Rx-7Blazin

where should the hood pins be put on and where do they look the best??? anyone have this done already

boostmotorsport

Mine are on the rad support where the already existing holes are about 2" in from lights

darkwaveboi

why DO ricers put in hood pins?
so people on the street can jack open their hood and cut the alarm?

Rx-7Blazin

i dont know ricers probly dont have that problem because im willing to bet that they still have there hood release lever anywayd the support bar on my car was bent in an accedent (i didnt do it previous owners) and the hood relase lever will not fit now so i need something to hold mt hood down so i cant drive it without the pins

Tec

Your car has a stickercharger! can you pop the hood?

Rx-7Blazin

no i cant pop the hood cuz there is no latch and no i have not one sticker on my car i really dont want to put these pins on my car but i have to if i want to drive my car damn people need to listen

darkside7

iTrader: (12)

get the sparco ones.

Tec

Why don't you just buy the hood latch? you could find on for a few bucks in a junk yard.. Leave the hood pins for the cumstains (i saw a new GT mustang with a skyline GT-R badge on the side tonight)

Rx-7Blazin

damn it listen THE CROSS MEMBER AND SOME METAL IN THE FRONT ARE BENT IT WONT GO BACK ON IT WONT FIT I HAVE TO REPLACE MOST OF THE FRONT END METAL PEICES people just dont listen

Rx-7Blazin

i have mr gasket hood pins (auto zone like 7 bucks) what is special about sparco pins??

Tec

Hood pins it is! you can velcro that **** down, or just take the ****** thing off. good luck!!

Rx-7Blazin

ok thanks for listning it just sucks cuz i dont want to drill holes in my hood cuz i know that im going to fix the front but the only way to keep the hood down is with pins so i dont know what to do

FC Drifter

i have pins on my T2. i have them for the same reason you do. my hood wouldnt close on the latch. i put them in between the headights on the radiator support. i worried about drilling my hood, but when i saw how my car looked afterwords, i really like it so im keeping it this way. i know of a website that details intalation of the hood pins, il see if i can dig it up

FC Drifter

ok i found the site. go to www.fc3s.org click on How-tos on the left side of the screen. a list will pop down. click on saftey and another list will pop down. click on hood pins. it will show you how to install them and there are pics of the finsihed project. they used 4 pins when i only used 2, so its a little different than my set up. but the front two are pretty much how i have mine. i like the way they look. kinda gives that aggresive race car look. i only wish i could make sure no one could open my hood. i removed the latch and everything when i did mine so anyone could open my hood.

opelbits

iTrader: (5)

OK, here's the deal, I had an Opel GT that I couldn't get the hood latch to work right. I figured I'd put hood pins on. So, looking through JC Whitney's (cheesy stuff, but what else you gonna read on the crapper? I mean, if you suddenly realise you're outta toilet paper, the paper in that catalog is mighty thin and soft, right?) I found 'locking hood pins'. They were $14.00 and, to me at least, looked better. No pin sticking up, just a flat plate with a key lock inset. Easy to install too.

FC Drifter

hmm not a bad idea.. might look into that

importboi22

if i got any hood pins i would get the ones with lil locks on it there kinda cool i think, so even if they tried to jack your car it'd be pretty hard to get inside and kill the alarm before it would attract alot of attention...

Silkworm

You do realize that hood pins by themselves are not street legal?

PaulC

Rx-7Blazin

huh they are not street legal why and where did you here this??? that makes no sence hood pins are safer than having a latch they hold better

fuzzi

He's right, in most places hood pins arent street legal... youd probably never get pulled over for it... but you have to have a two part system to get into your hood... who knows why... Thats why there is the additional latch once you pop the hood from inside... Probably so you dont accidently pop it open while your driving and have it fly up at you...

peejay

If your chassis flexes enough you can unlatch the hood latch.

I was reading something in a mailing list archive... someone in a Mustang found out how important hood pins are when the (functioning 2-part) hood latch unlatched due to chassis flex, going through the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca.

I've had a hood blow open once with a functioning 2-part latch. Never again will I ever own a car with a rear-hinged hood without putting hood pins in as well! Chassis flex can have unexpected consequences...

Rx-7Blazin

yea my freind has an 85 300zx and he had just got it fixed up and he went to get it painted and when they where done they didnt lactch the hood good and he was going down the highway and his hood came open and slamed the top of his car and bent the whole hood and kinda messed up the roof this was about 7 min after getting it out of the shop that sucks. now that im hereing all these stories i think i am feeling a little better about putting hood pins in cuz i would like to auto cross and it would be a bitch if your hood came open cuz there goes a hood and a roof and mabe more just for not spending 7 bucks