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so with that center piece removed from the grille assy., it tied my hood latch assy., grille, and lower filler piece together, and since I no longer have that, I needed to add rigidity back to all them again, and tie my IC into the mix too. so my simple solution was to make a cross bar on the IC, and have a stand off connecting to my hood latch assy. (my hood latch assy. also attaches to the grille, so it stiffens everything up more so then the factory center bracket that I had to do away with)