If you have a carbon fiber hood and you use hood pins, do you still need to retain the stock hood latch? If you have a c.f. trunk, do you need to use hatch pins?

 

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you don't need to but people could randomly come up and unlock your pin and steal your sh-t.


you don't need a pin for the trunk, you need to understand the purpose of the pin in the first place. you need a pin for the front hood is that air passed from the air dam will rush out from the gap of the hood and push it up. in the trunk you have no opening or current of air pushing it put, infact you have a good amount of air passing overhead to keep it shut.

unless you have a gutted car with window open all the time while crusing at high speed, no.

 

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unless you have a gutted car with window open all the time while crusing at high speed</TD></TR></TABLE>
You're not too far off.

 

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I am sorry, am I suppose to know exactly what and how you car looks like?

geez..

 

I wasn't trying to be a dick, but yeah, my whole rear section of the car is stripped.

 

Keep The latch, my friend had a carbon fiber hood, no latch to pop it , and no safety latch... Hood flew up over a bridge, .. needs a new windshield, roof caved in, Nice *** carbon creations hood.. $500 bucks down the drain for the hood... 200 for the windshield.. 500 to fix the roof.... do the math.. keep the ******* hood latch. please

 

Speaking of carbon fiber, are there any car doors made from carbon fiber?

 

yes but not for accords yet

 

Honestly, what do you guys mean by hood latch? What part of the car? The actual lever to pull it out?.. etc. Just trying to be safe, I heard one of my friends hood flew off on the freeway.

I have a EK Hatch with a CF hood.

Ah, I think I know what you mean, the latch behind the grill.


Modified by EK9Tune at 8:04 PM 11/11/2006

 

Yeah, that latch