CF hood YES, hood Pins NO.. options - Honda Prelude Forum

a1andres · 12-24-2002, 10:10 AM

Okay I am considering purchasing a CF hood for my 1994 honda Prelude. This is meant in no offense to anyone that has hood pins on their CF hood, but I think its butt ugly. What are my options?? I understand the dangers of the hood flying open at high speeds becauase of the light weight. What can I do? I will just NOT get the CF hood at all if I cannot be 100% confident that the hood will not fly up at high speeds without some hood pins. I have heard of people putting in additonal latches etc. I don't mind it being a little bit of a pain in the ass to get the hood open, I just want it secure.

Si4WS · 12-24-2002, 11:48 AM

I have a CF hood w/ no pins. No problems over the last 7 months. I have done 130mph with it. It moves but hasn't flew off. Just my 2 cents.

slo mo · 12-24-2002, 11:57 AM

I have no hood pins with my vis oem cf hood. Never had any problems.

ViZ · 12-24-2002, 04:33 PM

i have known people to lose there cf hood because it wasnt pinned, they even said that they shake a little but overtime the latch area can weaken and thats how they break maybe get the lockable ones with a black ring and even spray the rest black so you can't really notice them =\

brendon2k · 12-24-2002, 06:27 PM

Rig up a hood lock or two to hold down the hood in additional places.

THUNDERCAT98 · 12-24-2002, 10:39 PM

How about someone devise a set up that will look something like an 'Alan Wrench' type setup... That would be some pimp ish!

98 Base

Porschify · 12-25-2002, 06:07 PM

i got hood pins because this eclipse i saw in a movie has them (yea right)

vile10 · 12-25-2002, 07:51 PM

for security i would use hood pins

jpprelude · 12-25-2002, 08:11 PM

I've had my fiber images hood for 14 months w/o problem

invaderlude · 12-28-2002, 12:25 AM

I drove with my fiber images hood with no pins for a month or two. I started going to the track a lot so i got some sparco hoodpins.

Jape · 12-28-2002, 02:51 AM

I have hoodpins.

SLICK96 · 01-05-2003, 06:29 PM

YOu can have that opinion, but we'll see what you say after your hood does fly off and shatter your windshield... many of us here know somebody it's happened to.

J

bkw97lude · 01-07-2003, 06:38 AM

I don't like hood pins a whole lot, but once I got to 90mph+ and saw how the hood had a lot of play in it, I bought a pair. I don't mind them as much now that I have them, but I would rather not.

ShadowSonic · 01-07-2003, 07:21 AM

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Originally posted by Jape
I have hoodpins.

But isnt you car crashed?

Jape · 01-07-2003, 10:23 AM

the bumper, nothin to do with the hood...

SikRedRX-8 · 01-07-2003, 10:54 AM

I have hood pins with my FI hood, I think it looks like ass without them.

fleshbox · 01-07-2003, 11:04 AM

You could build something with pneumatic cylinders that latches the corners down... that wouldn't take too much work, of course you would have to have an air source... a small electric motor that turns a small compressor... tankless the compressor could run straight into the cylinders to lock it in place and then just open a valve to release it.. That would be a pretty trick setup....

Oh yeah have I mentioned that Im a hydraulic mechanic and the company I wqork for has a ton of small pneumatic cylinders and a machine shop that I can use

SLICK96 · 01-07-2003, 07:07 PM

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Originally posted by sik96prelude
I have hood pins with my FI hood, I think it looks like ass without them.

It's wierd... I think hatches look good w/o them, but Ludes look retarded w/o them, IMO.

J