While fitting the hood, I discovered three surprises.

The build manual is really lacking in the hood area. Some examples... I couldn't find anywhere in the manual about installing the bracket to the hood (where the hinge arm attaches); one picture shows a different bracket (i.e., the hood bracket is point down vs forward in one of the pictures).

However, after determining the bracket points forward and making a decision on the position of the backet (again, the manual has noting on this step) I marked where to drill the mounting holes. I had assumed I would need to install rivet nuts to install the 1/4-20 button head bolts. Luckly, I drilled the pilot hole first with a 13/64" bit only to discover that the fiberglass mounting area is backed by aluminum. So, I could tap the threads needed vs using rivet nuts. Again, the manual makes no reference to this. Had I drilled the 3/8" hole needed for the rivet nuts, I'd been screwed! Ref pic 1 below, after I drilled the pilot holes, I simply followed up with a drill/tap bit for the 1/4-20 threads needed for the button head bolts



When I was fitting the hood to the cowl, it was raised up on the driver's side. Looking under the hood, I saw the bottom of the hood raised area was hitting the Tilton 3 lids of the brake fluid container. So, I applied painters' tape to the hood area hitting the lids, took a marker to trace around the 3 lids so I knew where to cut the reliefs. The next pic shows I used a hole saw without the pilot bit.



The next shot shows the hood back on and the brake fluid lids fitting nicely in the 3 reliefs I cut.



When I do the body work on the hood, I'll fill the three cavities to finish this area.

Stay Tuned,
Mark