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Old 06-04-2005, 11:01 AM
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I would get hood pins. The latch fitting isn't the only problem, it's the latch coming off of the hood. The bolts are nice, but it's dumb to not buy hood pins. CF is strong, but the force generated against it is tremendous. There's no safe speed for CF, it depends. Obviously the slower you're going, the less likely it is to happen. It's happened for some at speeds less than 50mph.

Think of hood pins as cheap insurance. Your CF hood runs 300ish dollars. Your windshield runs 300ish dollars. When it flys up, the bump on the hood will strike right where you head is. Reconstructive surgery from glass shards embedded in your face could cost a grand or more. Hood pins are 20 dollars. I don't understand why people don't buy them.
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