I'm going to order my CF hood, but i want to put hood pins...from what ive told its very hard to drill carbon fiber. Not that its hard, but its tricky. If dont wrong it cant shatter and your screwed...any suggestions or? Reason for hood pins is, i dont truck carbon fiber latchs at 90 miles an hour

 

I don't know much about it, but I wouldn't do it myself if I were you. Did you do a search yet?

And is English not your first language or something? 'Cause I had to read that a couple times to make sense out of it. No offense, just wondering.

 

take a tungsten carbide that's the best, but for only 2 holes you can take a normal steel drill

 

I've ordered the CF RRM hood...
I myself am going to see how it fits... Of course they're going to recommend hood pins, but mitsubishimanny has one & he said the fitment's really good & he doesn't see a need for hood pins...
That could be personal preference... I'm just thinking before getting ready to drill into the thing... see how well/snug it fits...

 

dude ive gone freakin fast in the car with the hood on. dont wanna say how fastt cuz u know... but anyway the thing didnt fly off, so dont worry too much about it.

 

counter sink the holes or use a uni bit

 

I work at a Bicycle shop and I have cut down some CF bike parts and also many Road and MTB frames (for warrantys we need to send the part that got the serial#...it's not fun to cut down a $2k CF frameset...but at least the customer gets a new one w/o sending the full frame back and paying for the S&H!)....so before drilling put some clear tape in the area you are gonna drill (both top and bottom). By doing so you have less chance of delamination issues in the CF hood. Also applying some auto clearcoat with a small brush in the new holes will not hurt either!

 

I had the same questions before I started on the hood of my recently purchased Vivid Racing Evo. Here is what I did on the drilling once I decided where to put the holes. I put clear packaging tape on both sides of the hood where the hole was to be drilled. I don't know if you ever tried to hang a picture on a plaster wall but to keep the hole from spreading where you put in the nail or screw, put a piece of tape on the wall. Same idea with the CF hood. I had to end up with a 7/16 inch hole. With that in mind the first hole that I drilled I used my Dremel with a very small drill. That went fine. Next I used a 1/4 drill on slow speed with a regulat hand held Craftsman drill. Next I used a 3/8 drill on slow speed and then finally the 7/16. Be sure that you do not let the drill with the 3/8 or 1/4 or 7/16 "grap and twist the CF". They should only spin and, not jam and twist. Take your time with the drill do not get impatient For the holes in the radiator frame I used the two holes that were not taken and put the bolts through them.