Hood Pins for my Protege what yall think?

[MTXPROTEGE509]

Yea i have the Evo VIS carbon fiber hood on my protege, but for some reason if your lookin at the car the right side is sits a lil higher, i think its the molding or somthin i tried adjustin it and everything, but was wondering cuz i saw those carbon fiber hood pins they look nice, i want to get them so that i can keep it all even. any suggestions. thanks

[blkspdfreak]

Yea i have the Evo VIS carbon fiber hood on my protege, but for some reason if your lookin at the car the right side is sits a lil higher, i think its the molding or somthin i tried adjustin it and everything, but was wondering cuz i saw those carbon fiber hood pins they look nice, i want to get them so that i can keep it all even. any suggestions. thanks

it might be a little off, or they could of messed up the hood when they were taking it out of the mold. i got the same hood and it fits fine.

[MTXPROTEGE509]

it might be a little off, or they could of messed up the hood when they were taking it out of the mold. i got the same hood and it fits fine.
Nice bro i like the fenders custome done or what?. so do you think i should get the pins?

[jomoyo069]

dont get the pins.. thats rice at its finest

[MTXPROTEGE509]

dont get the pins.. thats rice at its finest

i put my car in shows though, gotta look all clean and perfect i thats why i think i need to get the pins so that the hood will look even it will keep it down. tried everythin else and it aint workin.

[Kansei]

you've adjusted the rubber stoppers on the top radiator support under the hood?

I'd say the problem is probably VIS.. I've heard bad things about their quality. My fiber images hood amazes me, perfect fitment, amazing weave, crazy strength.. no need for hood pins ever.

[Tiger Brand]

dont get the pins.. thats rice at its finest

what about it makes it rice?

[MTXPROTEGE509]

yea ive adjusted all that and it worked a lil but dont like the way it looks cuz it comes up over the fender a little bit, nice P5 bro. where you have your pins is where i should place mine if i do get them right?

[blkspdfreak]

Nice bro i like the fenders custome done or what?. so do you think i should get the pins?

fenders are somewhat custom. i got them and they werent very strong. the areas where you would bolt them down were weak as hell. the hood pins look nice if they are done right, the p5 looks good with em on. it all depends. if you have tried every thing u can think of, go to a shop, they might know of a trick or 2 for your hood. nice msp though.

[Mr. Win]

Please don't get hood pins. Ditch your wavy piece of shit hood and buy something qaulity. ViS has some of the worst qaulity on the market and it will bubble soon enough.

[kudakev615]

call it rice but ive been in a car at highway speeds when a carbon hood flys up....youll shit the rice you ate for lunch in your drawls. i do alotta highway traveling so i put them on days after i put the carbon hood on. i was in my friends integra when his fiber images hood latch let go and i thought i was going to die. yeah it breaks up the cleanliness of the hood but for me its well worth the piece of mind

[Mr. Win]

Then don't buy the hood.

[kudakev615]

thats your opinion and my opinion was to buy the hood and use hood pins for safety reasons. im trying to help inform other members of USEFUL information. what is your reason for being here?

[Kansei]

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.

[MTXPROTEGE509]

im gettin them regardless, dont matter to me, i feel i need them just wanted some suggestions, but ill be ordering them pretty quick here.

[FunkyBuddha]

dont get the pins.. thats rice at its finest

uhhm yeah...the pins are there IN CASE SHIT HAPPENS..not for someone to call them rice or not.


MTXPROTEGE509 - get the pins..BUT, the pins might pin down the front but the hood might still pop up on the sides. It MIGHT make the "bow" look worse.

[kudakev615]

its def an "ohh shit handle" for your hood. after being inna car with the hood flying up at 80mph its def a life changing event. though my hood might not do the same, its def a piece of mind knowing if it does im protected. sometimes you have to "grow up" and look past the "its rice, just dont buy the hood" blah blah blah BS

[DH Motorsports]

MTX, you have PM.

[Kansei]

They do make some pretty low profile hood pins, but if I'm going to do that I might as well just throw away the thousand dollars of PPG global paint that I got put on the hood so that it looks stealthy (as stealthy as a protege with an EVO vent in the hood can be)...

[boostdprotegelx]

so what'cha gettin?

[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!

[boostdprotegelx]

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

[boostdprotegelx]

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!

[boostdprotegelx]

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 fucked 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

[blkspdfreak]

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


MAZDA........toyota.....

PROTEGE......camry.....
(nuts)

[Mr. Win]

Funny things is it looks just as bad on both cars.

[Worbit]

question for those of you with hood pins on your CF hood. How are is it to install these? I have a set but i havent bothered to install then since im worried about making cracks in the hood. Can someone give me some pointers?

[SprNater]

hey MTX if you didnt get the pins and it still bothers you I will go down to toppenish and take it off your hands...(rofl)

[lyric911]

RE: Hood pins being rice

The drag strip around here requires hood pins on all non OEM hoods.

[Worbit]

got my hoodpins on last night and it didnt take too long (about an hour, maybe a little more)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/mer|in/hoodpins.jpg

[MTXPROTEGE509]

looks nice bro, what brand of pins are they bro.

[jeg0024]

Very nice!

[Worbit]

Sparco....got'em for $29.99 at a local tuner shop

[djarkitek]

I like the way they look with the carbon fiber....i want a cf hood now more...

[Worbit]

rumor has it that sparco makes CF hoodpins too......but i wasnt able to find them anywhere.

[Tiger Brand]

got my hoodpins on last night and it didnt take too long (about an hour, maybe a little more)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/mer|in/hoodpins.jpg
looks good

[DiS]

Hood pins or not. Thats your decision. You gotta think what exactly is the purpose of them. As kudakev615 said, hood pins primarily act as a fail-safe object if your hood latch on LF hood decides to take a dump on you while you're on the highways. I'd say go for it bro.

sounds like Mr. Win just spit some shit out.

Then don't buy the hood.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING INFORMATIVE AND HELPFUL TO POST THEN DON'T POST AT ALL!

If you're here (here....the forums) just to give negative comments or to flame people, YOU'RE NOT contributing any shape or form of the knowledge and therefore you're facing a perm ban.

If you feel that you don't have a purpose here, then you should just get up and get out!


A purpose? It an Internet forum... no one has a purpose here (excluding vendors/mods).
This forum was created AND still being maintained with ONLY ONE purpose, which is to help people with their Mazda related problems/suggestions (wether its a simple question on what would this perf. part do and would it be better to use this perf. part or something else or even if its a question on how to rebuild a motor or whatever or any other topic that involves ANYTHING that has to do with Mazda)

Everyone who is here on these forums has his/her purpose....wether its a question about something or the promotion of their products or whatever!


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.
This is a perfect example of asshole-like behavior and because of assholes like that, people who JUST joined the forums don't feel like coming back to here because they think that everyone else is like that as well.

People like you with negative comments are not tolerated here! either you put yourself in line and act like a normal person without flaming or trolling OR we're going to do that for you.

Take this as a warning as as whatever you want it to take as. Only know that next few times when you act like this again, will not be a warning anymore.