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Originally posted by chikmagnet340:
Just out of curiousity, how much does the CF one weigh compared to the OEM one, and do these hoods require hood pins? 
Hood pins not required as it uses the stock latch but you prolly should use em as its weight and someon shoddy fitment may allow too much air underneath and with the heavy weight it could fly up.
Hood pins = ricer
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Originally posted by Fmr12B:
Originally posted by chikmagnet340:
Just out of curiousity, how much does the CF one weigh compared to the OEM one, and do these hoods require hood pins?
Hood pins not required as it uses the stock latch but you prolly should use em as its weight and someon shoddy fitment may allow too much air underneath and with the heavy weight it could fly up.
Hood pins = ricer
I don't like the hood pins either and would want it to look OEM unless you pop the hood. So I wonder how risky it would be to go without the hood pins.
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Any carbon fiber hood should have hood pins. Mine weighs roughly about 11 lbs comparing with a 40-45lbs OEM hood. It does shake and rattle a bit when youre driving over 55mhp without these pins. Would you be responsible if your hood flies off and injure or damage other vehicles behind you? Didnt think so.
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Fmr12B- hood pins are not RICE! they existed on classic american cars even before rice cars existed. 
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i'll put them on if necessary anyway. I don't think they look rice, I just don't like them. I don't like them on classics or anything. I think the sleeper look is best. To each is their own though. 
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they say 60%-70% lighter than stock. and there are no hood pins needed, it uses the stock latching system. just bolt on the new hood and your all set. My buddies in the probe club purchased afew and 2 put hood pins on and 2 didnt. That was over a year ago and no one had had a problem with them flying up yet. So it is really personal preference.
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Originally posted by Howie:
they say 60%-70% lighter than stock. and there are no hood pins needed, it uses the stock latching system. just bolt on the new hood and your all set. My buddies in the probe club purchased afew and 2 put hood pins on and 2 didnt. That was over a year ago and no one had had a problem with them flying up yet. So it is really personal preference.
Yeah but how fast are the Probe owners driving?
Carlos is flat out insane and I broke 110mph a few days back at 11am on 101...................
Mmmmmm Anodized red hood pins!
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Personally, I ended up with hood pins, even though I didn't want them in the first place. Too scary seeing that thing rattle up and down. Am I the only one that measures or weighs things around here? Gosh! 34 lbs. -- stock hood 14 lbs. -- carbon fiber hood 41% lighter. 
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haha, you dont think probe owners in the club drive fast? They have the same 1/4 times stock for stock as the SVT but handle, and brake better. You tell me who you thinks drives faster 
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Ummm...my previous car was a Probe GT. I feel that our CSVT are faster but everyone's opinion is different
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Okay,
One of my friends owns a body shop, and he has several customer cars at his shop, some of which have been featured in magazines, and most of the cars that have composite body parts (mainly hoods) have hoodpins, and the cars that didn't have had the hoods fly up at even just freeway speeds. On his personal cars, if it sports a composite hood or trunklid/hatch, he runs sometype of securing device (pins and external latches) on top of the "factory" style latches. I personally cannot stand watching my hood shaking and fluttering at highway speeds.
Another friend of mine owns a CF products company, and he said it is necessary to run pins on any composite hood.
Keep in mind, all of these CF hoods may have factory style latches, but the subframes that these CF hoods are bonded to(key word is "bonded") is fiberglass. Some are hand-layed, mine hoods subframe is chopper-gun glass. But the fiberglass is somewhat slightly weaker than CF, and it's my belief that the latches are bonded to the subframes, and fiberglass will fatigue faster than CF (obviously). So, it's not a matter of if, it's more of a matter of when the hood will fly up if you're not using pins.
dion
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