rims?? drop??? low profile tires...???

URETHANE BLITZ KIT... fit almost perfectly!
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oh ya, the decal has to stay, local shop sponsored team.. back window has local shop decal..

rims, drop, hood pins and you will be set. nice car btw.

gun metal rims w/ carbon hood and drop!

get a raffle ticket for that predator carbon hood, that would look nice with some gun metal rims and a drop man!

that is a carbon fiber hood... its not painted black..

i dont really like hoodpins.. but thanks for the compl.

first thing you need to do is give me the car. then i'll give you a six pack and a plane ticket back home. :thumbsup

Originally posted by Blitzsuperstar
that is a carbon fiber hood... its not painted black.. i dont really like hoodpins.. but thanks for the compl.

you may not like em but do you really wanna pay for a new hood and windshield when your latch breaks?

Rims and a drop. With that kit ... big rims and a small drop.

Originally posted by woo2gnt97
Rims and a drop. With that kit ... big rims and a small drop.

Originally posted by injendsm

Originally posted by Blitzsuperstar that is a carbon fiber hood... its not painted black.. i dont really like hoodpins.. but thanks for the compl.

you may not like em but do you really wanna pay for a new hood and windshield when your latch breaks?

Why is that..what makes not having hood pins so bad..like I know the hood can fly up but why?

Originally posted by Steve

Originally posted by injendsm

Originally posted by Blitzsuperstar that is a carbon fiber hood... its not painted black.. i dont really like hoodpins.. but thanks for the compl.

you may not like em but do you really wanna pay for a new hood and windshield when your latch breaks?

Why is that..what makes not having hood pins so bad..like I know the hood can fly up but why?

i believe its because sooner or later the latch will give way but dont take my word on it. i have seen the aftermath enough times to make me want get hood pins.

lose the body kit imo. then go with rims and a drop. i also firmly believe in hoodpins...a definite must! other than that..nice ride :thumbsup

Originally posted by Blitzsuperstar
..i dont really like hoodpins...

youll like them when they save your hood from flying up and hiting your windshield and roof at 70mph...causing massive damage and a potential wreck. i believe that hood pins should automatically come with the CF hoods. they arent really an option...they are pretty required for your saftey.

bucknutty will talk some sense into you...he's lost a hood, windshield and roof due to no hood pins

Hood pins are a decoration they are keeping your hood down.


CF hoods fly up because they are really light and they tend to vibrate more than stockers. That overtime loosens the latch adhession. Next thing you know the latch breaks loose and your hood smashes into your windshield and you're on here writing "God damnit I wish I'd gotten hood pins. You guys were right...bla bl bla"


In other words, get hood pins.


And put on wheels and drop it slightly. And "low profile" tires are for choads. Get a thick enough tire that you don't look like an idiot with a rubber band around your wheels and it saves your wheels from getting road rash the first day you drive them over a bump or pothole.

Yes def hood pins. I have also witnessed the aftermath and the cost isn't something you want to deal with for the repair.

Second on the list I would drop it and then get rims after you dropped it. I would say prokits (recommend getting Tokico Illumina's if you drop it) with a 18" rim and 40 series tire package. I agree that gunmetal with a polished lip would look sweet on your car.

Car is looking good bro.

Hood pins as previously stated would deffintaly be a good idea. Second you should deffintaly lower it and some nice wheels. Third, lose the body kit. Everyone and their brother has a blitz body kit. Its way overdone IMO. Just my 2 cents

one thing i would remove is that fire extinguisher. no need for it imo.

Originally posted by injendsm
one thing i would remove is that fire extinguisher. no need for it imo.

Originally posted by a_miller_76

Originally posted by injendsm one thing i would remove is that fire extinguisher. no need for it imo.

yes even as ricey as I got I didn't get the apc extingusher. your ride Looks real good though. don't mind me its a beer day :+

Originally posted by madhatter210

Originally posted by a_miller_76

Originally posted by injendsm one thing i would remove is that fire extinguisher. no need for it imo.

yes even as ricey as I got I didn't get the apc extingusher. your ride Looks real good though. don't mind me its a beer day :+

What!?! You guys are retarded. After my fuel rail breaking off incident, I wont go anywhere without a fire extuingisher. I have one in the cabin and one in the trunk too. When i drive by you and your car is on fire you will be glad I have them!

Originally posted by djtrickee

Originally posted by madhatter210

Originally posted by a_miller_76

Originally posted by injendsm one thing i would remove is that fire extinguisher. no need for it imo.

yes even as ricey as I got I didn't get the apc extingusher. your ride Looks real good though. don't mind me its a beer day :+

What!?! You guys are retarded. After my fuel rail breaking off incident, I wont go anywhere without a fire extuingisher. I have one in the cabin and one in the trunk too. When i drive by you and your car is on fire you will be glad I have them!

lol yea but how many people on this board have had their car just catch on fire? i doubt it happens that often. if you do feel the need to get an extinguisher tho, at least put it under the seat or someplace less obvious.

Yeah fire ext. needs to go. just rims with a deep lip. send me an im and ill get you some info on some nice ones for cheap, look amazing. Those with a set of aem rotors. i have an eibach suspension lowered the slightest bit, front upper rear lower braces, the car feels like its on rails. good work so far, keep it clean. You will be amazed at the difference rims make.

its at quick access, i've had to help one of my friends out before... racing a beater car.. battery caught fire... saved him from alot worse damage..

maybe i'll mount it somewhere else.. i have to deal alot with people going is that NOS?!?!?! i just smile and walk off..

i'm debating 18" or 19"... i think 19"s with 1 1/2"-2" drop.. there are some pretty crappy roads around here.

i check my hood all the time, i just can't stand of putting hoodpins on the car.. it runs the overall look IMO. it latches GREAT! i've been as fast as 140mph with that hood (i know call me stupid... i was i'll admit it, kinda got in a rush, wasnt thinking, but it worked)

Originally posted by Blitzsuperstar
its at quick access, i've had to help one of my friends out before... racing a beater car.. battery caught fire... saved him from alot worse damage.. maybe i'll mount it somewhere else.. i have to deal alot with people going is that NOS?!?!?! i just smile and walk off.. i'm debating 18" or 19"... i think 19"s with 1 1/2"-2" drop.. there are some pretty crappy roads around here. i check my hood all the time, i just can't stand of putting hoodpins on the car.. it runs the overall look IMO. it latches GREAT! i've been as fast as 140mph with that hood (i know call me stupid... i was i'll admit it, kinda got in a rush, wasnt thinking, but it worked)

Great....well when it fuckin snaps even though you thought it was perfectly fine don't whine on this board. Just promise us that. Every person who has said "I hate hood pins" has started a thread "Damn my CF hood flew up and smashed my windshield"....every fuckin one of them.

Originally posted by a_miller_76

Originally posted by Blitzsuperstar its at quick access, i've had to help one of my friends out before... racing a beater car.. battery caught fire... saved him from alot worse damage.. maybe i'll mount it somewhere else.. i have to deal alot with people going is that NOS?!?!?! i just smile and walk off.. i'm debating 18" or 19"... i think 19"s with 1 1/2"-2" drop.. there are some pretty crappy roads around here. i check my hood all the time, i just can't stand of putting hoodpins on the car.. it runs the overall look IMO. it latches GREAT! i've been as fast as 140mph with that hood (i know call me stupid... i was i'll admit it, kinda got in a rush, wasnt thinking, but it worked)

Great....well when it fuckin snaps even though you thought it was perfectly fine don't whine on this board. Just promise us that. Every person who has said "I hate hood pins" has started a thread "Damn my CF hood flew up and smashed my windshield"....every fuckin one of them.

he speaks the truth.

Trust me man its not fun.. I was heading down from Pomona to Camp Pendleton CA. I was Hwy 5 3rd lane happy as shit when BLAM! Hood to the winshield. not fun at all. could of been really bad but I guess I got lucky. GET THEM!!

Will repeat prev statements, but hey... U're nuts!

Oh yeah, btw, C what U can do about fixing your front bumper. An unC'mingly huge gap underneath your headlights, ugh! Sorry, just really stuck out 2 me.

- J

hood pins or DIE

i'll be the first... you think i'm just stupid or something?? over half of the CF hoods out there, THAT ARE BUILT CORRECTLY (latches) will not fly up. the reason for everyone's flying up is not just because they are light. most aftermarket hoods are not the companies worries if they dont fit right. and alot i have installed are just like every other. if the HOOD LATCHES RIGHT, LOCKS DOWN... it will not come up. period. i've had friends with carbon hoods for years now.... and nothing. and if it does happen to me, i wont whine.. when have i? hood pins ruin the look of a CF hood IMO.

speaking on the gap. i've tried everything... when i put the bumper back on after working on the car.... it fits a little better. i think the screw closest to the headlight was a little loose. anyways.. its urethane... what can you do.

Originally posted by Blitzsuperstar
i'll be the first... you think i'm just stupid or something?? over half of the CF hoods out there, THAT ARE BUILT CORRECTLY (latches) will not fly up. the reason for everyone's flying up is not just because they are light. most aftermarket hoods are not the companies worries if they dont fit right. and alot i have installed are just like every other. if the HOOD LATCHES RIGHT, LOCKS DOWN... it will not come up. period. i've had friends with carbon hoods for years now.... and nothing. and if it does happen to me, i wont whine.. when have i? hood pins ruin the look of a CF hood IMO. speaking on the gap. i've tried everything... when i put the bumper back on after working on the car.... it fits a little better. i think the screw closest to the headlight was a little loose. anyways.. its urethane... what can you do.

Well since most of them were VIS hoods then I'd like to know where you're gonna magically get one better.


It's hilarious when you know it alls tell all the other members of the board they're stupid and you're gonna do what you want. Then the shit they tried to warn you of happens. I bet you never even tell us cus you'll be too damned embarrassed to say anything.

not flaming u dude, but fellas that doesnt even look like a cf hood, just looked like it was painted black, which is maybe why hge dont need em.

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Originally posted by Thunderous_Talon
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Quit being ignorant. Get fucking hood pins.

good lord i'm done... you guys of course know how good my hood goes on... :). anyways, if you want close up pics of it being carbon fiber, i will get them to you.

I'm sorry but if you don't get hoodpins, I'm going to laugh my ass off when it comes flying up on you. It's not a matter of if it's going to happen, it's when it's going to happen.

Catching chickens with that fence you have up front? Sunny side up and for Christ's sake don't burn the fucking toast.

Originally posted by Ark
Catching chickens with that fence you have up front? Sunny side up and for Christ's sake don't burn the fucking toast.

WTF? LOL

Get hood pins, genius. You'll thank yourself. Anyhow, also, lose the blitz kit. I see more Eclipses with them these days than without. Way overplayed imo.

Ark, what the hell is your problem?? did you get pushed around in high school and feel like picking on people on the forum... you have many posts where your a fucking asshole. so do us a favor and SHUT THE FUCK UP.


by the way... if the hood doesnt fly up... who do i get to laugh and point fingers at??? (That is if i dont come back on the forum whining about it hitting my windshield)

Originally posted by Blitzsuperstar
Ark, what the hell is your problem?? did you get pushed around in high school and feel like picking on people on the forum... you have many posts where your a fucking asshole. so do us a favor and SHUT THE FUCK UP.

No.

Originally posted by Blitzsuperstar
if i dont come back on the forum

Pretty please.


I'll give Spilner a ring and tell him you're game to race for slips. Look, like your car based on your taste and how much work you put into it. Stop giving a fuck what a bunch of e-buddies think. Don't ask for an opinion and expect to be accepted. You know they shoot people for that in different countries.

Dude... that's amazing. Your front bumper is made entirely out of molded long grain rice! There's even a strainer so you can harvest up more rice by driving through the paddy! That's really neat!

Seriously, though, if that is a CF hood, and I can't tell for sure from the pictures, get hood pins. It would suck to need to replace a windsheild, a hood, and have bodywork done on the roof because you didn't take the half hour to install a 15 dollar part. And that's assuming that you don't wipe the car into any other solid objects right after the hood decided to stand up and salute.

Other then the Blitz, the car looks nice. I like stock bodied cars better, myself, with all of the art under the hood, but if you want to make your "ride" more "tight," go with some huge wheels. The Matchbox look is in. If you do get huge wheels, though, do yourself a favour and upgrade the brakes. Nothing worse then having gigantic "rimz" that show off your micro-brakes.

i'm just going to go ahead and mark this thread dead.

thanks to the couple of nice ppl 4 the comments. and what not.

HOOD PINS! I swear to fucking god if you don't get them and your hood flies up and you hit me....If I'm not dead I'm going to beat you...and if your dead all ready I'm going to violate your your ass with your tire iron.

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BTW you car looks nice.

not to say hood pins aren't a good idea but.... I've had a carbon fiber hood for almost 2 years using just the latch with no problem. I've even let just the saftey holding it and its been fine. I also drove 140 mph with it on there... no probs.

i was just wondering, aren't you the one that is/was selling the turbo kit? i thought you need money bad, so that's why you're selling the kit.

so, in other words, you want to go from a turbo kit, to rims or a drop??? you should of sold the blitz kit instead of the turbo kit!

for reals, man.

but, it's your car i guess.

well. someone's got my back... :). shitt start bitching him out.. this was for in the works... my other car was knocking, and its curretnly in the shop. as for my eclipse... its running tsudo headers... and cai and what not.. i'm broke.. for now. FUTURE PLANS!!! ne ways

anyone else have problems with their batteries leaking?? i finally bought an optima red top... NO PROBLEMS!

lose the body kit, big rims, drop it, get hood pins moron. better safe than sorry. $50 hoodpins or whatever versus a whole new windshield and hood.. and possibly even your life or someone elses life.

Originally posted by Blitzsuperstar
well. someone's got my back... :). shitt start bitching him out.. this was for in the works...

i don't get it :shrug

What's next... lose the Blitz the blitz and chicken wire.

As far as the hood pins, get it, don't get it. Who the hell cares, your car man. No one here is gonna lose any sleep over it.

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the reason you need hoodpins is because the skelaton of the hood (which the latch is attached to) is GLUED (yes, with glue) to the top carbon fiber section. this glue overtime can seperate, thus top part of hood destroys your car while the skelaton stays latched on. stupidass, save your 500$ investment and get hoodpins.

you could just get hood pins, then have the plates powdercoated black... that's just my $0.02... :shrug this is the classic case of "4 million people can't be wrong", man, but whatever...

that is a good idea... if i get them... they wouldnt look to bad black... i cant stand CHROME!!!

Originally posted by willmayo
the reason you need hoodpins is because the skelaton of the hood (which the latch is attached to) is GLUED (yes, with glue) to the top carbon fiber section. this glue overtime can seperate, thus top part of hood destroys your car while the skelaton stays latched on. stupidass, save your 500$ investment and get hoodpins.

the smartness imo :) This is what i was gonna say basically, the latch can fit tight and the glue can give out or something. So i will be the 800th person to say get hood pins. If you don't care if you car gets wrecked than fine, but when the hood flies off and hits someone else's car or something than you will regret it imo. i will also agree go for some new rims/tires. :)

jesus christ, dood, i was at autozone yesterday and they have hood pins with carbon fiber plates on them now...

OH MY GOD!!!111oneoneone!!1

I Don't have hoodpins! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Tempting fate? Like living life on the edge? Rock the no hood pin club.

Probably stupid... but oh well. Life goes on.



Blitz kit is neat. Drop it and rims definately a must. Good luck and all that