that's just gone through the cylinder head (and thus it's hot) and brings it into the intake air to warm the intake if the outside air is cold.
So here's an upper view of the engine as it stands now, with the stovepipe installed and highlighted.
Here's a view of the right lower back side of the engine with the stovepipe installed. Parts are labelled with letter combinations. "C" indicates the #2 cylinder. "h" is on the right side cylinder head. "ad" is the tinware air deflector at the back of the right bank of cylinders. "sp" is the stove pipe; its entrance is just below the cylinder head. "prt" is one of the push rod tubes. And "hb" is the "heater box", which forms the lower right panel of this cooling air exhaust chamber.
The important thing here is to have everything fitted so that when I do final assembly, everything fits and is in a known state.