those of you without hood pins on your hood, when your going highway speeds, do you see the hood shaking up and down? my hood looks like its vibrating at speeds above 50. it was put on by the body shop about a year ago. at times it makes me nervous, but ive never had a CF hood before, so i dont know if this is par for the course since they are so damn light.

 

my stock hood does that!

 

yeha my stock hood does that alot too
i think there was a post about this and people put some tape on the latch to reduce the space in there

 

ditto on that stock hood shaking crap...

 

there was a tsb for the hood shaking.

 

i was thinking that, wrapping some sort of electrical tape or something around the latch, exhaust tape, etc, i was just afraid something could snag and i wouldnt be able to open my hood.

 

yeah but for something like that, they wont even look at me if i have a CF hood.

 

hey KCM, I don't have hoodpins on my VIS and I finally drove on the freeway....I notice it lifts up a little bit around 75....but it doesn't shake or make abnoxious noises....

I do have a set of sparco hood pins at the pad....I needa know how to install these...well I know how to...but I want someone who is handy with a drill to do them...I'm too scared

 

arent they supposed to include a template?

 

Nope there is no template....heres what they look like http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SPARC...spagenameZWDVW

 

hey bro, i dont notice any noise or anything, but it does lift up and depending on speed and wind, shake around...i just really hate the hoodpin look.

 

yeah I hate the hoodpin look as well....but after this stupid a$$ 2nd accident I had gotten into...I'm not taking anymore risks....these hoodpins will go on!

at what speed does it start to shake? I been up to around 85-ish...didn't hear or notice any shake.....I can see it lift up tho....haven't tried anything above 85 tho

 

it usually starts around 65 or so, i see it lift up, and then it appears to be vibrating. when i say shaking, i dont mean left to right, more or less up and down. but i dont hear anything ever.

 

ic ic...yeah I get the same then....kinda scary and I'm not about to take anymore risks...i just needa find someone to install these hood pins...

 

yeah you guys dont want the hood taking flight and hitting the windshield, cracking abd breaking up and flying off

 

Wow, I thought i was the only one who had this problem. My stock hood bounces up and down when I hit about 100 KM/H and if there is a strong headwind it gets kinda scary.

 

My VIS CF hood shakes a bit during highway speeds but no too much. more like the middle of it goes up and down a little when i hit bumps.

 

I have the hoodpins on mine. I just feel safer with them. There are tips for installing yourself. Get some resin to seal around the hoodpin holes and pre drill the holes for the three screws that holds the pin to the hood. There are two holes right next to the headlight that are perfect for the pins. Use a red grease and put on tip of pin and set hood on them. Drill where the grease marks the hood. In my experience I didn't seal around the holes so I ended up cracking around them. But I have a backup plan by having a boat repair place seal cracks and paint the hood almost like Pearl's. I got a lot of bodywork to get done.

 

Put a few passes of electrical tape around the latch of the hood and you should be fine. My stock hook did that for a long time and after tightening everything and making sure that everything was down all the way, I got no where. I put a little hockey tape around the latch because I didn't have any electrical tape at that time and the next day I heard nothing, no movement at all. After a few weeks after the tape ripped right in the middle, I heard it again. Used electrical tape and everything has been fine for months. There was just too much space between the part that locks and the latch. I didn't notice any sound until after my headlight was stolen and my hood had to be repaired.

 

You guys know you can adjust the hood bump stops, right?

 

Jeremy can u take some pictures of your latch with the electrical tape wrapped? I would like to see how this works...

 

I get the same issue, but I don’t believe its anything you have to worry about. I talked to one guys that says he has 600hp in his car and has a VIS hood and not hood pins and other than a little shaking the hood has never flown off. I do get a like nervous about the shaking though and remember getting the same shaking from my stock hood too. Which leads me to believe its a design flaw with the aerodynamic.

 

KMC My stock Hood used to shake a lot, but now with my Vis Cf and My sparco hoodpins, it shakes a lot less then my stock hood that wieghed a lot more. You will really adjust the look on the pins once you put them on, because from before i liked it without the pins, BUt now the pins math my headlights because i blacked out my 2k2 Headlight Housing... But for me i wouldnt take the risk.

 

My stock hood used to do that at about 80mph But I had that problem fixed.
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