Hood Pin location for aftermarket hoods

[gtcsmustang]

With the Trufiber GTS-3 hood, and many other hoods, a wider setting of the hood pins is needed due to design constraints surrounding location of ram air channels and hood height/thickness.

The original location of the factory rubber hood stop provides a nice location for the pins. And the rubber stop can be relocated to an existing hole right near it's original location. This pin location lines up nicely with the circle on the under side of the new hood for the hole that the pin travels through.

Also you will have to twist the pin and the top latch to a 4 and 10 o'clock position on the passenger side of the hood and the drivers side to an 8 and 2 position. The exact clock position of the pin is determined by the angle of the hood at this location. A hood with a more level plain will need less, if any postioning away from the traditional 6-12 o'clock.

The bodyshop that installed my hood chose this location after we both considered our options. The hole we used to set the pin in where the factory rubber stop was located is slightly smaller then the pins I used, (UPR Hood Kit). And access to under side of the hole is not easy without major dissasembly so the shop used a, I think they called it, a bolt anchor? They did have wo widen the existing hole some, but not much. The pins almost fit thru the existing hole but not quite so it only needs a hair more room. How much they opened it up to set the anchor I'm not sure but it is all hidden by the pins bolts and washer anyway.

As you see I have black radiator extension covers. The hole already exists for the pins as the rubber stops went there anyway. You'll have to carefully locate and drill a hole for the new location of the rubber stops. Start with small pilot holes and do several test fits before drilling the final hole to the size needed, that will depend on what size stop you used. The shop went with a smaller stop then the original because the secondary hole used for the new location is slightly smaller.

First photo on left shows the original rubber stop before relocating, next photo is after relocating it to nearby existing secondary hole and installing pin in the original rubber stop location. Third and fourth photos show clock position of pin and latch. Last photo on the right shows the hole location on the underside of the hood. Which I think turns out nicely, set within the existing circle, and looks clean without the supplied underside steel plate the kit provides.

[waytoomanycars]

Good write-up, did you have to do any mods to grill area to get the KR hood to fit?

[gtcsmustang]

Good write-up, did you have to do any mods to grill area to get the KR hood to fit?

Not really. The bodyshop did loosen the fender bolts to help lineup the hood perfectly with the fenders. That was about it. Since this post I took out the hood stops and slid a Needa Part Ford Shock absorber bushing #310184 onto the pins to use as a hood stop. It looks even better now and works nice! Here's a pic

[Tifosi2003]

I have no need for this info BUT you have a very nicely done Gt !!!!!!!