I'm picking away at details. I haven't installed my headlight lens covers yet, because the headlight buckets aren't sealed and with all the fiberglass grinding I'm doing I figured dust would get inside of the bucket. I'm at the point where I want to put the covers on but I noticed I can still see the raw fiberglass edge through the covers even with my painted border. So I painted the edges black and I'm ready to permanently install the covers with double side tape.

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I broke the studs for my hood mounts again. The first time was when I fell on the car and broke the passenger side, and this time the hood fell shut and broke the driver side. Each time the bonded studs ripped away from the fiberglass. I ground all the adhesive off, cleaned the surfaces, and bonded the studs again. But I'm finally reinforcing them with fiberglass as recommended. This is my first time doing fiberglass and it's pretty simple but I learned some things quickly.

My first batch of resin cured in about 2 minutes so I didn't get very far before I had to mix another batch. My garage was about 90deg @ 70% humidity so I guess it just reacted quickly. I mixed another 1oz of resin with less hardener (8 drops instead of 10) to get a longer working time (7 min instead of 2 min). I pre wet the surface, laid down 1 layer of glass, wet it out, laid down a 2nd layer of glass, and wet it out. So each side has 2 layers of fiberglass reinforcement now. Some of you on here said this will really stiffen up the hood so I look forward to seeing the results. I'll sand the rough edges of the fiberglass patches and paint it black to finish up.

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2 things I'm also working on. Getting my parking brake light to turn off on my dash. I found the single wire connector that used to connect to the OEM handbrake but grounding it didn't turn off the light. I've read something about running a 12v wire to it, but I'm still not sure. And if I rev my car, the rpm's drop really low and the car barely catches itself to stay running. I'm checking for vacuum leaks on the engine and did find the O-ring on my MAF sensor is rotted out. Dealer said the O-ring isn't sold separate and a new MAF sensor is $360. I found just the O-ring on FastWRX.com (where I bought most of my Subaru parts) for $10 shipped. Hoping that is my only issue.