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Modified by Dominican_Kid at 3:59 PM 7/1/2003

 

you need hood pins, its a safety issue, u wouldn't want your hood flying back and hitting your windshield.

 

I got 'em just to be on the safe side.
Here's where they attach:

 

I got a Fiberglass hood that shakes on the highway, I should probably get some too, but Im real nervouse bout pooting holes in my hood.

 

nervous about putting holes in your hood, but not about the hole in your head when your hood flies up and you can't see and have an accident. j/k, but u should get some, one of my friends hoods flew off on the way to nopi. luckily it just flew up in the air and didn't come all the way back. but the hood was ruined.

 

also depends on the grade of the hood...there are lots of people who dont use hoodpins at all and their hoods are as stiff and secure at high speeds as a stock hood...

 

Or you can be like all the ricers and buy or paint your hood black and put pins on it anyways yes the pins secure the hood down so that it doesnt become airborn

 

i've hit 105 with my fiber images hood, didnt shake or nothing with no signs of it flying off

 

exactly....just dont go buying those 5 dollar paper thin hoods...thats all

 

Yep I heard about that on Alisha's car. Problem was it was a cheap@$$ hood, probably some no-name brand. Also in her case it was the carbon fiber that separated itself from the support frame underneath. I suppose hood pins would have kept it from flying off, but it would still have probably come unglued.


[Modified by PatrickGSR94, 2:15 PM 4/2/2002]

 

how do you line up where to drill the holes??

 

Install the pins in the radiator support and make sure the nuts are tight. Then put a dab of white out or something like that on the tops of the pins, and gently lower the hood onto the pins so that the white out makes a mark underneath the hood. This will tell you exactly where to make the holes.