CF hood owners check in

[92sho16]

My car is coming out of storage in about a week or so and i was wondering how many people are running hood pins. And for those who do, any body do anything special when installing them?

 

[Justin101]

i am, i got some nice sparco ones, nothin too special to installing them since i had someone else do em................LOL

 

[SinisterSHO]

We didn't really do anything special. I dont have a latch on the car at all so we had to use pieces of rubber hose to get the hood to sit where it should. Could still be a little higher, but I might put the latch on at some point. Just make sure you find a good place to drill.

 

[92sho16]

We didn't really do anything special. I dont have a latch on the car at all so we had to use pieces of rubber hose to get the hood to sit where it should. Could still be a little higher, but I might put the latch on at some point. Just make sure you find a good place to drill.

Do you have any close ups of of how your pins are?

 

[SableSal]

I'm pinned. I also added carbon fiber overlays to the chrome plate of the pins matched to the weave. It's totally bad ass.

You'll see pics of it if I get around to post pics of this weekend's Fabulous Fords Weekend.

Anyhow, I would pin it. Just cause I'm a worry freak. On the Gen3s, it's fairly easy to pin em. On the gen2s, Im not too sure.

Good Luck!





Sal

 

[SinisterSHO]

I dont, but I can take some. Wont be until Monday at the earliest, though.

 

[92sho16]

I dont, but I can take some. Wont be until Monday at the earliest, though.

If all goes well i will get my car out on wed. so hood wont go on until earliest of next weekend, so im not in a rush.

 

[1993MTXSHO]

i just bought a cf cowl hood why do you guys use pins why dont you just use the latch?

 

[SHOOFF13]

1993mtxsho I myself don't own the carbon fiber cowl hood I own the regular cincy cowl hood, but I know a lot of guys around my area with the carbon fiber hood and if you don't tend to use hood pins the hood flies up on you a lot using the stock latch, thats why the hood pins are needed. The hood is too light and the wind causes it to fly up.

 

[1993MTXSHO]

does the safty catch it? or sometimes it misses cuz i do close to 100 at the strip a lot and umm say if I was doin 140 150 that might not really hod up then huh?

 

[SuperchargedSHOguy]

I just installed one I had lying around on my 94 ATX today. I will load up pics tomorrow.

 

[GoofSHO]

I've got one. Gen1 No hood pins.

B

 

[BlackonBlack89]

Where can you get a CF hood from for a GEN I?

 

[GoofSHO]

CF1 here in Cali. did them for us. They seem to have dissappeared recently though.

B

 

[SeanMc]

I'm pinned. I also added carbon fiber overlays to the chrome plate of the pins matched to the weave. It's totally bad ass.

You'll see pics of it if I get around to post pics of this weekend's Fabulous Fords Weekend.

Anyhow, I would pin it. Just cause I'm a worry freak. On the Gen3s, it's fairly easy to pin em. On the gen2s, Im not too sure.

Good Luck!





Sal

Everything about your car is badass Sal. Seriously, it's an awesome car and I'm glad it'll be at FFF tomorrow (today..it's 12:37am in Cali)

 

[Justin101]

not to jack the thread but any word when SHOBros Garagae will be up and takin orders?

 

[SuperchargedSHOguy]

Do you have any close ups of of how your pins are?

Heres my hood pin location on CF hood:

 

[SinisterSHO]

I was going to go with those pins, and dont really remember why I didn't. Mine are mounted farther out.

We couldnt find a good place to drill, so we took out the bump stops and put the pins there.
I still haven't screwed down my scuff plates

 

[Justin101]

here are mine, sparco hood pins with CF underlay, looks decent...

 

[SHO2NV]

That's the one reason I'd choose a Cincy hood over the CF hoods, not a fan of the hood pins at all.