Another upgrade............hood latch!!

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Have you ever been driving down the highway and had your hood to fly open on you? I have and it's down right scary! That's not something that I want to experience again so I decided to upgrade to something a bit more modern. The solution? I used the latch assembly from my son's '97 that I'm going to be parting out. I figured that I may as well see if there were anything I could salvage before I let it go. I still have a few bugs to work out but it looks very promising.

upper latch I'm working on different shims to get it to fit flush. That's a 1/2" plywood block but it's a tad too tall. I'll probably experiment with a 3/8 and 1/4 piece to mock it up.

lower latch
under dash opener
hood closed