Anybody got any good ideas for some hood pins for this CF hood coming in ??

 

Yeah, don't do it!

 

You're afraid somebody is gonna steal your $200 intake? j/k

 

have you not heard of aerocatch?

http://www.aerocatch.com/aerocatch

 

my buddy had his hood custom done and is putting flush carbon hood pins. The stock hood is laid in real carbon.

 

don't mean to hijack this thread but do you have any more updates of his car Mariano??

and to the OP, I wouldn't put hoodpins on your IS unless it was heavily modded (aggressively) or you tracked it.. or both.

 

I've been told by Seibon that they highly reccomend using hood pins for saftey reasons, as well as a few friends . They say at high speeds of 80 and up that the wind can go underneath the hood which weighs signifintly less than stock (30lbs) and lift it up... Like on the highway! Not that i ride around doing a hundred mpg but when i travel out to New Jersey i lock it at 85mph mostly the whole way out..... Saftey.. If that hood should happen to lift , forget it ... Its over for me!

 

I like those Aerocatch pins, I'm thinking of taking that route!

 

i dont think thats how it works...
-as long as your hood has a latch and is fully closed, it will be locked down no matter how fast youre going.
-you shouldnt be going 80+ anyways
-thats not how wind/pressure/aerodynamics works. to get into your engine bay, air must first travel through your radiator (and condenser, intercooler, oil/trans cooler, whatever other coolers you have) this significantly lowers the speed of the air, so it likely wouldnt have much 'lift' to lift your hood up.

also, the weight of the hood doesnt matter much either. my 300zx comes with an aluminum hood, said to weigh less than 30lbs (21 lbs is what someone supposedly weighed it at) and the Z doesnt need hood pins.

 

You dont need them. But if you want them, go aerocatch. Stock latch will work fine.

Also, the carbon hood doesnt weight that much less. OEM hood is very light.

 

Ran a carbon Seibon hood on my STi for 4-5 years, never needed pins. I've driven the car from NJ to AZ and back. you dont need them OEM latch is fine trust me.

 

I had a CF hood on one of my integras for years without hood pins and I never had an issue so I would say not to do it.

 

I didn't need hood pins for my vented carbon hood. It's a good thing to have safety wise. It's required if you track it tho.

 

I believe all of you on the fact that they're really not needed but i often have my little one in the car with me so I'm not taking any chances, besides, the car us already at the body shop and its not gonna cost me anything extra except for parts so F--k it!

 

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Hold on... How are you getting 100mpg?!? Sorry, I had to!


It does work that way. LOTS of people have forgotton to latch a 50lb OEM hood and had it come open at ~40mph; if there is enough air getting through your radiator and what not to open a 50lb hood at 40mph, imagine the load on the latch/hood for a 25lb hood at 80+mph.

I'll concede that this is mostly a CYA for Seibon, but having a composite hood latched in more than one place is a good idea. If there happens to be a flaw in the area where the latch is attached (which is far more likely on an aftermarket composite hood than an OEM part) it is VERY possible to lose hood on the highway. For this reason many states require hood pins on aftermarket composite hoods in order to pass safety inspections.

Also there are miles and miles of road not far from me with speed limits of 80mph.