I realized the whole trying to flex it and coat the inside was just plain silly so what I did was trim the halves until they fit then built up the outside where I could now that it was trimmed to clear the tiny spots.
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Then glass over the bondo
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then flip them over and grind the bondo back out from the inside...its pretty obvious where it is so I grind though the original glass and stop when I hit the new glass
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Making them reshaped and bondo free
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Then put the halves back together and smooth it out and its better than the first 1. Making the plug the right shape to begin with would have been a lot easier but....
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Now I need to mount the filter so I'm making glass adapter plates the that will fit the back of the housing which I will screw to the back of the filters and attach to the housings with clip-on nuts and screws which should make pulling the filter to clean pretty easy. Haven't quite decided how to attach the the car yet....probably just glue with a few screws for security as they shouldn't need to come out very often
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