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how to install hood pins?
hey guys i have a '95 GSR, and i just installed my carbon fiber hood , so i thought i would go out to buy hood pins, I'm wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on installling them? They are sparcos, and its on a vis oem hood. Any help would be awesome.
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Until someone who has actually done it chimes in, i'll tell you what I 'think'. Basically all your doing really is drilling through the hood and through the rad support. Correct me if i'm wrong. Didn't they come with instructions? Do a quick google search it should come up. hth
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:imwithSeanith: Pretty sure the pins just mount to the rad support and up through a hole in the hood, pretty straightforward
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DO THE RAD FIRST!!!!!!!!!!! dont drill holes in the hood first, do the RAD first and the check and make sure everythin lines up about three hundred times before you drill into a cf hood,
and for my opinion, please dont
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I wasn't about to pay a shop $100 to put two holes in my hood.
I drilled my own holes for the pins and washer nozzles. Kinda scary at first, but not that bad... there were already extra holes on my rad support molded out where I could put the pins and they would sit perfectly vertical (see pics), and to my surprise, looking underneath the hood, there were indents right where the pin should go through. Its almost like honda expected me to put hood pins there! And its exactly where I wanted them.
I don't know if you will have those holes on your rad support, but my civic had them, so it made it easy. I then put some touch up paint on the top of the pins, then closed the hood so the paint would mark where to make the holes. DO NOT USE A DRILL unless you start of with a small bit and work your way up. I used a dremel, it takes longer, but was more precise.
Here are 2 pics of the rad support, note that those holes were already there, and molded so the pins sit flush.
Feel free to ask any more questions, and I will try my best to answer them.
illmotion: http://www.illmotion.com
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