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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 12:54 PM
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Hey guys I have another question... for you guys with the CF hoods, my g/f told me that there's a special wax I can get for my hood to keep it from fading out and looking like ****, have any of you heard of this? I haven't...
i have heard of it from my friend with a srt-4 neon with a carbon fiber hood...without hood pins and wont listen about getting them :facepalm:

Originally Posted by slowswap
It's not actually stress on the carbon fiber. 99% of carbon fiber hoods have fiberglass bottoms. Fiberglass is not as strong as carbon fiber.
ohh ok.... now i know but it is from the force of the wind underneath the hood right?

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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by sport08
i have heard of it from my friend with a srt-4 neon with a carbon fiber hood...without hood pins and wont listen about getting them :facepalm:
lol, I admit I like the look of hood pins honsetly, it's just the fact that they want $150 to drill 2 damn holes in my hood, it's ridiculous
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by black-balt
lol, I admit I like the look of hood pins honsetly, it's just the fact that they want $150 to drill 2 damn holes in my hood, it's ridiculous
my friend is just to cheap to get them.....i dont get it he pays for the hood but wont pay to protect it
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by sport08
my friend is just to cheap to get them.....i dont get it he pays for the hood but wont pay to protect it
Yeah I figured I paid like $600 for this hood all together, so some $20 hood pins are well worth the money
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 12:59 PM
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http://www.statracing.com/buy/nrg-ca...-hood-pins.asp

Get those.
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by slowswap
I saw those those are bad ass, but I just have basic stailness steel ones, I'm not going to try to get super fancy with it they all do basically the same thing... I paid like $10 for my set they're just some spectre hood pins but they'll serve thier purpose.
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 01:08 PM
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Just a tip. My buddies put foam between the metal ring that goes on the hood to prevent rust from messing with the hood, or from the metal creating imperfections.
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 01:10 PM
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Well mine are stainless so they shouldn't rust... and it really wouldn't matter if the hood got scratched or something under the disks, because there's going to be 2 holes in my hood anyway, so there's really no point... that's how i see it atleast lol
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 01:14 PM
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aerocatch hood pins are full blown win





Unless you have show car only, and never track your car, then it's illllll advised to tun a fiberglass or cf hood without pins
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 01:35 PM
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i love the look of the aerolatch hood pins
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by black-balt
Ok all of you smartasses can **** off, a CF hood requires hood pins... I'm not going to risk ******* my brand new hood up, due to the latch cracking.

I see I'm not going to get any help here...
Obviously using hood pins is a matter of opinion. I had a carbon fiber hood on my old car for 2 years and didn't have any problems and I didn't use hood pins.
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by SS33
aerocatch hood pins are full blown win





Unless you have show car only, and never track your car, then it's illllll advised to tun a fiberglass or cf hood without pins
Agreed. Aerocatch hood pins are the ONE hood pin I actually like.
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Old Jun 15, 2009 | 03:09 PM
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i have had my carbon fiber hood on for 3 months now without hood pins and i have the b magic hood with the 4 vents but man those aerocatch pins look sweet. How much did they cut into your hood to put that.
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Old Jun 15, 2009 | 11:53 PM
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definatly love the look of those hood pin's also whats rong with having hood pins? everyone who posted negativily is stupid and needs to get a life if u dont have anything good to say shut the f#%k up and GTFO theres no need for dumb commnets stupid asses. Any how yeah aerotech has some nice hood pins. i would go to a body shop and see what they say.
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Old Jun 16, 2009 | 12:17 AM
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Talk about thread revival.
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