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speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:14

Thanks! I think they are a little more obtrusive than I thought they'd be actually lol.

Website · Postby **Shadowden** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:14

What caused you to need pins? Haven't you been running without them? They don't seem to fit with how smooth your car is, to me at least (not that you asked for my opinion). Nice clean install though I think the aerocatches would fit the build better. Definately understand the concern about cutting the hood though.

VRx8 · Postby **VRx8** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:14

I'm thinking AeroCatch, cutting the hood is so easy if you have a dremel and some cutting disc's.

My OEM hood was bowing at highway speeds, It started after I installed the V-Mount.

Or looking at it maybe if you paint them all black.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:14

Shadowden wrote:What caused you to need pins? Haven't you been running without them? They don't seem to fit with how smooth your car is, to me at least (not that you asked for my opinion). Nice clean install though I think the aerocatches would fit the build better. Definately understand the concern about cutting the hood though.

I had to have them because my hood is fiberglass and it was wobbling when going down the highway. When I was driving home on leave I looked through the vents and saw a gap between the front of the hood and the bumper. I looked at the hook on the hood and there was cracking around it. I'm not sure if they were already there or if stress did that, but I don't care for the idea of my hood flying back and smashing my windshield and the roof.

I don't think it flows very well with the smoothness of the car either, and originally I was going to get Aerocatch, but decided against them because I felt they had too large of a footprint. But now I think I might go ahead and swap out to those lol. I actually got these hood pins from Carol Mak that used to own the eggplant FD that was on the cover of Import Tuner a couple months ago.

VRx8 wrote:I'm thinking AeroCatch, cutting the hood is so easy if you have a dremel and some cutting disc's.

My OEM hood was bowing at highway speeds, It started after I installed the V-Mount.

Or looking at it maybe if you paint them all black.

Yeah I'm not too afraid of cutting the hood now lol. I might look into getting some Aerocatch latches now. I still can't believe your stock hood was bowing like that, even with a VMIC. That's just crazy.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:14

One other thing I love about having hood pins though, it makes the hood fit right finally haha. It's not sitting higher than the fenders now, at least not until all the way in the back. And it's uniform on both sides now too. So I might go ahead and just get this hood prepped and sprayed or at least ready for the vinyl wrap.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:14

Finally got the SBG fire extinguisher mount today. And finally I received something that fit correctly without any modification LOL. I installed it in about 20 minutes today.

Looking at it now, I might have to move the extinguisher towards the door more, it might hit the floor when trying to move the seat forward with the way it's mounted right now.

I also got the Border Racing radiator cooling plate a week or two ago, and I just started tonight to try to make a copy of it to fit my setup. The BR one is a little too deep and rests on my IC, it won't sit down between the bumper and IC unless I cut some off, and I'm not going to do that to this one. I'm going to cut a sheet of aluminum tomorrow to make a test mold, and if it works out I'll just use that one. Possibly paint it or get it powder coated, and I'm thinking of putting stickers on that piece but I'm not sure.

I also have this shot that one of the guys took when I was home on leave.

Website · Postby **Shadowden** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:14

great picture!

Were you a bit concerendd when everything went to gether easily with the bracket :lol:

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:14

I didn't even think about it until Zico mentioned how easy it went together lol.

_AlexTM · Postby **_AlexTM** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:14

Holy shiiiit. Those pictures are awesome. Looks amazing dude. Submit em to Mazda Fitment and they'll blow up im sure ha

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:14

Thanks! Some of those pics are already floating all over the internet actually. Every now and then I get someone tagging me on facebook with a pic found somewhere else. It really blew up when they were first taken back in October.

iani1.1 · Postby **iani1.1** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:14

now the hardest part is not forgetting you have a fire extinguisher while you're in panic mode LOL

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 9:14

^Yeah I thought about that too lol.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:14

Saw this on Facebook last night when a couple people tagged me. Thought it was kinda cool.

VRx8 · Postby **VRx8** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:14

Nice, your car definitely deserves to be there.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 9:14

Thanks buddy! I just thought it was kinda cool. I'm not sure who made it. It says Modified down in the corner but that might have just been on the pic of the Supra already.

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