Guys, I'm having a realy hard time getting my self to drop a meesly couple bucks on hood pins. It's not cause I'm cheep, I just can't seem to find a pair I wanna poke threw my new baby hood.

Can you guys post pics of your hood, with pins installed...Mabey it will help me.

Any suggestions guys would be great....}(

And No, I havn't driven my car since hood has been installed...:rolleyes

What you guys think about these....With all the damn hood stealing going around...This might be a good find.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33720&item=2426367776

i don't know about you, but those keys look like the ones you can find anywhere, i know i had some old computers that use to use those keys to unlock it, im not sure though, i think...

just cause the keys look alike dont mean they are the same. Those keys are just like the ones for the house except they are round, they have diffrent grooves and shit that makes each key unique. So ronnie i would go ahead and grab that one if i was you and if you go that route and you wanna get rid of your gap you might want to remove your latching system, i know a few people on the board have done that

Is there anywhere that sells thoes pins? Were gettin a VIS extreme gt hood, but don't want pins. Are they really nessesary with a vented hood?

if its not stock and made of metal. I.e. glass or fiber, GET THE PINS. period. I dont care how good the hood is made. Ask those around here , 10-30 bucks is not a lot to save your hood , windshield and maybe your life.

oh yeah,back to the post, i thought about those myself. That type of lock is also impossible to pick. just a FYI.

So what you guys are saying, is that I should get the locking ones..?

Anyone have them, how do they look?

Sorry to hi-jack the thread, but what exaclty do you use to drill through a carbon fiber hood?

I would also get the locking hood-pins but I've never seen em befor

I'm gonna use a BRAND new drill bit....nice and sharp one.

Oh yeh and VIS pre drills holes on the underside of the hood for pins.

Just use a very sharp drill bit on slow and you should be fine.:thumbsup

Ronnie, did you decide to pick up those hood pins. Let us know how they work out for you if you do. I'm looking to get a CF hood down the road and wouldn't mind the info.

>I'm gonna use a BRAND new drill bit....nice and sharp one.
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what BRAND ? :P

my buddy put those pins on his car and it looked like it had nipples but its was still clean looking

Well I bought regular hood pins. I"M NOT PUTTING THEM ON!!!

I think I'm gonna go with the locking ones, I rested the pins on my hood and it just looked like shit.

And no my dash is not painted. I have the stock black dash installed.

I wasent asking you specifacly(sp) if your dash was painted its my sig hehe i got you ;)

u want to sell the ones u bought... have pics of them? I need to get some fairly soon. what do u guys think of the colored anodized ones.. blue, red, etc? i was thinking of maybe goin w/ blue to match my color scheme (blue unerbody neon, m3 mirrors, interior neon, hvac, etc). but maybe aluminum would look better w/ the chrome projectors and hypersilver wheels.