nitrous_fed_03gt

just bought a cowl hood today for my 88 lx. its a bolt on but the hood dosent have the bar on it that the latch hooks to and i dont have my oem hood anymore. what is the proper name for the bar and where could i find it at. thanks

Redline5.0

Two options here, the first and the most common is hood pins.

Available from your local performace shop or summit/jegs/favoriteonlineretailer, they're cool looking, and allow you to ditch the stock hood latch. No bar nessesary after the addition of hood pins.

Second option - SCRAP YARD!!! They're everywhere, any stock mustang hood should have one.

Personally, I'd run (meaning I currently have) hood pins. My hood is glass, and was never meant for a latch. Adjusted properly, they have no downsides.




EXCEPT!!! - anyone can open your hood, whenever they want! There is no "lock" to keep people's sticky fingers out of your engine bay. My car rarely gets left in parking lots, so it's never been an issue. Depends on what you want to do.

Hope that helps.

nitrous_fed_03gt

i dont like the look of hood pins. if i knew the proper name for that bar or latch or whatever you want to call it thats on the hood, im sure i could come up with something on ebay

Boss_Hotrod

You do not need the bar on a fiberglass hood. That bar is a spring to help lift the heavy stock hood. All you need it the metal where the latch catches the hood to close it (the large hole with metal on the driver's side).

tohoopty

i got 2 sets of them laying around somewhere

nitrous_fed_03gt

right so what is the name of that metal bar? Maybe I could find one on eBay

Redline5.0

Nevermind egay...


Go to the scrap yard and pull one off of a car!!! I dont understand peoples fixation with bidding and paying shipping on small stuff like this. Please dont tell me there isnt a bone yard in your area.

nitrous_fed_03gt

wouldnt call it a fixation. just smart shopping if you know what your doing. there is a bone yard by me, but all the fox hoods are gone. and as for your egay, yea where done here.... move on to a different thread..

nitrous_bob

+1 on the pins

if the fiberglass lets go, or you don't have it properly adjusted, you'll be buying a new hood and windshield

nitrous_fed_03gt

hmmmm. Very good point. Guess it wouldn't look all that bad since I would only need two for the front since it will bolt up to the factory hinges