if you get a carbon fiber hood you should add them my buddy had a cf hood that uses stock latches but the cf breaks easy so it flew off and smashed the hood
The main function of hood pins are to hold the hood from flying up in case the latch breaks loose. They are usually found on older cars and added today mainly for looks... but they have nothing to do with rice cars if they add them or not. This is the Shelby GT-H straight from Ford
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Yea I don't see them as rice at all. I see it as an old school look. Really no point in my opinion except to draw you away from amaking your car go faster by spending money in places that aren't needed!LOL Just make them go fast, no make them look fast lol
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Has anyone ever taken their car to 100 mph and the hood starts wobbling around? That kind of freaks me out a bit, like it's going to swing up and land on my windshield, leaving me blind at 100mph. Maybe if I was doing lots of 1/4 mile runs and that kept happening, I would get them because stuff like that gets inside my head and bothers me, LoL. I probably wouldn't ever get the non-functional ones. Lots of people on the forum have done it though, your choice. Just about anything can be called "rice" anymore.
there a few models of hood that specify you need them once you exceed a certain speed, like the Steeda "cowl" hoods, specify the addition of hood pins for driving over 80mph. I mean, if you EVER see a highway, there's a good chance you'll be over 80 on occasion right?
Other than that, they're a cool aesthetic thing, just gotta decide if you feel justified in sporting em; your car right?
Many companies recommend hood pins for fiberglass hoods, so that makes them functional, not to mention really cool looking. When I get my fiberglass hood, I'm definitely getting pins. It adds an old school look, like others have said. In my opinion, if you have a stock hood and put pins in it, it's dumb, and the nonfunctional hood pin appearance kits available are utterly stupid. Rice? I'm not sure, but the appearance kits are definitely close and in the category of "Why the hell would you waste your money?"
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The real ones come out of the hood at a funny angle depending on where you mount them. I have stick on ones that are there just for that old school look. fang performance used the twist loc kind from the 71-73 mustang on their, but had to put them way up the hood so they would go through straight. I like the twist loc kind, but I don't have those on my 73 mach.
I would be worried about the metal retaining cable rubbing the paint off my hood at speed
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