im gettin a carbon fiber hood and i want to put hood pins in... how do i drill the holes for the hood pin... i dont wana mess it up... is there any special way or thing u have or should do???

 

Install the pins first. Then put vaseline on top of the pins so you can mark the holes in the hood. use a dremel to drill (anything slower than a dremel will most likely tear the carbon fiber), also drill from the inside out.

 

yea i might be doing this in the future so i would like to konw also

 

Wow, I am also about to install pins, this was a big help. Thanks.
-kev

 

where do you install the pins?

 

depends on the car

 

we installed some sparco hood pins in my friend's accord. this is what we did, but there are alot of other methods:

1. find a suitable place for the hood pins. the bolts will be bolted down somewhere on the frame (anywhere on the frame between the two headlights, or near the radiator support) or anywhere that would give nice clearance.

2. line up the bolts to the bottom of the hood. use some vasoline and tip the top of the bolts and slowly lower the hood so that the vasoline on the tips of the bolts touch the underside of the hood.

3. you will be drilling from the bottom of the hood, up. you can either take off the hood and drill, or you can drill with the hood still on the car (it makes it easier to test fit and stuff). make sure you put masking tape on the upperside of the hood on the areas where the drill will come out of (to prevent splintering).

4. drill, drill, and keep test fitting to see if the holes give enough clearance for the bolts. make sure you make the holes nice and clean.

5. now screw in the metal thingies (i dunno what they're called but these are the things that hold the actual pins and rings). after that, you can adjust the height of the bolts so that the pins can pass through them and lock.

hope this wasnt confusing. i sometimes have a hard time explaining stuff through text.

 

yeah , do what he said.....
but you can use a special drill bit that looks like a funnel
its better for cf

 

go to my site in my sig.

go to the "modifications" section

go to "hood pins"

follow the directions and you'll have installed your hood pins.

 

Nice site