Usual steps forward and back! Exhaust is now done.
Hood hinges installed, though there was a scary moment. I had them compressed and went to test fit and on one side i wasn't able to match the holes up... the G brace was in the way
I thought oh, looks like that'll all need to come apart and cut up and welded etc. So i went to the other side but couldn't access the bolt hole as it was compressed, so decompressed it and it wouldn't ft... then i realised the one i had was for the other side... so went around and with a big sigh of relief, it fit without going near the g brace. Being compressed it looked like it was in its settled position leaning back, but of course it goes forward when it closes, so that was a potentially scary moment easily dealt with.
I then found a bit of masking tape on the bottom of the rocker panel... pulled it up and found that it was left on before primering! I had put it there to remember where to add spot primer but obviously missed it when masking. So now there's a patch of bare metal, surrounded by primer. So that will need sanding, masking, primer and colour.
Then my worst fear was confirmed on the passenger door... I razor balded the door runs and you can see the dark pigment in the paint, so it will need a respray. The bottom of the door (under the swage line) is actually really good, just the top half has the issue. So i'm thinking that i will sand the top half, then do a blend on the swage line.
Also there is an area about the size of a hand on the front of the pass fender, above the swage line, that is darker in colour and the paint is a bit wavy, so seems like there was too much clear there too. I'm going to hit that with 1500 and hope that the colour matches. I really don't want to repaint that as it will harder to do blend as there's no natural break line along the side. Fingers crossed.
Final bit to repaint is the fill panel... it's bulged out on the driver side from me doing body work on it off the car, so got the shape wrong. So will need to sand that with 80 grit to shape it, then work back up through the grits.
Doing and all the sanding and prep in the evenings this week, so that i can do the colour on Saturday.
Then onto the dash, getting the glass, trim etc. in. Will it ever end?
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Finished up all the welding. Need to get some exhaust clamps now the muffler. Though annoyingly and strangely the exit pipe of the muffler can't clamp down enough to create a good mating surface to the tail pipe. The inner diameter of the muffler is 65mm and the pipe outer diameter is 63mm. But they are both flowmaster. So should be designed to fit 
So i don't know what to do about that. Unfortunately i forgot to upgrade the tail pipe to stainless 
