Well my Engineer tells me my Aluminum latch is roughly twice as strong as my steel one, below are his results, I myself dont understand what it really means other then I feel safe now.
I have a funny story about the chrome hoodlatch I purchased from IPD, last night while showing my car to some friends I started to explain about the hood latch, I reached up and grabed it by the spring and pin and it broke, what had happened is the jam nut on the back side was backed way off and the front nut being just spotwelded on broke loose,(I didnt install it) you couldnt believe how happy I was to see this happen and my friends didnt understand why I was laughing so much. sothe SLA master has come in today, I will start tooling in a few days and will have parts in about 2 weeks.
Carbon Steel .090 thick
Yield strength
5.5149e+007 N/m^2
A356 T6 Aluminum .187 thick
Yield strength
2.2059e+008 N/m^2
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Rick Klein
Hood-latches.com
Cast Aluminum hood latches.
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