That's not in reference to replaceing a front clip with a round eye. That's kinda my point. But at least you were the only one brave enough, or was it stupid enough to take a guess? Jus Kiddin, I'm sure it was brave enough.
Did you know hoods have a design to them to keep you from being de capitated in a hard frontal collision??? It's true. Notice in frontal collisions the hood goes up into and upside down V or Taco shape? Side view would look like this ^. That does that by design and it's to save severe injury to the occupants of the vehicle. This design may not even be part of the hood. It could be on the cowl, and most have a small section on both the hood and the cowl, or the hood and the inner side of the fenders, and even sometimes the hood and the firewall. And sometimes the designed pieces are bolted on and many times, people not knowing their purpose will take them off the vehicle thinking they have no purpose or not needed that they may have been a part used to just make the assembly line work well since there does happen to be those type of parts too. Think about what can happen to a hood in hard frontal collision if the hinge bolts to the hood were sheared off. The hood could come right thru the windshield like a big blade and slice a person in pieces. So this design has hood catches built into it, to stop the hood at the cowl so it can't go thru the windshield. Therefore, the hood crumples in a ^ shape instead of staying flat and coming thru the windshield.
May as well esplain " 'druthers " too I guess.
Instead of building my 87 with the OEM Square eyes, " I would rather " or " I'd rather " or " 'druther " install a round eye front clip. Red Neck slang if you will !?!?!
