Good hood pins, and question about installing them...

[The Green GT]

I am looking for some good hoodpins to go along with my hood ill be ordering soon. My only requirements are that they be locking ones. I dont like the fact that people could just walk up and take them, or even open my hood if I can get the latch working right. And if you can find them with the plate black, that would be great too.

Now as far as my question about installing them... So you just drill a hole in the hood, and Im guessing they go into the bar by the radiator?

 

[87_GT]

i have always heard good things about the mrgasket hood pins. http://www.mr-gasket.com/ProductDet...majID=100&minID=1001&selection=&minselection=

as far as installing them, the way you described it is how i did it on my fox. And what hood did you decide on?

 

[gcomfx.com]

I've never installed them, but I would assume you install the pins... then use those to mark the place to drill in the hood. Can you drill from the bottom side?

 

[The Green GT]

Yea I would put the pins in first and put some paint or something on them, close and drill from the bottom.

And ill have to check out trhe Mr. Gasket ones. I think I remember hearing that they sucked, but I might be thinking of something else.


And Im getting this hood.

 

[sage2k]

I wish i had the locking ones, matter of fact i should probably invest in some asap

 

[Stanger007]

I wish I had that hood. You better get locking hood pins cuz I'll steal it next time I see you.

Wes

 

[The Green GT]

I wish I had that hood. You better get locking hood pins cuz I'll steal it next time I see you.

Wes

Read this and think again. lol

http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=692137

 

[Stanger007]

Read this and think again. lol

http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=692137

You'd have to catch me in that slow green car first.

Plus I'm too skinny to hit.

Wes

 

[Stanger007]

Hey send me an IM fool - all my AIM contacts got waxed.

Wes

 

[The Green GT]

You'd have to catch me in that slow green car first.

Plus I'm too skinny to hit.

Wes

With 15 shots one is bound to do do something.

And all I got to do is hit a tire, then its a filed day.

And im a VERY good shot.

 

[Blackened302]

i have the mr. gasket locking pins that i got at a local speed shop for $25.

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[chaos254]

i have the frpp hood pins and have never had a problem with people messing with my hood. But then again I don't park my car in bad areas. If anything, you can get some small locks to put on if ur going to be parked for awhile. I've heard the locking ones are flimsy....

 

[The Green GT]

Yea, the locking ones look a litlte flimsy, and they look like it would be hard to get everything lined up right.

 

[iwashmycar]

http://www.deftracing.com/aerocatch_hood_pins/index.htm

 

[Nik_95Cobra]

http://www.deftracing.com/aerocatch_hood_pins/index.htm

Those are sweet for hood pins.

 

[gcomfx.com]

Those are sweet looking.... just not sure how well they would work with some of our hoods... our hoods aren't "flat".

 

[yellowclone]

I am looking for some good hoodpins to go along with my hood ill be ordering soon. My only requirements are that they be locking ones. I dont like the fact that people could just walk up and take them, or even open my hood if I can get the latch working right. And if you can find them with the plate black, that would be great too.

Now as far as my question about installing them... So you just drill a hole in the hood, and Im guessing they go into the bar by the radiator?

I have the locking ones on my car but I will soon be changing to normal hood pins because the locking ones are made really cheap. The part that locks is really thin aluminum that you can bend with your hands so I don't think that at 100 mph that it will keep the hood down if my latch failed. I also don't like the fact that if I ever had a fire that I couldn't get the hood up in time because I would be messing with the keys to unlock it.

If you do get them, the install was really easy. I just took the hood adjuster off the core support and mounted the pins where the adjusters were. I didn't have to make any new holes in the core support. When you have them mounted, just press your hood down to see where they hit and drill your holes there. If you put them where the hood adjusters are then they come out perfect.

 

[gcomfx.com]

Do you not need the hood adjusters to help align the hood?

 

[yellowclone]

My hood kinda springs up when all the way down, so when its locked the springing of my hood holds it firm again the pin and I adjusted the locking part to pull the hood flush with the fenders.

 

[gcomfx.com]

Cool... I guess if it got REALLY bad, you could move the adjusters over. That option is much better than having two sets of holes in a hood.