Is it safe to install hood pins in a fiberglass hood. Someone was telling me what happens is the hood starts to crack around the hood pins. Does anyone have this setup and what were your results and how long.
custom hood and hood pin question
Elanor05
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i have the kaenan eleanor hood and the shelby style hood pins, no cracking at all here
Hoods have come a long way, tell that person to join us in the current world.
There's some crap out there, but the aforementioned kaenan, cervinis, trufiber etc are well made and super quality.
I ran pins on my initial eleanor hood for all of 2007, sold it to heavy, and he ran pins another season with no issues. I've had my current hood on since fall of 07 with the pins in, hoods still cherry.
There's some crap out there, but the aforementioned kaenan, cervinis, trufiber etc are well made and super quality.
I ran pins on my initial eleanor hood for all of 2007, sold it to heavy, and he ran pins another season with no issues. I've had my current hood on since fall of 07 with the pins in, hoods still cherry.
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I run a carbon fiber hood with pins, and no issues at all.
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I've had the WMS hidden hood pins for 2 years on a Trufiber hood and have no issues on the fiberglass underside even with the constant pulling and vibration.
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Is installation difficult.Should i have a professional do it.
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5 years with hood pins on fiberglass hood with no cracks. Installation should be done by a mechanic. It's not difficult for a experienced mechanic, but a weekend wrencher might have some problems. The main thing is take your time, tape the hood's surrounding area and don't drill **** until you have done your homework on location to drill. You'll have a couple of surprises if not careful.
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What surprises? Besides measuring ten times a cutting once, what else makes it a difficult mode for the weekend wrencher.
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This is one of the easiest jobs you can do yourself imo, but if your not sure get a pro to do it. Atleast if the pro screws up, they owe you a hood. If you screw up, your buying a new hood. Good luck with eveything.
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700rwhp **** dude thats sweet. Get some pics up soon. I would love to see this thing. And welcome to MM.
I just put on a fiberglass Kaenen '67 GT500 replica hood last week (after a wreck) and am considering the Drake/Shelby pins to help with the hood shake. I've read just about all of the posts I could find on this forum (and others), and I haven't heard anyone complaining about cracking.
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If you noticed, I said ''if you're not careful''
I've seen idiots do this job wrong over and over. Slip and scratch the hood, put the hole in the hood in the wrong spot, Decide on a location, then can't figure out how to attach the nut on the bottom of the stud because of limited access, decide on a location, make the holes and find out the pins are not long enough to come through the hood. Just because it's easy for you and me means nothing...you know how dumb people can be right?
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If I get a carbon fiber hood, and use lapel pins from my favorite baseball team to hold my hood down, will it crack the hood? and if it does, will PinCrafters replace my hood? or my favorite baseball team? If I use lapel pins instead of hood pins on my hood, do I have to drill the holes in a different place?
Can I use a shelby hood-pin kit as a lapel pin for my favorite suit?
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^ funny. i'm guessing i missed the post from someone trying to sell something before it was deleted
but look at it this way. at least the spam used the search function hahahahahaha
but look at it this way. at least the spam used the search function hahahahahaha
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