Thanks guys. Works been busy, so i'm not as far along on the hood as i thought i would be.
I have fixed all of the stretched/warped metal on the right side and center. I mudded the right side and did the initial blocking on it. I mudded the center area as well. It really looks like someone had been using the front part of the hood as a seat. Oh well. I got it pulled up fairly straight. The picture will show a crap load of bondo on it, but it really is a pretty thin layer once it's blocked out.
Youll notice two different colors of mud on the middle section, i ran out of my blue hardener and had a tube of red close by. The pink area doesn't look that smooth, it was 5:30 last friday when i spread that on there and i was in a rush to get to my son's football game. This is where i thank god for air files!
I should be done with the metal and body work by friday, maybe back in primer by then. I've gotten real proficient with tightening up large stretches of metal now.
The first picture shows a quick blocking of the center of the hood just so i could see the warped areas clearly. The picture with the paint stick shows just how warped the hood was. The third one shows how i got the metal pulled back up and tightened up at the same time, the trick is to do a circular spiral pattern starting on the outside of the stretched metal and working your way in, it probably took a hundred or so hits on each of the big areas to pull/tighten them up. The fourth one is after the metal is all nice and tight again. The last is with lots of mud.
BTW, eventually this hood will be replaced with a GT hood and scoop, so i can live with this much damage and then mud for now.
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