Carl: Good advice for sure. But, to do so will be out of the realm of capability for most people and hence very expensive as major metal work will need to be done. Also, you may loose points because the judges may know that the truck never came that nice from the factory. Just saying.
I got mine very close. Only real issue is a that trailing edge of hood on one side does not sit down tight on cowl anti-squeak rubber. I attribute this to the media blaster stretching the metal. The issue is minor and I chose to not fix the issue as I really did not know how to do it without most likely ruining the hood.
