Kuhniee

ok so i bought my eg hatch around a month ago. When i was looking at it everything seemed good on it but of course once you get it home and looking at t you find some little problems. I found that the hood latch works but the loop part on the hood is home made? and rusting. I cant get the hood closed at all i have tried numerous times and cant get it. I am wondering what the proper way to latch a CF hood is or do i get hood pins? if i was going to get pins i would want the aerolatch ones i think there called... any help and opinions would be AWESOME!

ennohohbee

def get some hood pins
cf hood without hood pins isnt too safe...even if it does latch good

blkcivic310

i think its your choice either way i have had a cf hood on my eg for years now with a oem hood latch and no probs at all

juz10

i ran into an issue with my cf hood also. mine was in good shape but couldn't get it to latch
i ended up solving it by putting a bunch of washers on the bolts in between the latch and the chassis
its been awhile but i think i ended up with 4 washers on each of the top bolts and none on the bottom bolt. its been working with no problems since then
good luck!

Kuhniee

thanks for the help guys, my thing was that A its a ghettoed hood loop not OEM... and B i kindd find regular hood pins ricy, BUT i see the use for them now but i also was looking into the areo latch locking ones cause i dont want just anytone to pop the hood and be able to get to my engine and the aero latch ones seem like a cleaner look... so anyone got advice or any opinions on those?

David12

aerocatch makes a good product. you'll definetly be happy with them

Kuhniee

one more question with those... how do they install i know with regular pins you drill but how would the drilling then cutting the CF work? is it easy or hard or what it seems really risky :/

bluebomber

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Here is a very thorough walk through on how to install these hood pins. It's not for a Honda, but it's the same concept.

http://www.nicoclub.com/archives/diy...h-cf-hood.html

justnprsh07

Don't rig it get the hood pins my buddy had a similar prob and it cracked his hood all around the latch

Kuhniee

sweet thanks and yea i wouldnt rig it it came rigged when i bought it