I chickened out and decided not to chop the car and also I want to keep A/C now that I'm old. Going to be rockin' the stock SMIC until spring when I'll re-do the FMIC piping to be 1km long.

As for metal cutting, I think I would've gone for the 3" hole saw as first attempt on driver's side. I'm sure it would've eventually led to the sawsall and cutting wheels