Hood Pins for my Protege what yall think?

[B1GHAM]

meh I just have all the OEM hood gaskets in place.. the two front and the rear (rear is attached to the cowl but yeah you get the point).. my fiber images hood doesn't move around or lift up at ALL at any speed I go with the car. With my old crap CF hood (not fiber images of course) if moved around when on the highway and stuff.. scary.

you know, Ive watched my OEM hood move @ highway speeds... it shakes a lil up and down. No noise can be heard, and the first time I saw it I pulled over. The hood didnt move an inch though... I was thinkin maybe that SOME movement was slightly normal? Guess Im gonna start takin a look @ my hood and latch system. Do the gaskets help stop most movement? Im pretty sure those are in place (though I never really looked for them exactly...)

 

[NOTSPCY]

Then don't buy the hood.

I have been following the threads more lately bc of my change in job location so i have more time to be online and i have yet to see a purpose for you . You are the most negitive person on the board . Always something stupid to say to someone in every thread you come in contact with . This board is for people to discuss the mazda related questions, experiances and everything else. But you seem to be to critical on everyone. Everytime i come across a thread you post in it makes me want to just stop coming on this site. Thats how much i feel your input pisses me off. You have all those posts and i bet not one was useful and informative .

Just my opinon!

 

[Dpwhitehead1]

I have been following the threads more lately bc of my change in job location so i have more time to be online and i have yet to see a purpose for you . You are the most negitive person on the board . Always something stupid to say to someone in every thread you come in contact with . This board is for people to discuss the mazda related questions, experiances and everything else. But you seem to be to critical on everyone. Everytime i come across a thread you post in it makes me want to just stop coming on this site. Thats how much i feel your input pisses me off. You have all those posts and i bet not one was useful and informative .

Just my opinon!

he's gonna say something about this too..probably now about me

 

[NOTSPCY]

more then likely .

I mean in ever post when someone ask for there opinion he pretty much calls them a idiot .

I say we petition him lol * BAN HAMMER MUST BE SLAMMED * all those who agree sign below ha ha !

 

[Kansei]

he's gonna say something about this too..probably now about me

yes indeed.. *awaits burnage*

you know, Ive watched my OEM hood move @ highway speeds... it shakes a lil up and down. No noise can be heard, and the first time I saw it I pulled over. The hood didnt move an inch though... I was thinkin maybe that SOME movement was slightly normal? Guess Im gonna start takin a look @ my hood and latch system. Do the gaskets help stop most movement? Im pretty sure those are in place (though I never really looked for them exactly...)

the gaskets prevent some air getting underneath the hood so that any air flowing underneath it (i.e. coming through the front grilles) isn't providing enough lift underneath the hood to make it weightless at speed. The hood latch really seems to assume that the hood will be pushing down on it all the time. Yeah, it has that safety release so that theoretically it shouldn't ever come out, and with the steel + steel construction of the stock hood and the latch hoop on the hood, it shouldn't ever be an issue. On my old carbon fiber hood, it had a steel hoop attached to a plate that was just sandwiched between two thick layers of the fiberglass underframe.. god that hood was awful for a daily driver, glad to see MP3 Racer put hood pins on it for his racecar. My fiber images hood is so freakin diesel, easily as strong as the stock hood. Not as light as the APC hood, but oh well who cares. FI has vids on their site of running over the hoods with a big heavy truck, big guys jumping off a platform onto the hoods, etc.. without ANY cracking of any kind!

 

[FunkyBuddha]

http://www.deftracing.com/aerocatch_hood_pins/index.htm

flush hood pins so it doesn't stick out

 

[Dpwhitehead1]

http://www.deftracing.com/aerocatch_hood_pins/index.htm

flush hood pins so it doesn't stick out

awesome pins. very nice. i might pick myself up a set of these.

 

[Mr. Win]

more then likely .

I mean in ever post when someone ask for there opinion he pretty much calls them a idiot .

I say we petition him lol * BAN HAMMER MUST BE SLAMMED * all those who agree sign below ha ha !

Make your own thread.

 

[Mr. Win]

I have been following the threads more lately bc of my change in job location so i have more time to be online and i have yet to see a purpose for you . You are the most negitive person on the board . Always something stupid to say to someone in every thread you come in contact with . This board is for people to discuss the mazda related questions, experiances and everything else. But you seem to be to critical on everyone. Everytime i come across a thread you post in it makes me want to just stop coming on this site. Thats how much i feel your input pisses me off. You have all those posts and i bet not one was useful and informative .

Just my opinon!

Don't you know how to use a PM button? Antoine would not approve of this.
A purpose? It an Internet forum... no one has a purpose here (excluding vendors/mods). My posts are on topic and honest perhaps you should bump-up the confidence in yourself... I'm sorry I make you cry yourself to sleep at night so much that you no longer would like to visit a website. HAH stop being so dramatic as if it were to be some major problem if YOU choose not to come back to Mazda's 24/7.

Damien, I answered all your questions for MONTHS when you first got your car. You never stopped asking questions and you were never willing to do any actual research and it shows in your thread. I was think you should change the title to: How many times can you redo a Protege until you take the time and do it the right way?

Now to get back on topic... The flush pins look nice but cutting a hole like that into a CF hood could prove challenging.

 

[Tengo]

dont worry guys. one more negative comment from this troll is going to have him banned for life. the mods and antoine have been talking about him. it was nice not knowing you ahole!

 

[Dpwhitehead1]

Don't you know how to use a PM button? Antoine would not approve of this.
A purpose? It an Internet forum... no one has a purpose here (excluding vendors/mods). My posts are on topic and honest perhaps you should bump-up the confidence in yourself... I'm sorry I make you cry yourself to sleep at night so much that you no longer would like to visit a website. HAH stop being so dramatic as if it were to be some major problem if YOU choose not to come back to Mazda's 24/7.

Damien, I answered all your questions for MONTHS when you first got your car. You never stopped asking questions and you were never willing to do any actual research and it shows in your thread. I was think you should change the title to: How many times can you redo a Protege until you take the time and do it the right way?

Now to get back on topic... The flush pins look nice but cutting a hole like that into a CF hood could prove challenging.

DamiAn- for starters. #2, i'm not saying you don't help at all. But your wording is very sarcastic, and rude. Thus, you have an ASSHOLE like aura to yourself. From what people say. And, about my car, dude, i can't help that shops ****** me over and closed down..got a particular one for you- MAM. I've just had worse luck. on top of that, IF you see my thread, the new one, you'll see that after all of this i've found that doing things yourself tends to come out the best. Thanks. i research plenty. And, if you recall, you and i have had bouts before about your "CONSTRUCTIVE" criticism.

and, cutting holes into carbon fiber is easy.Takes a dremel and a drill.

 

[blkspdfreak]

(uhm) (mspblack) ok, back to the hood pins, they look good as long as their done right, those new ones are low profile, but thats a big hole to be cuttin in your hood, and are they plastic??

 

[vindication]

*dares to go back on topic*

in your case unless you are willing to get a new(better build quality) cf hood then I say get the pins, but get flush mounted ones, they even offer some in cf. But hood pins in general, unless you own a track car and want to race laguna seca or something, for cars. A well made cf hood has no use for them. For instance, my gemini rc hood, I've had up to 120mph and it's perfectly fine.

 

[SeminoleMan]

Quality of the hood shouldn't make much difference - that fact is the CF hood is significantly lighter and any air that get's under there is gonna make it act like a sail. Get the pins, no question!

 

[blkspdfreak]

Quality of the hood shouldn't make much difference - that fact is the CF hood is significantly lighter and any air that get's under there is gonna make it act like a sail. Get the pins, no question!

safety first.......(poke)

 

[Mr. Win]

Quality of the hood shouldn't make much difference - that fact is the CF hood is significantly lighter and any air that get's under there is gonna make it act like a sail. Get the pins, no question!

If you have a proper fitting hood and weather stripping this should not be a problem.

 

[SeminoleMan]

Perhaps weatherstripping is a possibility (not sure I've seen anyone do it), but he's asking about pins and to me those are commonly used failsafes. Still prefer the pins for maximum saferty.

 

[Kansei]

If you have a proper fitting hood and weather stripping this should not be a problem.

werd.. I feel better with my CF hood on than with my stocker. My fiber images hood was predrilled for all the weather stripping

 

[MTXPROTEGE509]

(uhm) (mspblack) ok, back to the hood pins, they look good as long as their done right, those new ones are low profile, but thats a big hole to be cuttin in your hood, and are they plastic??

yea i saw those not sure if i want to be cuttin a hole that big in my hood lol, they look like plastic though. where is a coo site to get the pins thanks.

 

[jomoyo069]

theres a kid at my school thats car looks exactly like urs exept its a toyota camry.. hes got the same rims a body kit like urs and a wing almost the same as yours