Thanks Bob I appreciate the help, i'll look it over good this weekend to see where the cut will pose the least amount of reshaping for me. And also will heed Henrys advise and stitch the panels back on with tacks allowing for some cooling in between.

Should be starting this next weekend and hope to at least have one side cut out properly and tacked back into the new position so i'll post some pics of the progress at that point.

BG