Nenofury, that's a neat trick. Can you take a picture of the installation or make a drawing for us spacialy challanged folk and post it to the Forum... I'd bet you'd see the Master lock sales skyrocket. I like the positives of the idea...it fit's all my critera:
1. Clean,
2. Simple
3. Homade,
4. "Reverse" enginering on all them fancy racing hood locks,
5. It's inexpensive,
6. and I wish it were my idea.
Drawbacks:
1. I'd loose the key.
2. The Lock'd gum or litterly Freeze up in Winsconsin winters.
3. I hate delays when I need to get the hood open... such as there's an engine fire (like that ever happens!).
I hope no one sees the duplicity of my thoughts here... as the AudioVox lock uses a key.
Does anybody want to improve on Nenofury's design? Eliminate the single point of faiure, the lock and use a hidden mechanical actuator? We could call it the New Imporoved Cheaper Nenofury Hood Lock... the NHL for short?
Humm..it's given me a couple of ideas. How about a new way to use that footbrake assembly (or a handbrake assembly) that always freezes up and no one ever uses! Or even removing those fancy gas cap and trunk openers from a car!
Use it to actuate the cable that sets and draws the dead bolt. Run it the cable through the firewall into a hand bent hard brakeline line along the fender liner and into the grill area. If it's done right it'd look factory. Then just enclose the eyebolt in metal rectangle where it's un-observed.
What a Hoot! Set your foot brake lever and it lets the hood open! I may just ditch the AudioVox /wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif!
