More hood repair today, nearly done it now.
Wasn't able to get the driver's side repair quite as seamless as I'd have liked, but it turned out pretty well. Easy job to add a little filler to the low spots, and I spent a bunch of time eliminating oil canning from the welding heat, so all good on that front.

Cut the top layer off the other side:

And after a bunch of work I got the cutoff from the other hood all welded in in the right spot and the brace bit welded back on.


There's still some pitting etc visible, but I'd have to basically reskin the whole hood and a lot of the underlying structure to eradicate everything. Down that road madness lies, I just want the hood to be structurally good and not full of holes. I also want to go to a carbon hood eventually, so ehh.
Next up I'll be doing weld cleanup and then welding the outer skin sections back on.
Wasn't able to get the driver's side repair quite as seamless as I'd have liked, but it turned out pretty well. Easy job to add a little filler to the low spots, and I spent a bunch of time eliminating oil canning from the welding heat, so all good on that front.

Cut the top layer off the other side:

And after a bunch of work I got the cutoff from the other hood all welded in in the right spot and the brace bit welded back on.


There's still some pitting etc visible, but I'd have to basically reskin the whole hood and a lot of the underlying structure to eradicate everything. Down that road madness lies, I just want the hood to be structurally good and not full of holes. I also want to go to a carbon hood eventually, so ehh.
Next up I'll be doing weld cleanup and then welding the outer skin sections back on.
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