Use hood pins!!

Post by **BomexS13** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:04 pm

Picture speaks for itself

Post by **AJ1356** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:13 pm

ouch, i saw that car during jgtc , sweet color.

Post by **Florida240sx** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:03 pm

Guess when he wanted more airflow.He got more than he could handle.

Post by **deCksy** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:08 pm

Florida240sx wrote:Guess when he wanted more airflow.He got more than he could handle.

rofl........

Post by **AkademikONE** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:12 pm

That's a sick color.. anybody know what color that is?

I always used hood pins on my cars with CF hoods, regardless of how gay it looks. =p

Post by **Florida240sx** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:56 pm

What do you do if your in his position?Just neutral and lock the brakes?

Post by **Dookie** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:45 pm

that happened at formula D in houston, was pretty cool how it flopped open mid-drift.i believe that guy has hood pins, but forgot to secure them

Post by **Sky240PWR** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:09 am

BomexS13 wrote:Picture speaks for itself

I was looking at your car in your sig........I don't see any hood pins on your car!(the blue one, not this one).......I'm going for a the clean look and don't really want pins in my cf hood, are there any other options?

Post by **NoStickers** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:34 am

Florida240sx wrote:What do you do if your in his position?Just neutral and lock the brakes?

No you stick your head out the window hahaha

Post by **240 Trainee** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:44 am

Thats lookoutmatt, check out lookoutdrift.com and http://www.ma-motorsports.com. Thats a color off some 70's muscle car, lol. Looks amazingly hot in person. He did have pins, just forgot to put them in, 'doh

Post by **Silvia2b** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:52 am

yeah ACE ventura style! That is if you harness allows that much motion.

Website · Post by **KaTdaToplesS13** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:44 am

that happend to friend of mine while he was on the frwy. His hood came and it also busted his snrf. That sucks

Post by **AZhitman** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:12 pm

Bleh, I hate hoodpins. Fortunately my cf hood seems to latch pretty securely with the stock latch....

That color is sweet as hell. Good-looking S13. Someone get him in here!

Post by **1WheelWonder** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:26 pm

Wow that's gotta suck.

Post by **wickedpelf** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:51 pm

http://www.prostreetonline.com..._pins/ use somethign like those...they would still leave a pretty clean look

Post by **BomexS13** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:01 pm

Sky240PWR wrote:I was looking at your car in your sig........I don't see any hood pins on your car!(the blue one, not this one).......I'm going for a the clean look and don't really want pins in my cf hood, are there any other options?

My hood has a big vent so that unwanted air thats in teh engine bay comes out of the vent instead of pushing the hood up

Post by **spanishricer** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:20 pm

BomexS13 wrote:
My hood has a big vent so that unwanted air thats in teh engine bay comes out of the vent instead of pushing the hood up

What brand hood did you go with anyway? From what I've seen, the weave looks pretty good and it lines up real nice. Plus it's more functional than the VIS variants.

Post by **BomexS13** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:46 pm

The hood is MSports.

Post by **sixxdeuce** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:56 pm

I drove my S13 for maybe 4 days with no pins on my cf hood, scared the crap out of me, the thing flexed quite a bit at high speeds. I dont really mind the look of the hood pins.

Post by **AkademikONE** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:50 pm

I only like hoodpins if they're facing to the side, not downwards, toward the bumper. To me, it looks cleaner that way.

Post by **grimple1** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:55 pm

What rims are those? Kinda hard to tell, but i dig 'em whatever they are.

Post by **BomexS13** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:19 pm

grimple1 wrote:What rims are those? Kinda hard to tell, but i dig 'em whatever they are.

Front looks is FN01R(c), rears GN+

Post by **xckid** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:16 pm

My uncle use to have a car he wood drag he had hood pins halfway down the track the hood just flew up and tore in half.

Post by **w1ngzer0** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:21 pm

why would you not use hood pins on a cf hood essp when you spend all that money into a car like that.

I can understand not liking hood pins eather. All the companies make these generic looking ones.

Post by **Sky240PWR** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:06 pm

BomexS13 wrote:
My hood has a big vent so that unwanted air thats in teh engine bay comes out of the vent instead of pushing the hood up

so you think I'll be fine without using hood pins since my hood has big vents??(car not mine but thats the hood i'm getting)

Post by **PantherRacer** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:50 am

So what color was that again???????? that S13 is SOOOOOOOOO hot

Post by **574-240sx** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:10 pm

The guys at ma-motorsports are good people, I bought some hubs and coilovers from them. Sucks about not fasening the hoodpins though.

Post by **1991S13** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:04 pm

Yeah, that sucks.

My friend has a CF ram air style hood and one day it flew up and cracked the whole scoop part.

I don't like how they look on most cars, dad's Charger has pins, the regular latch, and a chain underneath so no one can break in, lol.

Post by **onosqv** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:24 pm

AZhitman wrote:Bleh, I hate hoodpins. Fortunately my cf hood seems to latch pretty securely with the stock latch....

That color is sweet as hell. Good-looking S13. Someone get him in here!

I have 4 hood pins on my car.. hehehehehe. Didn't really pick the best location for the 1st 2 hood pins.

Yea, I realllly like that shade of green too, reminds me of this clean army greenish integra my friend showed me.

Post by **bcar240** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:10 pm

Ya one of my friends hoods did that too on the freeway. He rear-ended an SUV going maybe 15 mph, and the SUV just drove away afterward. So my friend, with visably buckled hood and deformed front end, just keeps on going without ever even getting out of the car. 5 min later the remnants of the hood latch fail at 70mph. Luckily he made if to the shoulder somehow. So hood pins are good things.

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