Cool hood pins

Saw these on my buddies crawler the other day... pretty sweet if you ask me. Nice urethane bumper to keep the vibes at bay. :-D


Summit Racing Daystar Hood Pins





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Well I would lose one of the clips in about 5 min.

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mellow65
Well I would lose one of the clips in about 5 min.

That long? shit! you mean you can concentrate like Buddha?! Wha!!!

I'd loose things before they were installed!

I'd lose those things before I opened the BOX.
Sheeeut I'd lose parts before I got back from the mail box!


Best is to not order them and lose them now, and save me all the grief of losing them later.

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He's gonna be bummed when the cable leaves a nice big line on his paint job.

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I used those Daystar ones on my XR4Ti - I liked em, and they did a great job of not vibrating. They were pretty cheap too (got 'em on fleabay for a song). They conform to angles too, so if you have a funky angle, they don't care too much.

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NoCoast
He's gonna be bummed when the cable leaves a nice big line on his paint job.

There's a way to twist the cable when you install the pin so that internal torsion/tension holds the cable away from the paint.

No freakin' idea why Chrysler put hood pins on cars from the factory. They're a pain to deal with and they rust quickly because friction from removing/installing takes the chrome off. Ford wasn't much better with the thread-on hood pins on certain Mustangs.

The only nice thing I can say about hood pins is that they are a better alternative to the windshield wearing a hood. But that is just because so many automakers hinge the hood at the wrong end.

(I'm twice a member of the hood smash club. Subaru hood is made of Reynolds Wrap and conforms easily. VW hood weighs as much as an entire Subaru and smashed the roof hard enough that the new windshield didn't fit right to the point where the first replacement actually broke)

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Cleveland, Ohio

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What has happened to our beloved Rallyanarchy when the latest topic is some cheesy hood pins?

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John Vanlandingham
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Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I tried to bring Subaru and VW to the topic. Sorry no Volvo, people didn't buy those here except for after they were rebadged Mitsubishis and Fords.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

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Pete
I tried to bring Subaru and VW to the topic. Sorry no Volvo, people didn't buy those here except for after they were rebadged Mitsubishis and Fords.

Well you did touch on an impossible to understand defect in the design of so many cars: hoods that pivot for the wrong end and the very expensive results of some dumb fawk "injur-near" not thinking ahead when they pivot in the wrong way---at the base of the windshield.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

Dude Miata with hood pins! Rad.

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damn stupid engineers... glad i'm not one... oh wait

the hood pins were the only thing to survive on front of the gti at nameless. the drivers was still attached to the hood even tho the core was a foot back.

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NoCoast
He's gonna be bummed when the cable leaves a nice big line on his paint job.

Original A12 cars (that's a 6 BBL / 6 PACK scoop in that shot) used a short cable originally designed to limit the glovebox door to hold the pin and would not allow the cable to touch the paint.



But, as long as they are plastic coated, the paint will be fine. 50k+ on one of the cars I drive with fiberglass hood and pins... no issues.

Other cars did come with long cables from the factory as well. I always liked the reuse of other parts on the original A12 cars though.

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