Gregg,
The best souce of bodywork information is the factory five forum site. The "ask streetrod painter" section - The guy there will answer any questions you may have but they have probably been asked and answered a thougsand times before.
A couple of tips that Ive picked up:
1) wash down whole car with ajax or similar then prepsol.
2) sand or grind flat the seams and go over with body filler - the back of a hacksaw blade or good for getting the curve on the top of the gaurds.
3) Whack the areas prone to voids under the gel coat with a stiff wire brush to break through the gel coat - then fill with body filler. Bad areas on mine were around the vent openings, the edges of the door\boot\bonnet, bottom of the sills.
4) Areas of the body that need a fair bit of filling and sanding tend to be in front of the doors, in front of the bonnet where the seam runs across the gaurds, the bonnet itself was pretty crook on mine, and a few ripples in the doors and boot.
5) I used Rage gold as my primary body filler - K&H make a nice only called gold fine filler (more a finishing filler) something that I used recently and goes on and sands very nicely.
6) Gap the panels about 4-5mm. Dont try and go to close.
6) By a set of these: Best money I spent for the body work phase:
http://www.adjustflexsand.com/prokit1.html
Im no expert but hope that helps.
Cheers
