The hood popped off clean, and without much effort. I'm very happy with the lines defined by using the body (rear) and grille surround (front) as the actual molds. It should be pretty easy to trim for the desired gaps, and also to grind away the excess thickness on the bottom side to give the inside of the hood a nice finish, too! Here's the back side, and you can see the mold line defining the cowl conture:





And here's the front. Again, it's easy to see exactly where the inset around the grille is, which defines the cut point for the hood.



Once you get over the fear of cutting into a nicely finished panel amazing things can happen! Even the blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while!!