Okay so here are some pics of my setup.
As I said this set up came from not wanting to drill into my hull and being unable to tap my pole mount bracket.
I used the stock ebox mounting points that come through to the tray. I cut off a bit of turf and found nuts and bolts with the correct thread and cut them to length. I then put the straps (with washers) on the bolts on a lock nut onto each and tightened it down close to the head of the bolt, so that there was just enough room left for the strap to fit. So, when I threaded the setup in through the holes in the tray, they could only go so far until the lock washer hit the hull and thus left the correct amount of bolt sticking into the tray. There is a close up that you can just see the lock nut in, it is kind of recessed into the turf.
I used an eyelet bolt on the one side and this is where my pole limiter connects to. It is a bit close to the primer but I’ve never had an issue with it. The eyelet was near-impossible to find in stainless with the right threads, I forget where I got it from, I think the West Marine website for like $15, and then I had to cut it down to length.
The straps are stretchy home depot tie downs, they randomly were the correct length. They run up over the back of my stock hood. They put a lot of downward and slightly forward pressure on the back hump of the hood. The pic with my hand in it, where my finger is, there is a decent amount of of pressure being applied.
At the very front, I used S hooks to attach to the pole pin. They do not interfere with the spring or anything else. I have been running this set up for 3 years. The straps only really contact the hood at the one point at the back where my finger is in the one pic, and are elevated a fair amount at the front where they connect to the pin. However, the contact at the back of the hood pushes the hood downward and slightly forward into the billet WDK hood hooks I have on the hull, which are very low and are not going to let the hood go anywhere. I’ve dropped this thing like a fool from very high on its side and not had any movement of the hood.
fftopic: lol back to hood straps... anyone else run hood straps with pole limit strap too??? 
