Hood pins are your friend...

foxmustangman · Feb 10, 2008

Holy crapamolie! Look what happened to this guy when he was drag racing! His hood flew up at him @ 95 mph!

Roland69 · Feb 10, 2008

could have done alot more damage I thought that was pretty minnimal

hemi_fan · Feb 10, 2008

lucky i'd say! no roof or hood damage really! Seen that at least a dozen times on here now... i dunno why people still insist that they dont need pins if they dont have a stock-style latch in their hood.

1.8kmint · Feb 10, 2008

That damage is respectable.... What was his time??? XD .... showing the latch would be cool to if you have any pics.

foxmustangman · Feb 10, 2008

twogts4us said:
Damn - the strength of the hood is evident.

black87ttop · Feb 10, 2008

seen this happen so many times now, its unbelieveable. Most of the time the winshield breaks, he got lucky, but he is till fubard, i heard thats a minimum of about a 1000 dollars to fix. From what i was told, that cowl area is spot welded in with like a thousand spot welds. lol making it very time consuming and expensive to fix. sucks for him

4G-KDMP · Feb 10, 2008

foxmustangman said:
Holy crapamolie! Look what happened to this guy when he was drag racing! His hood flew up at him @ 95 mph!

But you forgot to mention one thing;...... he said specifically that he just eased the hood down and never check to see if it was closed.

So isn't that like having hood pins on you hood and thinking that your hood won't fly up.... but then you didn't put the pins in, or am I missing something here?

It's operator error and nothing more!

foxmustangman · Feb 10, 2008

Oh. I Must have read over that part. It still sucks though.

dcurtis · Feb 10, 2008

I can't believe that's all it done, my hood flew up at 35 maybe 40 tops and dented my roof broke my window and cracked the hood, that was on a 95 though, but it still did a lot more damage than he got.

91foxbod50 · Feb 11, 2008

chitty, nice paint job tho

5.0fox · Feb 11, 2008

This is a friend of mines car. The damage is pretty bad. He just cut a whole cowl panel out of a car at a junkyard and will be swapping it in. Believe it or not the hood is not damage a bit!

RS200 · Feb 11, 2008

Mine went into the roof and smashed the windshield. Shame too, since the hood was a week old and freshly painted.

Rick James · Feb 11, 2008

That sucks,hey by any chance do you know what brand hood that is?i have the exact same hood on my notchback(with hood pins) and have been unable to find out who makes it.thanks

dans89lx · Feb 11, 2008

dcurtis said:
I can't believe that's all it done, my hood flew up at 35 maybe 40 tops and dented my roof broke my window and cracked the hood, that was on a 95 though, but it still did a lot more damage than he got.

that happened with my old 94 cobra, it knocked my fenders outta alignment too though. i was still using a stock style latch too. luckily i was only goin about 45 when it happened, i had just gotten off the interstate where i was doin about 75-80

Kabuki_notch · Feb 11, 2008

been there, it's such a scary feeling it's like someone cover's your eyes when your driving. Mine flew up and stayed up for about 5secs or so then smashed down. I was lucky the damage was minimal.

Flavadave4 · Feb 11, 2008

I have seen this a few times where the windshield breaks, dents the roof and pulls the quarters up...If I were him I'd consider myself lucky.

blackened88lx · Feb 11, 2008

I can't even count how many times I have seen this happen with cowl hoods. What's the reason? Is it just not latched properly?? That's the only type of hood I've seen it happen with.

PUNISHER RACING · Feb 11, 2008

been there, not fun!

NKau · Feb 11, 2008

blackened88lx said:
I can't even count how many times I have seen this happen with cowl hoods. What's the reason? Is it just not latched properly?? That's the only type of hood I've seen it happen with.

Even with the factory latch, I think the fiberglass hoods can 'flex' enough to let the latch slip out.

Flavadave4 · Feb 11, 2008

NKau said:
Even with the factory latch, I think the fiberglass hoods can 'flex' enough to let the latch slip out.

Yeah that seems to be the problem, has anyone seen another way to latch them other than using pins? They look ok on some cars but I dont think I would ever want to put hood pins on my car.

Maybe a short cable under the hood you could remove by hand once the hood is popped a few inches?

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