 Where to mount bonnet pins? |
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| Rough_Rider |
 Dec 20 2004, 01:44 PM
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Smurf Zone  Group: Members Posts: 525 Joined: 16-August 04 From: Beaverton, OR Member No.: 2,547  |
Picked up some bonnet pins (Yeah i know you all call em hood pins, but i'm Irish, therefore i'm illiterate)
I figure there's two obvious location for mounting. Above the light buckets Or on the bonnet leading edge. I like the leading edge location better but i'm unsure how to mount the long threaded part. Any pic's how how this can be done? |
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| J P Stein |
Dec 20 2004, 01:55 PM
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Irrelevant old fart Group: Members Posts: 8,797 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Vancouver, WA Member No.: 45 Region Association: None |
I dunno, but when you get it sorted out, post pics (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)
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| Jeroen |
Dec 20 2004, 02:07 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 7,887 Joined: 24-December 02 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 3 Region Association: Europe |
take out the little rubber hood stops (in the corners near the headlight buckets) and mount the pins there
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| Rough_Rider |
Dec 20 2004, 02:30 PM
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Smurf Zone Group: Members Posts: 525 Joined: 16-August 04 From: Beaverton, OR Member No.: 2,547 |
Cheer's J's
The easy install is simply removing the rubber bumper, like in the pic. However i'm concerned that only having pins up there could allow air to flow under the ledaing lip of the bonnet & potentially cause a flip up. Thus i'd like to put pins down on the leading edge. Now when i looked the other night, eyeballing the shelf below the bonnet i guestimated it wasn't far enough into the trunk space to allow the screw piece to sit vertically. Thus was hoping someone could post a pic of how they'd tackled the problem. My thought is to weld a small bracket onto the shelf in the lower corner of the bucket to extend it out & simply screw the piece on. Would that work??? Attached image(s) 
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| Jeroen |
Dec 20 2004, 02:42 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 7,887 Joined: 24-December 02 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 3 Region Association: Europe |
Yep |
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| machina |
Dec 20 2004, 02:50 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 2,030 Joined: 21-June 03 From: Miami Beach, FL Member No.: 848  |
I have a pair installed in the bumper stop locations and my hood does lift. I will be installing a second pair at the leading edge corners soon. I don't think the hood would lift to the point of bending or shearing the pins without the extra set but I don't like that little 1/2" gap at speed.
I have noticed that many 914's in all race classes seem to run 4 hood pins. Attached image(s) 
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| greg.treadway |
Dec 20 2004, 03:00 PM
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914 Nut Group: Members Posts: 282 Joined: 16-December 04 From: Marietta, GA Member No.: 3,295 |
I think all four hood pins are necessary as on the original GT cars. See the extreme makeover page on our website and you can see the placement based on one of our 914 GT cars.
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| brant |
Dec 20 2004, 03:14 PM
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914 Wizard Group: Members Posts: 11,639 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Colorado Member No.: 47 Region Association: Rocky Mountains 
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My theory (haven't reality tested it yet!) is that a metal hood should be strong enough to survive having just 2 pins instead of 4 on the leading edge...
where-as a glass hood more likely would need the 4 but I think that to get by with just the 2, they would need to be at the very front of the hood... this is how I did mine, but like I said it hasn't been run in anger yet. brant Attached image(s) 
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| brant |
Dec 20 2004, 03:15 PM
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914 Wizard Group: Members Posts: 11,639 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Colorado Member No.: 47 Region Association: Rocky Mountains
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and other side:
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