carbon fiber hood

[tsi009]

Guys, i have a little accident with a police officer on the freeway. My hood wont closed right, so i decided to get a carbon fiber one. Will i use hood lock instead of latch to hld the hood down. Good idea? ### i think my hood latch bent..

 

[iwannagofast89]

You can use your hood latch, but I've seen people that get them stuck shut (unless you can swap the metal latch over the the c/f hood), or you can use the hood pins

 

[Booster-Shot]

Youll need hoodpins no matter what.

 

[GreddyGst]

Guys, i have a little accident with a police officer on the freeway. My hood wont closed right, so i decided to get a carbon fiber one. Will i use hood lock instead of latch to hld the hood down. Good idea? ### i think my hood latch bent..

wow I live in pinole too. Tara hills, nice to find another local close by sorry to hear about your car. Did you really hit a police car?

Well if you haven't bought a Carbon Fiber hood yet. You can get it from us, our prices are pretty much unbeatable
http://hirevperformance.net/hoods1.html or if you have a 2g http://hirevperformance.net/hoods2.html

The latch could be bent, you can probably tell if you look at it. Take a pic for us too if you want us to confirm. I'm sure you can bend it back or pick up one at a local junkyard (There's a pick n pull in San pablo) I've seen some DSMs there.

Like Booster shot said, I recommend hood pins to be on the safe side...we carry that too http://hirevperformance.net/hoforyo1g.html

 

[iwannagofast89]

Youll need hoodpins no matter what.

My friend has a C/F hood and he doesn't have hood pins

 

[turbosax2]

My friend has a C/F hood and he doesn't have hood pins

Tell him to get some. Now.

 

[iwannagofast89]

why He's had it for like 5 month

 

[turbosax2]

why He's had it for like 5 month

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193164&highlight=hood+pins

 

[Defiant]

From that thread, "Why":

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[InfiniteGSX]

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I'm living proof of this one. My black 98 GS-Turbo, I went down the road with the new crate motor and when I got up to normal cruising speeds, the hood ripped through the latch (very windy also) and slammed into my window... IT was very scary, I had to stick my head out of the window to see where I was going in order to pull over.

You want hood pins, I wont ever do a CF Hood now without them. Sometimes your safe for a while, hell you could go a year without them... but sooner or later something is going to go wrong, where that lightweight hood is going to be your worst nightmare.

 

[Talesin]

Wow, I thought everyone had seen those pictures... guess not. Well, hopefully he'll get a set ASAP.

 

[tstkl]

edwin managed to pull that one off with hoodpins, ... he had those flush locking type that you can't tell from the top if they are locked or not though, so its not THAT bad. Now he has master(R) locks on that bad boy,


also, another dsm'er on here put a cf hood off ebay on his s2k without pins and the latch just unscrewed it self from the hood while he was on the freeway, PROBABLY the way he drives tho,...

 

[Booster-Shot]

What a waste after all that money

 

[95CarbonEclipse]

Youll need hoodpins no matter what.

I'd have to disagree with that statement. Just because there's been a few incidents where people's hood's have 'de-latched' that doesn't mean that a statement like "You'll need hoodpins, no matter what" is true. In that case... everyone with a 2g 7-bolt motor will need to do a 6-bolt swap no matter what.

I've owned my carbon fiber hood for 3 years now and never not once had this happen. Does that mean that it won't ever happen? ...no. Does it mean that it's definitely going to happen? ...also no. Is it safer to have hoodpins just in case? ...probably.

So, if you're currently driving around with a hood on your car, there's a possibility it could come unlatched and smash your windshield... you'd better go get hood pins pronto, or else!

 

[Booster-Shot]

I'd have to disagree with that statement. Just because there's been a few incidents where people's hood's have 'de-latched' that doesn't mean that a statement like "You'll need hoodpins, no matter what" is true. In that case... everyone with a 2g 7-bolt motor will need to do a 6-bolt swap no matter what.

I've owned my carbon fiber hood for 3 years now and never not once had this happen. Does that mean that it won't ever happen? ...no. Does it mean that it's definitely going to happen? ...also no. Is it safer to have hoodpins just in case? ...probably.

So, if you're currently driving around with a hood on your car, there's a possibility it could come unlatched and smash your windshield... you'd better go get hood pins pronto, or else!

Well saying that to nubs who say, "well its never happenend to me, I dont need them" wont make them think its important.

I dont see any reason why you wouldnt buy hoodpins.

You NEED hoodpins.

 

[Defiant]

The point has been made. If you care to argue the soundness of the concept, do it in the Hangout.