If you have an IR thermometer you could try and see how it affects the temperature of the metal.
I ordered a bunch of metal from lmc. Expect a quality report. It was supposed to arrive today but UPS freight couldn't be bothered to deliver it in the 8 HOUR WINDOW the asked for today. So after much a$$ chewing later, it will be here tomorrow. I got the it didn't get on the truck excuse. If it didn't get on the truck the driver should have known long before 7 pm and I should not have had to call them to find this out. So day 1 of vacation spent puttering around the house waiting for a truck that wasn't coming. Not happy. In the mean time I also ordered my remaining paint supplies from SPI. Reinforcements arrive Friday now. Good news is it looks like the weather is going to cooperate now and warm up a little. Hopefully I can get this thing at least all in primer while I'm off. If I'm lucky I'll get it painted all but the hood.
Yeah, the hood. Went to order it from lmc, suddenly it's back ordered. Okay. Find another place. Order, pay a little extra because they have them in stock. Yeah, find out a few days later they sent the parts back to the manufacturer do to fitment issues. Now back ordered 3-6 weeks. So I don't know if I should wait it out or try again to fix mine and cancel. Don't know yet. So as anticipated, my time off to get this done is getting screwed up.