We Build a Perfect Union (Page 28/309) madcurl AUG 23, 07:41 PM PaulJK AUG 24, 04:51 AM Honestly, I think I liked the factory hideaway headlights better but, I've never seen a rearend (on a car) look as good as this one. WOW ! troyboy AUG 24, 05:38 PM Archie, the lights are looking great! I feel like a kid waiting for x-mas. Did you get the specs that I sent you? troyboy AUG 25, 11:09 PM quote Originally posted by madcurl: Archie AUG 25, 11:51 PM Well, I guess we'll have to show you the steps we are going thru to finish off the headlight installation. After the last post I made we made some carboard cutouts for the hood the new headlights. Then we removed the hood. Here is a picture of the underside of the cardboard & the area around it ground down so we can lay up some fiberglass in that whole area. After the glass cured we removed the cardboard & reinstalled the hood..... Then it's time to start making the pocket in front of the headlight assemblies..... Looks kind crude but we do it like this all the time.... ........... fourpoint9 AUG 26, 12:03 AM Photochopped it alittle. Filled in the area around the lights for you and made what would be an easy mod to the grill. And smoothed the chin spoiler. Archie AUG 26, 12:11 AM After putting in all that metalwork, We laid fiberglass mat across the joints. That way we would have a solid modification when we laid up the fiberglass on the underside of the headlight bucket...... Here is a view fron the underside right after we removed the nose.... Then we remove the steel & the straps from the outside & figerglass the insdie surface real nice ...... like this.... Now, you may have asked what's up with this little notch we've taken out of the hood and added to the nose of the car? Several days ago when we were doing our early fitting of the headlights, we noted that when opening the hood the corner of the hood would hit on area of the headlight that is under the hood. Now we could have designed custom hinges for the hood but that would take a lot of time. Or we could have notched the headlight but for what these things cost, I'm not gonna chance it. So we came up with the idea to keep the part that was interferring stationary. Like this....... troyboy AUG 26, 12:17 AM Thanks for the update Archie. Hey fourpoint9 could you add this to the Photoshop replacing the turn signals. Archie AUG 26, 12:31 AM Here we have the nose back on the car & we trial fitted the headlights back into it just to make sure we're going to add the next layer of glass in the right areas ..... Now we're ready to lay the final layer of glass to the outside, we gring the Gelcoat out of the fiberglass parts so there will be a strong bond between the nose fiberglass & the new glass we're going to lay up. Here's what it looks like after the final layer of glass matt....... Monday we should finish up these headlight openings by using a little body filler & a lot of sandpaper...... See you then. Archie Sourmug AUG 26, 01:18 AM Wow Archie, it's looking great! Thanks for taking the time to post all the pictures and the write-up. Nolan