Fiberglass hood latch question

[Justin Angle]

Anyone here have a bolt on Glasstek hood? The hood latch striker bar off my factory hood is not even close to bolting up to the new one. The back hole is there but not the front. I reached out to them but still waiting on a response... Anyone thoughts? Does it require a bar from another car?
Hood is six pack style for 71 Duster

Thanks in advance

 

[GTX JOHN]

I have always put hood pins in the front of
my glass bolt on hoods. Myself, I would not trust the
striker to hood the glass hood.

 

[A56]

Anyone here have a bolt on Glasstek hood? The hood latch striker bar off my factory hood is not even close to bolting up to the new one. The back hole is there but not the front. I reached out to them but still waiting on a response... Anyone thoughts? Does it require a bar from another car?
Hood is six pack style for 71 Duster

Thanks in advance

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Not the best or the safest route unless you use hood pins as a backup. See post #2.

 

[Justin Angle]

I have hood pins but was going to use the latch too. May not happen though

 

[33IMP]

Nothing wrong with wanting the latch to work. But I would consider it only as a backup for hood pins.
Use the pins.

 

[33IMP]

As for the hood and latch not being compatible, I've heard this for years about the glass hoods for b-bodies.

 

[Jeremiah (jd)]

Can you bolt through the front hood support? Your other option is a t-nut and some JB Weld. I am in agreement that you need hood pins in the front. If you have a scoop in the car is driven at higher speeds you may want to add them halfway up also. I have seen a lot of fiberglass hoods that began to buckle in the middle including the one that is on the GTS. It seems to happen when the cars run around 100 or better in the 1/8th : D