headers question

i almost went to the BK tonight. I usually go to them. lots of nice cars and seems to be differant people there every weekend. I need to install my hood pins here soon. did you use the shelby mounts? how'd they turn out, pics?

5spd07gt wrote:i almost went to the BK tonight. I usually go to them. lots of nice cars and seems to be differant people there every weekend. I need to install my hood pins here soon. did you use the shelby mounts? how'd they turn out, pics?

i can get some pics but if your gonna be at the cruise you can see 1st hand. and yea i used the shelby mounts, let me tell ya tho i was terrified when drilling thru the hood (and it didnt help that at least 3 people came up to me and said during it "man your drilling thru the hood of that new...wow thats brave"....jacka$$'s) but it turns out its a rediculously easy install

i wont be making the cruise tomorrow. I have the shelby mounts but differant hood pins because i wanted them to be black. Did you install the mounts and pins then use the pin to mark the hood and drill the hole from the inside of the hood?

Sorry to hear you didn't get the headers installed, but at least you got some things done. After driving my car on the highway several times now, I don't see any hood shake so I highly doubt I'm going to reinstall my Shelby hood pins. I've heard about the cruisein at the BK, but haven' been yet. At the NVMC meeting earlier tonight, there were 31 Stangs that showed up

Not a fan of the hood pins, never have been. I think it ruins the look of the hood especailly if it's aftermarket.

5spd07gt wrote:i wont be making the cruise tomorrow. I have the shelby mounts but differant hood pins because i wanted them to be black. Did you install the mounts and pins then use the pin to mark the hood and drill the hole from the inside of the hood?

yep but i had to mark it twice (once for each hood layer) and i covered the top of the hood with maskingtape for number of reasons also make sure you put a couple of towels down over the engine and front end (huge mess for me of alum shavings everywhere. and as a marker i used mustard cause it shows up real well on black. Im not sure how the right way is to do it but i started with a small drill bit ,checked it,and then used a med sized ,checked it, and then that monster size bit, then got a handfile and made quick work of the rest. Ill ask someone to take a pic today for me and post it so you can see

Mustard to mark hole locations...nice!
Yes, you did the hole progression correctly