What color hood pins should I get on a OEM style red carbon fiber hood. Painted to match the car, like my sig pic, not Red CF weave.

I am primarily looking at Sparco's hood pin kit unless you have better ideas.

TIA

Poll result (14 votes) Red (2 votes) Vote Silver (9 votes) Vote Other (3 votes) Vote (0 votes) Vote (0 votes) Vote (0 votes) Vote

See sig pic for brain storming

i hate colored anodized crap on the outside of the car. Its ok in the engine bay sometimes. I say go silver or black.

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I agree, silver seems to be winning so far. There are a few other silver accents on the car that might make silver hood pins look alright. I wish I didn't have to have them, but like you all say, it's not worth chancing the thing smacking the windshield.

Do you have a closeup of your hood pins installed? Are they the Sparco ones?

silver, it'll match your big shiny radiator

Evan B
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I say silver, plus I know people that have the red and it fades to pink really quick.

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- 05 Subaru STi
- 97 eclipse gs (289whp w/ 276tq)

Anyone have close-up pics of the sparco pins installed?

I think these are sparco. I had a few different kinds considering i also had 2 different CF hoods



I ran my my VIS CF hood without hood pins for about 8 months with constant driving of 80+ miles an hour every day. So you don't 'have' to have them, its just a good safe guard. I just hated how it looked with them on.

much cleaner


than...

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93 Toyota/shaved/bagged/body dropped - SOLD | 97 GSX - SOLD
2006 Scion tC

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98 Silver Eclipse RS ATX
CAI, header, bored TB, Apex N1, Pro-kit/Tokico combo, custom lower tie bars, cross drilled/slotted rotors

sparco pins, i have one bolt on em that's starting to rust, and it pisses me off...Other then that, no rust at all

These are what I have. The CF ones, deys is nice.

Yeah, If I was keeping the hood w/ the CF pattern, I'd sport those CF pattern ones.

I'm going to say silver. Here are two pics of my silver sparco's.

Jason
'11 Ford Mustang GT/CS
'11 Ford Mustang V6 6-Speed (SOLD)
'04 Nissan 350z Touring (SOLD)
'95 Turbo Eclipse GS (SOLD and will be missed)
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95 Eclipse GS- sold
99 Eclipse GSX- 386awhp
98 Eclipse GS- sold
92 Prelude

thanks guys, the sparco's look good. I can always upgrade later i guess... i suppose the install wont be too bad

no offense but why the hell did you paint over the hood tobegin with? i mean how are people supposed to knows its a carbon fiber hood with it painted the color of the car. total waste of a carbon fiber hood imo. i mean i know most of you guys care more about your "weight reduction" then the looks but damn it would look hot as hell with your red car.

silvreclipsers.... where did you find those?? Who sells them, cause that's what I've been looking for! thanks

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