you need the hood latch part secured some how. or the hood can blow open on you.
my ic came used, had this bar that has threads end caps and fits and gets bolted between the rad support, i had to cut the bottom part off the bracket then welded it to the bar, bar also has two tabs to mount the frozen boost 101 fmhe to it, then the bottom of it a bolted to the bottom of the rad support where that bracket was bolted in. i re used the bolts and nut clips drilled new holes of course....yes nail biter. i did slip some thin ply wood in front of the ac condenser and rad.
link to my ic install for any insight it might stir up for ya. theres two pages in this folder.
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