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Flush fit bonnet pins
scopes:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on June 12, 2012, 03:18:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: ianv5 on June 12, 2012, 11:51:54 am ---
Where do you mount the pins to? Also do you think it would be an issue cutting a standard metal bonnet?
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....No more of an 'issue' than cutting into a carbonfibre bonnet. The key is to mark it up accurately and cut with care and patience.
--- Quote from: scopes on June 12, 2012, 11:55:18 am ---
Good Point as to where the pins go, do the lights get in the way?
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....No, when you next open your bonnet you'll see potential fixing locations which are not too close to the headlight units.
I'll see if I've got some pics later to help.
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Cheers Robin,
I have seen them & thought, thats where to put them, but on the next thought, the lights would have got in the way there...Due to the pin length!
RedRobin:
^^^^
Okay, whereas the further forward that AeroCatches are fitted, the less leverage any wind/airflow will have to force open your bonnet, the anchor pin bolts obviously need to avoid the headlight units. At the same time, the other important consideration is what part of the car you bolt the anchor pins to. The bonnet slam panel is steel and sufficiently substantial. So I have fitted mine more or less in the same position as Neil. The difference is aesthetic in that I have dissected the angle between the bonnet edge and bonnet crease which meet in a 'V' at the front edge.
^ Dissecting the angle and marked out for cutting.
^ Angle dissected so aesthetic lines lead into the point of the 'V'.
^ There is no clash with the headlight units (OEM Xenons in my case).
An alternative would have been to use one of the twin OEM Torx positions to fix the AeroCatch pin through the slam panel to the steel car body itself (shown red in my case). But perhaps this is where it may have necessitated shortening the AeroCatch pin to avoid the headlight unit. This isn't possible on the passenger side with a Twintake installed because one of the Twintake's intakes uses the two OEM Torx fixings.
^ I had to avoid my Forge Twintake.
^ Best to have a little movement in the anchor so that the male AeroCatch mechanism can ease into the pin's female opening.
Rather like.... Let the Gentleman Sausage meet the Lady Garden gently.
I have chosen to retain my factory fitted bonnet catch in addition to the AeroCatches and am in the habit of always releasing the AeroCatches BEFORE releasing the OEM bonnet catch from inside the car. This avoids putting undo strain on the AeroCatch mechanisms.
Mk5 GTian:
--- Quote from: matty_jetta on June 15, 2009, 05:28:55 pm ---They look sick. You know theres a serious engine under the bonnet when you need pins to hold it down! :happy2:
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They look wicked! (I'm a bit too old to use the word 'sick' unfortunately!)
dadangerman:
i wouldnt have the bottle to do that. but good work the final result looks nice and subtle
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