i got my cf hood today, and when i close the hood down, the hood latch is like 1" away from the rad support.
any ideas?

 

you did convert your front end over right?

 

is this and SiR style hood? or you have the EF8 front end and its a CF EF8 hood?

 

what brand is the hood?

 

can you adjust the hood mounting brakets to make the hood sit back further? if it lines up still...

 

its made by VIS, yes i have hte bumper, its on the car, the headlights too. they said they order it form japan. took two weeks to get it, so i gues it must be real jdm. this is a carbon fiber SiR hood for ef8,sir conversion.

 

washers to move the the latch closer

 

It looks like you are going to need a combination of two things.
First, get a round file.
You will need to remove the latch under the hood, the one that goes IN THE HOOD.
Once you have it out, slot the mounting holes so the latch can be moved towards the windshiled once it's installed. I slotted mine all the way so I can actually place the screws and then slide the latch in brom the back.
Now on the radiator support, remove both hooks and slot the holes forward, towards the radiator. Do as much as you can, but make sure the bolts hold on to flat sheet metal. It will work, I had to do something similar to get my Carbon fiber SiR hood to work with the USDm rad support.

 

ok i will try that, i was thinking of piutting like bunch of wassher behind the rad support so it could move forward, ill try both today and post up picture.

 

**** thats deffinately the EF8 rad support in his pic so i duno about rigging up the hood if that **** flys open ull be sorry

 

I had the same problem in the past. I solved it with hood pins.

 

its a usdm rad support, yes the hood fit but ther is like a gap on top of the headlights and the other side its like touching the headlights, is this normal?

made by vis


[Modified by crx_ef8, 6:14 PM 1/12/2003]

 

i think there is a rubber **** above the headlights that you can turn to make the hood sit more level.

 

Man that looks bad.
Work at it a bit. I have the exact same thing you have and went through the same problem. slot the holes on the hood latch and move the hook on the support to the front as much as you can. Take a look at my front end. US rad support, no nuts to make the hood close.

 

get the jdm radiator support and you will be set...

 

how much did you guys pay for the vis CF EF8 hoods?

My metal one was damaged really bad so I'm gonna get a CF one.

 

yea i know it looks bad, it just gona be their for a while

is your hood carbon fiber? show me how to do it like yours, draw somthing in the pic or something