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Old 10-31-2006, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve1968LS2
With the hood on we were able to check out where to mount the aero-catch hood pins. The problem is that the catch (which requires a large hole) would need to mount in the most PITA place in the hood. Installing would require a lot of metal work to make look right from the inside. Since I am quickly running out of $$$ I will revisit this idea someday. We were hoping it would fall in flat place on the hood, but no luck.
I haven't looked under the hood of a 1st gen F-body in a while, but what if you fab some nice core support to fender braces and mount the pins on those? That *should* put the latches out of the way of the stamped bracing around the perimeter of the hood.
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