carbon fiber question

[JDMchristian991]

excuse my ignorance........but i've always wondered how hood pins work..can someone pleaseeeeee explain it?sorry for the noobness

[accord2nr81]

a bolt is threaded into the radiator cradle. then the bolt gose threw the hood and is holds the hood down with a pin that gose threw the bolt on the top side of the hood

[JDMchristian991]

a bolt is threaded into the radiator cradle. then the bolt gose threw the hood and is holds the hood down with a pin that gose threw the bolt on the top side of the hood

ohhhhhh.thanks

[Law Grandeur]

Carbon fiber is flexible, unless it is reinforced by honeycomb, which your hood is not. It is OK for it to flex.

Also, if it WERE to fly up, it would shatter.

I had a Syndicate Kustomz cf vented hood on my sentra and it didnt shatter when i hit a pole. and it was hella flexible. unless you meant shatter the window...cuz that WILL happen lol

[owequitit]

I had a Syndicate Kustomz cf vented hood on my sentra and it didnt shatter when i hit a pole. and it was hella flexible. unless you meant shatter the window...cuz that WILL happen lol

Good quality CF shatters on a large impact. It isn't guaranteed to depending on the strength of the impact, but it does not bend like metal. It flexes to a point, and then disintegrates, like most "composite" materials. Metals distort, eventually to the point where they won't go back, but they are very malleable, so they will stay in one distorted piece under conditions which CF would not. That is why even on most composite planes the wings are still metal. Because it allows more progressive failure characteristics.

Also, I was referring primarily to high speed hood lifts, where they will usually occur on a properly latched hood.

[Kurobei]

Ok good i was worried about it. Also is anybody using hood pins?
And no i dont think that it was me that you bumped into, but are you talking about the place right off of the Davis St. exit from I 80?

Yeah! Ok well I thought u were that guy coz I told him about this website. He says he views this site but he never became a member. He had a Euro-R swap that he sold and bought a perfect body Green CB7 that he's starting to mod. He met JDM_Inspired in Vallejo one time too when he was trying to buy parts.

These are my hoodpins I've installed earlier this year.

[dragonman3102]

Yeah! Ok well I thought u were that guy coz I told him about this website. He says he views this site but he never became a member. He had a Euro-R swap that he sold and bought a perfect body Green CB7 that he's starting to mod. He met JDM_Inspired in Vallejo one time too when he was trying to buy parts.

These are my hoodpins I've installed earlier this year.

Those are the aero latches right? How hard was it to install? I wanna get some but i may have a body shop put 'em on for me. And BTW i live like two min from that gas station

[keycb7]

Looks better than pins that stick out with rings
If I don't like how mine will stay there this aero laches/pins way to go.

[Warudakumi]

I installed those myself. I was going to have a bodyshop put them in but it's fun to work on the car yourself. It took me forever to put them in because I was anal about measurements and wanted it to be perfect. I then got the balls to install some on my friends Scion and that took about 3hrs.

The hardest part was finding a place to put them and then I got the idea of drilling thru the OEM hood rubber height adjusters and got a nice fit. It's just like installing regular hood pins but then u have to make up for the larger area the whole flip section takes place of. The original location where Scion owners install the hood pins are usually closer to the middle and but didn't work for my friends car because of the pin design. If we installed it there, the plastic hood pin section wouldn't sit flush because the hood isn't exactly flat and it curves near the front edge of the car. This is why I modified his hood height adjusters and it came out flawless!

I just recently put some regular hood pins on a co-workers 01 Altima too.

[KeeleDesign]

those are some badass hood pins, i am gona have to get some due to my wire tuck,/ removal of everything i don't need under the hood... including the latch.

i think these will be my best choice.

[JDMC-5's]

what brand of carbon fiber is are u guys suggesting?

[cali-racer]

seibon

[junito]

hoodpins my boy has it on his teggy and whoever did it for him made it look like crap.. but hoodpins when done with precision are hot