I just bought a carbon fiber hood for my 01 eclipse gt, along with a set of sparco hood pins. Me and my buddy got the hood on easily but we have to idea where to put the hood pins or how. help me out.

 

well look along the front end of your car where the bumper sits, and your headlights, look on the frame. find the holes which im guessing there should be some, i kno thier on honda's. well from which ever hole you want the hood pins to sit in chose one even on each side, then your goin to have to drill into your hood, where you decided to place it in, use a filer to grind down the area which u drilled, doesnt matter how it looks cuz your goin to have the metal piece covering it, after that just lock everything in place, u should have directions for the last couple things i have said, hope i was able to help good luck

 

hood pins are not good.

 

you need hood pins with carbon fiber hoods i thought??

 

YES.

 

Installing the hood pins:

First off, take the 6 tiny screws that came with your sparco hood pins and throw them in the garbage. They are not stainless steel. They will rust. Go to home depot and buy the stainless versions.

All 3/S's have hood pin mounting holes predrilled into the chassis. Not sure about your platform, but I imagine you should have them. With the hood open, or off the car, look at the main beam that runs across the car (behind the headlights - along the radiator). There are two holes on that beam directly behind the headlights and slightly towards the center of the car.


Install the hood pin posts there.
Bolt the hood to your hinges
put double-sided stcky tape on the top of your hood pin posts
gently close the hood until the sticky tape catches the hood. This is where you will drill the holes in your hood for the posts.

Do NOT drill through cf unless you have masking tape over both sides of your drilling surface. This prevents cracking of the gel coating. Drill through the hood with a small bit at first, working your way up to the size of the post holes in the hood pin latch side.

Make sure the hood opens and closes easily with the posts coming through your newly drilled holes.

Close the hood
Latch the pins to the posts
Screw in your stainless screws to secure the latch side to the hood.

You can adjust the hieght of the posts by screwing them into or out of the chassis. A perfect hieght allows the hood to be latched and not shift inside the latch holes on the top of the posts. You want a LITTLE bit of pressure from the latch to the post.

It is much easier to describe in person. Hope that helped....



EDIT: No matter how strong your latch is, I highly advise doing this. $25 dollars can save you $400. Trust me... my latch failed to close, it only took one time to rip my old cf hood right off the car.

Better safe than sorry.

 

you don't NEED them, just make sure the latch is strong and snug.

 

I didn't use them on either of my cf hoods, and had no problems.

 

i don't use them..it all depends on the company and the fit...if you have fittment issues then yes i would say use pins. if not then fck it. i have hit high speeds and traveled through rough on coming wind and nothing happend *knock on wood*. so i would say it depends on the hook and company.like a VIS hood= good quality so fitment isn't an issue. but and off brand company i would say would problly have fitment issues. that's just my .02

 

eh, just to be safe i'd put one in or something but that'd look ghetto as ehll