I've got to pull the cowl off one more time to hammer out two little low spots in the top and to finish welding in the cowl to fender brackets.  I just tested the patch with some heat to see if it will take lead and it looked great.  The bead roller came in real handy making the patch.  I have to thank my loan shark for that.  It was well worth the two toes. 

So I picked up this morning where I left off yesterday and I ended up making a stupid rookie mistake.  I had the patch in the cowl nice and blended, better than factory.  So what did do?  I unbolted it, took it over to the table, and started cleaning up the back side by laying into it like a madman with the grinder. Long story short, I oil canned the hell out of my patch with too much heat from the grinder.  So here I am back to making another patch from scratch.  On a good note, the bead roller finally showed up today.

Still a bit of blending to do yet.  I'll pick up where I left off tomorrow.

Got everything fitted, only took a little modification.  Managed to get the cowl to fender brackets fitted back as well, and filled the obsolete holes in the bottom cowl.  Tomorrow I will be able to fill the stock wiper motor hole and hopefully nail this cowl back together.