Anyone ditch hood latch for hood pins
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I really don't want to do this but I have no choice but to run pusher fans do to large turbo in front of balancer. Hood latch wont fit now either.
Who has done it? Any pics and which ones? Any risk of damaging a stock ws6 hood?
Who has done it? Any pics and which ones? Any risk of damaging a stock ws6 hood?
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still has hood lock, but the secondary lever release is deleted. found many rings that come with the hood pins rust, so i got hair pins recently from home depot that are zinc coated and still look great
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Hey sprayed01, I was wondering the same thing. We built some brackets for the hood latch, but still makes me worried that it won't hold when doing a pass. We are going to look for something that can conceal around the latch as a secondary safety latch in case it gives way. Where abouts are you out of chicago? are you on TCG?
Here is an idea of how we bracketed the hood latch.
Here is an idea of how we bracketed the hood latch.
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Im on the northwest side of chicago,right next to Niles and Park ridge. I wasnt really looking to do it due to being worried of the hood coming off. My main reason was i had to stand up the radiator and i dont have alot of room for trans cooler,condensor and fans. Life would be easier with the latch out of the way. Im sorry what is tcg?
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Im on the northwest side of chicago,right next to Niles and Park ridge. I wasnt really looking to do it due to being worried of the hood coming off. My main reason was i had to stand up the radiator and i dont have alot of room for trans cooler,condensor and fans. Life would be easier with the latch out of the way. Im sorry what is tcg?