hood probs

[79widestep]

ok so i creased my hood on my 79 the other day when i was shutting the hood i'm just going to straitin it back out and put some L angle in there to fix it what i'm trying to figure is there a way to make these hoods easyer to shut ive been lookin at an 82 parts truck we have any one taken the hood hinges off off these and put it on the 70 style cause the 80's area freakin easy to shut or maybe some struts would work but i dunno if they would work these hoods are heavy and i dunno if they make struts strong enough to hold it up