Requesting pic of hood pins on CF hood - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

quangtran89 · 03-19-2010, 11:07 AM

I would like to see how other gen 3 Camry owner have their hood pins installed.

I accidentally posted this in the for sale...silly me. Thanks for the move.

RichieRichJP · 03-19-2010, 11:53 AM

My photo gallery has a couple

quangtran89 · 03-19-2010, 12:00 PM

Where did you drill under the hood?

quangtran89 · 03-22-2010, 10:01 AM

Finally put the hood pins in =)

The guide pin wasn't long enough so my friend welded the bolt to the cross member for the pin to stick up a little higher.

RichieRichJP · 03-22-2010, 01:23 PM

Shit, sorry for no reply. Yeah, that's similar to where I had mine drilled.

bigbird · 03-22-2010, 04:12 PM

shit i just used the existing holes in the front of the rad support. install was real quick. glad ya got pins on it. i dont trust the CF hoods to stay put on their own.

EEngineer · 03-22-2010, 04:31 PM

man ur car is so clean it makes me wanna cry

RichieRichJP · 03-22-2010, 04:37 PM

Speaking of pins, I lost my CF hood a year back (not fastened properly) and had to run into the middle of the highway with oncoming traffic to save it. One car missed it by at least 2-3 inches.
Sadly I can still see spider cracks on it even after I had it painted black.

***prnc_chrmng*** · 03-22-2010, 05:03 PM

quangtran89 · 03-22-2010, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by bigbird

shit i just used the existing holes in the front of the rad support. install was real quick. glad ya got pins on it. i dont trust the CF hoods to stay put on their own.

I feel much safer with the pins! I adjust the rubber stopper by it was still moving a lot at higher speed.

quangtran89 · 03-22-2010, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RichieRichJP

Speaking of pins, I lost my CF hood a year back (not fastened properly) and had to run into the middle of the highway with oncoming traffic to save it. One car missed it by at least 2-3 inches.
Sadly I can still see spider cracks on it even after I had it painted black.

Sorry that happen to you. I was really afraid of something like that might happen to me.

***PhatRoyale*** · 03-23-2010, 07:58 AM

lol my hood already has cracks after it opened on me one day... luckily it was at slow speeds or else it would have smashed my windshield.

Needless to say, I installed hood pins the next day.

Mines got spider cracks in it as well, but I gave up to make it look clean after that, unless it's a show car of course.