Im about to purchase a cf hood, and i noticed it doesnt come with the holes for the hood pins. If i were to purchase pins seperately how would i go about installing them into the hood? thanks

 

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Modified by George Knighton at 5:22 PM 12/8/2007

 

Very helpful man.... =/

 

Modified by B18MOBBER at 2:25 PM 12/8/2007

 

sorry man but u dont need hood pins. leave it like it is... clean. do you really really want to use hood pins?? cuz you dont NEED them if you think you do.

 

yeah no **** i want to use hoodpins. I dont want that **** flying off my hood while im driving. Wow guys. U guys think im putting it on to look cool? Im doing it for safety reasons.

 

I think driving under 75 with the normal hood latch is safe enough.

 

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You don't want your hood flying off your hood? Why not?

 

And yeah its probably as easy as drilling holes into the hood and going with the hood pin kit, but I needed to know if there was anything I should watch out for (cracking carbon fiber) etc. But it guess too many people in their own cloud of **** to [offal] help.

 

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You don't want your hood flying off your hood? Why not?</TD></TR></TABLE>

zzzz

 

I moved this in the hope that somebody would actually help this guy instead of just making fun of him.

 

just mark and drill with a sharp bit. CF and similar to working with fiberglass so it wont crack unless you use too much pressure and not enough drilling. i say just take it slow and easy let the drill do the work. i just get scared when drilling holes in a 500 dollar hood.

 

There's a way to do it without cracking the hood. I don't know it, but if you searched, I'll bet you could find it.

Edit: Read the post above mine.

 

Well we just want to know why you wanted to do it. its not necesary but if youi must. I would tape the spot that you are about to drill with blue or white painters tape. mark out where it needs to be drilled and take it nice and easy do not apply to much pressure just drill and let it sink your done. make sure you have a good mounting spot on core support. also i would keep the latch so no one can just take 2 pins out and grab your intake or something also be safer to have a latch

 

And yeah its probably as easy as drilling holes into the hood and going with the hood pin kit, but I needed to know if there was anything I should watch out for (cracking carbon fiber) etc. But it guess too many people in their own cloud of **** to offer help.

 

If i could i would much rather have it looking clean without hoodpins i think they are the ugliest **** ever. But after reading about all these hoods flying off the car because of the latch failing id rather not take the risk.

 

advice is posted. tape, drill, mount.

 

in the case of latches failing that is a manufacturer saftey issue. I am assuming the hood failed or latch was damaged or someone accidentley hit there latch lever. You have a hood now on and it hasnt flown off so why would this one

 

What I did was drill into the radiator support bar thing, put that part of the pin in.
Then I put a dot of fingernail polish on top of the pins.
Layed the hood down so the polish made a spot.
Drilled the hole in the bottom then on the top.
Be very careful or it WILL spider crack.
Once you get the holes made, put the pins on then you may beed to do a little more drilling or filing and adjusting of the pins but for the most part, you're done.

 

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Carbon fiber hoods have a much higher chance of flying off because of their significantly lower weight. So the latch has to hold a much higher amount of force.

 

it's a good idea to use a pin, i had a set when i was rocking some cf overlay fiberglass hood(which is 99percent of the stuff on the market without a 2k price tag)

first you need to get the base stud to mount, once you get the location secure, put a spot of silicone on top, use the grey type for contrast purposes.

just sit the hood on the studs, the glue should stick to the under side and that's make a good base for cutting, mask it over the masking tape, draw it out and measure everything twice.

the easiest way to do it is to drill a smaller hold in the center, then enlarge it with a larger bit. do not try to cut all the detail with a drill bit, it's not suppose to cut sideway(like you will not use a knife for screwing in screw), use a dremel to fine tune the last bit of detail.

for the edges, runs some resin, clearcoat, silicone or glue over the cut edge, it will most likely to develop a crack if you just let it sit like that.

measure measure measure then cut

 

why was everyone giving riceforlife a hard time before? are hood pins considered "rice" to the H-T community?

 

if you ask me they are security. you may live in a good neighborhood, but for security you may have anti-theft.... alarms, boots, locks w/e better safe than sorry. i say get ones that look as clean as possible. even more so if your car sees the track everyonce in a while. there are plenty of threads that cover the same thing actually, and other people got real answers.


Modified by SteamedRice at 6:33 PM 12/11/2007

 

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Not only that, but they're not made like steel hoods. On a steel hood, the latch is just another piece of steel, welded to the rest of the hood frame. The only way it could break off is if the welds broke, which is quite unlikely. On a CF hood, the latch is a steel piece molded into the CF frame with CF and resin somehow. Maybe it's possible this could develop stress fractures over time? I don't really know, but I do know that all the CF hood makers I've looked at have a disclaimer that hood pins must be used with their hoods. This may just be a legal thing to cover their asses, but that's enough for me to not even bother having a CF hood at all, because I hate hood pins so much.

I even have a CF hood sitting in my garage (it came with my wife's Integra when we bought it). I'm trying to sell it on Craigslist, but people here are so ridiculously flaky that I haven't had any success (I've had tons of people respond, and no one will actually show up!).

 

i think top secret makes flush mounting hood pins