Carbon Fiber Hood, do you have to have pins
 

just got my carbon fiber hood delivered today and its beautiful. I want to know if you have to have hood pins on carbon fiber hoods? I hate the idea of drilling into this piece of art but I do not want the hood flying up and busting my windshield either. What do you guys think/ experience

I used to have a CF hood that kept unlatching at speed. It was enough that I sold it. I've seen several people on here report CF hoods flying off or cracking their windshields since 05. IIRC member Bmccann101 had his fly off on the freeway awhile back, he made a post about it.

Aerocatch pins, they look great and will keep it secure

I don't use pins

+1 aerocatch pins.

I'll post pic later. Just measure 15 times before cutting. ;)

Pins are a must, I use the regular old school style ones

As long as you rem to check them......I had some nice person remove my 'Old School' ones on a diff car years ago. Sux pretty hard when your hood becomes your windshield doing 40 mph.......

I wouldn't feel safe without pins. It would be like going raw dog on a girl thats known to sleep around, it probably wont give you chlamydia but why risk it.

Do carbon fiber hoods for the Z even offer a significant weight reduction? The OEM hood is aluminum and weighs hardly anything. If it's a looks thing, I get it (You know, "because race car!")...or do most people go for louvered/vented CF hoods for heat evacuation because of track use? To me that makes the most practical sense (Form and Function).
-Icer

Most of the time its for looks, the track junkies and FI's Zs need heat evac. The wet carbon hoods almost always weigh more than OEM. The only ones that weigh similar to an OEM hood or less are made from dry carbon. Most Z owners now, likely won't fork over the 2K starting price for a dry carbon hood.

I have it because I don't want to drill holes in my oem wall art hood for the pins.

which company did you get ur CF hood from and which model hood?

My OEM style carbon fiber hood is 1lb heavier than the stock hood