I'm installing my Aerocatch hood latches. I had to make little brackets to move the pins forward and that took a bit of time. I took my sweet time drilling the holes underneath the hood for the pins to slide through. Now I'm dreading the part where I have to cut the carbon fiber. Not looking forward to it. I will try to post up pictures at the end of the week of all the work I've been doing to the car.

Any words of advice?

 

Yeah, don't **** up, Haha.

 

measure twice cut once....

 

Masking tape over the whole area to be cut on and use a cutoff wheel. Let the wheel do the work, don't press on it or you'll get strands hanging. A little clear nail polish on the edges will help seal it when you're done.

 

If I spend this much attention to detail with my homework, I'd have a 4.0 gpa. I have drilled one tiny pilot hole in the CF layer to line everything up. I am terrified that I'm gonna **** it up somehow. The hood has such a high angle that it really worries me. I sit there for 30 mins at a time thinking about how it could go wrong and how to prevent it, and then do a step. I could have it done today though if I just have at it and nothing goes wrong. My Chem. professor says every atom in a molecule is a chapter in a thesis, well, every cut on my hood deserves it's own chapter as well.

 

+1

that is exactly how i put mine in.

 

Cut-off wheel is working beautifully on the CF, very smooth. All I can say is, thank God I have a lot of experience with a Dremel and fiberglass (making the fiberglass subwoofer boxes that PCola has now). It looks like it's all coming together now. It's stressful cutting the hood like this. I am taking a break every thirty minutes, sorta like how my Dad used to have to do when he built missles.

Edit: My Michilen Pilot Sport 2 tires arrived while I was outside in the garage earlier, yay.

 

Got the latches in, they look great, hopefully nothing goes wrong. The only thing I'm worried about is that I didn't cut a space from under the hood to secure the bolts with the supplied nylocks, I just screwed them into the CF. I used RTV sealant on the bottom of the lip to help seal the latches, if they even need it. I could always cut from the bottom and screw on the nylocks.

I will try to post pictures soon, I took a lot.

 

I would be soooo nervous cutting into a hood. lol

 

Congrats, well done! Need PICS

 

Ditto that!