Quote Originally Posted by tigweld View Post
why not more of a pie cut narrow job on the hood, so the cowl wouldn't stick out so far from the edges?
because i'm trying to make it look like a Patrol - not a Jeep or FJ. The Patrol hoods are narrower than the body (take a look at my first post on Pirate). I will have a rolled fender all the way out to the cowl when done.

Also - the pie-cuts are hard. if you take more out of the front than the back (what I needed to do), and try to put it back together, the front of the hood where it wraps around the grill is at the wrong angle. I would then have to do several more pie cuts to get that straight - and even then it would be pretty complicated.