and if you have how has it held up?

 

yeah, it's fine.

 

I've been looking into the same thing. One site has CF hoods w/ factory latches, im curious if that will hold it on there well enough by itself?

 

I ran without hood pins for 1 day. It's not worth it without hood pins.... just my opinion

 

I'm running a VIS carbon fiber hood without pins and it seems to be just fine .. It latches nice and tight.. I've taken it to some speeds that I should not be at and it holds fine without vibration or any indication of trouble ..

 

RTW the ricer uses hoodpins. AFAIK he like them

BTW im posting from Mexico on vacation!

 

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You are on vacation in Mexicon and you are posting on H-T?
Go get a drink!

 

yeah, what flux said...but get a drink of non-bottled water

i also hear there are people who walk around willing to jolt you with electricity for $1 USD. try that out

 

It depends on the quality of the hood. With hoodpins it's much safer.....

 

i havent used hoodpins on my oem c/f however if you take the strip from your stock hood and attach it to the cf one it reduces movement greatly... i still need to

 

I ran a two hoods without hood pins but I would not recommend it. Highly unsafe. Even the heavier VIS ones have a chance of opening. Happened to a friend of mine. over 1 year without a problem and all of a sudden it opened up on him on the freeway cruising at ~65 mph.

 

no hood pins over herrr.......mine's fine

 

i drove around in my hatchback with no hood pins for over a year. no problems whatsoever.

 

You don't need hoodpins for a SPOON hood.

-Victor

 

my friends has an R and he has a VIS hood and he's had no problems with it flying up on him

 

my friend..jdm ctr '00 (Arman) has been running a VIS CF hood for over a year now w/out hood pins..car is not driven on the streets daily..however is raced at the track very often...latches nice and tight However w/ a CF hood..the possibly is always there

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Ive done that ****....you gotta try it Opie..that ish is INSANEEEEEEE

 

4 years, no hood pins, no problems

now that i said that, tomorrow my hoods gonna fly up.

 

2yrs and no problems

 

Almost 2 years and have no problems...

 

few months no problem, held up good when it was reaching 115mph

 

do the hoods come with pin holes and latches?

 

Why do you need hood pins on a VIS carbon hood? a friend of me has an itr with an vis CF hood and it's the same as the stock hood, also with that locking system what clicks in your original mount of the car.., just like the stock one.. ( sorry for the strange explanation, don't know how to say specific words in english.. )

even with an stock hood, you also don't use hoodpins? i don't get it, can someone explain this to me?

 

i think u would need hoodpins more on carbon fiber hoods because they're alot lighter so it would not take as much for them to pop up. My brother Leon, "JDMTegraKid" has a JDM Honda Integra and when he ran it hard, i mean vtec everywhere lol, he parked it and he noticed the stock hood had popped out of the stock locking system, just imagine if it was a carbon fiber hood which is alot lighter, it would have smashed his windshield. So just to be safe i would have hoodpins with VIS carbon

 

lol, yup, true, all true. I thought the windshield woulda been gone but luckily it didn't fly back


**** PICS OF MY CAR COMING SOON ****

 

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even with an stock hood, you also don't use hoodpins? i don't get it, can someone explain this to me?
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Because with most C/F hood, the latch bracket on the hood is glued instead of welded like in a steel hood. And a C/F is lighter and more flexible, so the left and right front corners tend to vibrate at high speeds. I have seen that happening with my C/F hood while driving 250 km/h without hoodpins. It didn't look safe....