By suggestion, request, or whatever you want to call it, here it is.
To start out you will need to purchase a set of hood pins. I got mine off ebay for 27 bucks plus shipping. You can get ones without locks for cheaper, but the install will be a bit different. Anyways you will be able to use this as a guide.
The first thing you are going to want to do is get a drill ready with a bit that will provide a hole big enough to get the "pin lock housing bolts" through the radiator support.
Here are the locations for where I felt was best to put the bolts at.
It may be different for your car, but whatever the case you are going to need to position the bolts at the right height so that the lock pins can reach the bolt assembly. The package comes with 2 nuts, and i ended up puting one above the radiator support, and one below it to secure it.
Here is a pic of how far the bolts actually stick above the "fender plane"
You most likely arent going to want to tighten those all the way down right now, because you may end up making some adjustments after you put the lock in your hood.
Now you will want to put a dab of grease, (I used paint) on the tip of each bolt, and then let your hood down so that the grease leaves a mark. These marks are where you will want to center the square that you will be cutting out of the bottom side of your hood..
Now comes the fun part. Get a drill and a dremel ready to do some heavy duty cutting. (and i mean HEAVY DUTY) It took me 26 heavy duty dremel disks to cut 2 squares approx 3X3. You will need to cut the holes big enough to get the backplate to the underside of the top of the hood.
I actually took the hood off to cut the squares, it is much easier.
Here is a picture of the holes that i cut
After you cut some nice size squares in the bottom of your hood you will now need to tackle the top of the hood. Use a drill to start a hole. Preferablly the biggest bit you have because the locks are actually almost 1 in in diameter. If the hole you drill is not big enough then you are going to need to use a dremel to widen the holes until you can get the locks through the hood.
I do not have a picture of the hole that i ended up with in my hood, but you should be able to figure it out from what i explained.
Now that you have all the cutting and drilling done you can install the backplate with rubber gasket on the underside of the hood, and the lock and the chrome top plate on the topside of the hood. Tighten it all down with the nuts provided.
Now comes the tricky part, getting the lock pins to line up with the openings in the top of the bolts. This is due to the fact that the radiator support is parallel to the ground and the hood is not. Luckily our radiatior support is fairly weak so you can grab the bottom of the bolt and bend slightly as needed.
Also i had to shave the backside of the bolt slightly so that the pin that turns twords the rear of the car would get in the slot. At first it may feel like a tight fit, but let it be, its better to shave to little that to much, and you dont want the bolt to break.
After you get the locks to turn as they are supposed to and lock into place you are finished.
Heres a pic of the finished product.
Now go have fun with your updated security, and chrome locking hood pins!
Nate
PS - Normally i wouldnt point this out, but since my car is getting sanded and bondod as we speak, i will. Notice the miniscule dremel accident on the passenger side hood pin.
I touched it up a bit, but still noticable.
Just be careful when you start working on the topside of the hood.
