If you have an aftermarket hood, get hoodpins!
 

Wow that sucks. I know a guy that has a fox body. He had something done to it at a wal mart service center amd they didn't completely latch his hood. He got onto the highway and wrapped it over the top of the car. Screwed up hood, cowl, windshield and roof. There's a reason some mechanics work at wally.:loser:

note to myself, get hood pins on the quickness

here's a video of a friends car down at the tms show a couple months ago. i didnt take the video but i was there when it happened.

http://videos.streetfire.net/player....D-9F09396D8627

It happened to BikerJoe on this forum when he got his new hood, What he told me was that he installed it for a test fit, drove around his block at about 2 mph and it flew open and broke his windshield.

I thought it was common sense to replace with hoodpins after an aftermarket hood? lol

same thing happened to my freind with his fox after i told him to run pin's he didnt listen and had to but a new hood,cowl,and windsheild.

Is this only if you have an aftermarkey hood ... what about stock hood, still recommended??

Why is it just aftermarkets that have majority of the problem? I am thinking of getting them for my new hood now so I don't lose it. A friend of mine had a Ranger with a built 5.0 and a 6" cowl. 45 mph going down the road and it flew up smashing through the windshield. He had a slicked and painted dashboard and it smashed through that also. Didn't lose the hood though. Fiberglass held up and stayed on the truck. Bad part was, a guy was driving down to buy it that weekend so he had to repaint the hood, roof, get a new dash and re-slick it and repaint it before he came.

The aftermarket hood's don't have all the steel holding them on the car.They don't latch that great with the stock hood latch.I took mine off completly!!

Gotcha. How hard was it to put the hood pins on your car Lance?

Definately dont want to run with no hood pins.

I had a custom shop do it for me.They had too fab some brackets to make them fit right.My hood is very thick and the normal place for them would'nt work.I will get some pic's tommorow.

You do not need it for stock hood.

Here is the way they made my custom hood pin setup.......

http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/9227/s5ao.jpg

lol Note to self, Clean engine!

I think my hood will be fine.

I have heard of way to many cases of this happening, and know a few ppl locally who it happend to, I got my pins sitting in my room but I really dont wanna put them on :( but im sure they will look okay? there the flush locking style.

IMO hood pins look awesome

I love my hoodpins. I think they look really sharp on cars if you get the right ones. Cheap hood pins look like ass..you get what you pay for. I got mine from the Steeda website for $20. They are some of the best ones I have seen.

http://x11.putfile.com/3/7615400712.jpg

Good thing i don't have an aftermarket hood..;)