hey everyone, this is ericmattison81. I decided to change my name to something I represent like my car lol. forum-snowboarder, those pins should do the trick as long as you have the real pins instead on the replica ones used for looks. they pretty good cause I remember last year my friend had a head on collision and when I say his front end was totale, lol the only thing left was the hood because it was locked with the pins. I mean it even came off the latch and went into the windshield and it crack obviousky but the pins is what actually saved his life since the hood would have went right through without them. we used to cruise doing over 100 all the time and he buys nothing but CHEAP parts. he's a ebay king but never once had any problems so you should be ok.