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Post by Redsway76 Mon May 25, 2009 1:14 am

Ok is it just me or is this massive hook the most annoying dman thing on these cars i think everytime im under the hood ive busted my skull on this thing so its time to remove it and go to hood pins i just figured id vent a little on here see what everyone things of this. my big debate is should i remove the hook and latch or just the hook ??? i got some pretty heavy duty stainless hood pins should be enough to hol it down. oo well if nothing else it will look real cool and make it go so much faster lol bounce
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Post by IndyG3 Mon May 25, 2009 1:59 am

If you wanna use the hood pins, then go ahead and get rid of the hook, since that was the problem in the first place. Might as well lose the latch too.

Oh, and if it's got hood pins, you better make sure that thing's fast! Smile
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Post by Redsway76 Mon May 25, 2009 4:09 am

oo this thing is gonna be one mean 305 hehehe Shocked its got like 4 sticker son the back bumper those alone ar elike an extar 31 horsepower from stickers alone add the hood pins were talking another 15 horsepower at least lol
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Post by IndyG3 Mon May 25, 2009 4:29 am

It saddens me that I used to know people in high school that swore that the number of stick-on-doodads on your car was a measure of it's performance Crying or Very sad
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Post by Redsway76 Mon May 25, 2009 1:51 pm

lol oo i knew plenty of thme myself in highschool
but i still enjoy a few tastefully placed stickers here and there
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Post by Laguna Budman Mon May 25, 2009 1:58 pm

Had a guy at my friends shop tell us his engine was producing about 400 Horse. We asked how he was sure of that and he replied with this " I raced a guy last week with 380 horse and I beat him by 2 cars "

Funny stuff huh
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Post by coreys73chevelle Mon May 25, 2009 3:46 pm

im getting hood pins for mine, latch and pull is removed
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Post by McCauley5983 Mon May 25, 2009 4:09 pm

im not a big fan of hood pins on our cars. they just look weird
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Post by Limey SE Mon May 25, 2009 5:40 pm

i am going with lockable pins to lose the big rod sticking thru (yea i know the hood is cut already so whats the diff)

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Post by Redsway76 Mon May 25, 2009 7:21 pm

glad to see i wont be the only 3rd gen running hood pins then alien
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Post by coreys73chevelle Wed May 27, 2009 12:20 am

im going to make a pin on fiberglass hood for mine so i have to use pins
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Post by 74MonteCarlo Wed May 27, 2009 8:01 am

Billy-Ray, I agree. I don't like them either.

I would take off the hook, but leave the latch.
The second generation Chevelles that had hood pins also had a latch.

Just my $0.02.

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Post by jonny o Wed May 27, 2009 2:27 pm

Normally in the drag world I see pins on cars with stock hoods as a safety on the outer edges. If you are going to pull the guts out of it, I would go for 4 pins across the front as opposed to the normal 2 on the edges.

Just my opinion though as I have seen my hood flop around up there at 100+mph.

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Post by The Dude Wed May 27, 2009 3:46 pm

IndyG3 wrote:It saddens me that I used to know people in high school that swore that the number of stick-on-doodads on your car was a measure of it's performance Crying or Very sad


Coming from the guy with a sticker engulfed NASCAR Laguna as his avatar, lol! J/K.
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