Getting my new hood soon, and was wondering if flush mounted hood latches are nhra legal, or even strong enough for 145 mph.

 

You can attach a hood with Dzus fasteners if you want. I use stock hinges with 2 hood pins and 2 Dzus fasteners at the front.

Having to undo 10+ Dzus fasteners when you need to get under the hood in a hurry may cause some problems.

 

I like the dzus fasters because they're flush, but like alky said, who wants to fumble with that **** when there's a fire underneath your hood. I don't like lift off hoods because they're a pita when in the pits by yourself. Factory hinges with 2 pins is what I'd do. To this day still just using the factory latch. Also been worried about it flying off so ill do the hood pin thing eventually. No NHRA rule that I know about. Haven't skimmed through the book in a while though.

 

i'm going to take the latch off and put two dzus fasteners on the leading edge towards the middle. i have aerocatch hood pins already.

 

Aerocatch is what I was looking at. Can you post pics?

 

here ya go:


be sure to get the genuine Aerocatch's made in the UK as i'm not sure i'd trust the knock offs. the real ones run about $75

 

The 2 aerocatches aren't enough with out the latch??

 

probably, but the hood bows a bit somewhere past 115mph and i'm looking to take advantage of all the aerodynamics of the front of the car as possible, so i'm pinning the front to keep it from bowing up.

 

Gotcha. I was hoping I'd be ok with just the 2 latches. We'll see.

 

any pics of the studs beneath the hood?

 

no, didn't take any. they're just aluminum hood pins basically.

 

got cha, looks good

 

I've been 175mph with the stock latch and no issues. I only go rid of it, because I was trying to lose more weight with the car.

 

i'm very confident the stock hood latch would do fine by itself, but i'm also on a diet mentality at the moment so it's coming off, lol!