Holy crapamolie! Look what happened to this guy when he was drag racing! His hood flew up at him @ 95 mph!
Hood pins are your friend...
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Roland69
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hemi_fan
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lucky i'd say! no roof or hood damage really! Seen that at least a dozen times on here now... i dunno why people still insist that they dont need pins if they dont have a stock-style latch in their hood.
1.8kmint
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That damage is respectable.... What was his time??? XD .... showing the latch would be cool to if you have any pics.
black87ttop
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seen this happen so many times now, its unbelieveable. Most of the time the winshield breaks, he got lucky, but he is till fubard, i heard thats a minimum of about a 1000 dollars to fix. From what i was told, that cowl area is spot welded in with like a thousand spot welds. lol making it very time consuming and expensive to fix. sucks for him
But you forgot to mention one thing;...... he said specifically that he just eased the hood down and never check to see if it was closed.
So isn't that like having hood pins on you hood and thinking that your hood won't fly up.... but then you didn't put the pins in, or am I missing something here?
It's operator error and nothing more!
5.0fox
Member
This is a friend of mines car. The damage is pretty bad. He just cut a whole cowl panel out of a car at a junkyard and will be swapping it in. Believe it or not the hood is not damage a bit!
that happened with my old 94 cobra, it knocked my fenders outta alignment too though. i was still using a stock style latch too. luckily i was only goin about 45 when it happened, i had just gotten off the interstate where i was doin about 75-80
Kabuki_notch
Founding Member
been there, it's such a scary feeling it's like someone cover's your eyes when your driving. Mine flew up and stayed up for about 5secs or so then smashed down. I was lucky the damage was minimal.
Flavadave4
Active Member
I have seen this a few times where the windshield breaks, dents the roof and pulls the quarters up...If I were him I'd consider myself lucky.
blackened88lx
Active Member
I can't even count how many times I have seen this happen with cowl hoods. What's the reason? Is it just not latched properly?? That's the only type of hood I've seen it happen with.
PUNISHER RACING
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NKau
Founding Member
Even with the factory latch, I think the fiberglass hoods can 'flex' enough to let the latch slip out.
Flavadave4
Active Member
Yeah that seems to be the problem, has anyone seen another way to latch them other than using pins? They look ok on some cars but I dont think I would ever want to put hood pins on my car.
Maybe a short cable under the hood you could remove by hand once the hood is popped a few inches?
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