So I went and ordered my hood, pins and everything else to change my deer mod front end. Maybe I'm getting a little anxious, but I popped the hood and was looking for a good pin location and find no metal to place the pins in. The entire radiator support is plastic. Am I going to have add supports or what? I'm thinking I'm not going to trust some plastic to hold my hood down even at a modest 65MPH. Any help is greatly appreciated in advance.

 

You can replace your rad support for a metal one, I've seen them on ebay when I was looking a replacement for my broken support. I went OEM though and decided to order from Shokan. I didn't want to add weight to my car and if Audi decided against the metal, it must be for good reasons, they just don't pay those engineers top money to make dumb decisions.

 

They pay them top money for A LOT of dumb ideas. Weight would be a factor. I might look into those metal ones.

 

Thats odd, becasue I have no issue with my hood pins that are in the plastic radiator support and my car is ran at 135-140 mph. Plus I dont even have the stock hood latch on my car anymore.


There is actually a good spot on the radiator support right near the head light. It is basically a boxed in area with just enough room for a nut to slide into.

BTW why wouldn't you trust your radiator support seeing that the stock hood latch is mounted to it and I am sure no one has ever had a problem with their stock hood flying up on its own? Believe me you are way over thinking the hood pins at this point.


Pictures of my hood pin setups. Both using the same pin location on the radiator support.


My old setup



My newer setup



Shot of the pin location.

 

Thanks Mike that's exactly what I was thinking with the flush mounts and all. Love seeing that someone has no issues. Oh and yes I'm removing the stock hood catch.

 

hey mike... u got that old hood still? or did u sell it? or is it the same hood from ur old to new set up?