I am finally comeing to the end of attaching the cladding and was thinking that since i was going to us some type of locking device on the rear hood I needed to start thinking about it before doing the final riviting on the firewall. I have done some research by checking all the posts concerning this topic and have come down to trying to chose between two solutions.
Hershal has a good one but the price for the clips seems hight to me ($104 US per side). The second idea was to use hood latches from an existing car. i noted that some of you have used those from the original Mini. Since that is not an option here in the states I went to a salvage yard and took a look at what was available. The lataches fro a 86 to 90 Accura Legend look to be perfect. The units are compact, they bold onto the donar car instead of being rivited and the car has two of them so you only need one donar car.
My question is can anyone post a picture of the bracket that was made to mount the latches? I'm trying to see if I should make accomadations now or can i wait till i am fitting the body.
Peter
Hershal has a good one but the price for the clips seems hight to me ($104 US per side). The second idea was to use hood latches from an existing car. i noted that some of you have used those from the original Mini. Since that is not an option here in the states I went to a salvage yard and took a look at what was available. The lataches fro a 86 to 90 Accura Legend look to be perfect. The units are compact, they bold onto the donar car instead of being rivited and the car has two of them so you only need one donar car.
My question is can anyone post a picture of the bracket that was made to mount the latches? I'm trying to see if I should make accomadations now or can i wait till i am fitting the body.
Peter