[socal_kouki]

I purchased NRG's hood pin set. The Carbon Fiber one and it gave me a few problems. It's easy to install but the lock itself would jam up.
The design was the main problem, not the materials used. It uses a multi-peice washer type of thin nuts to hold the face of the lock tight onto the hood.. which are suppose to prevent slippage by being tightened against themselves.
It probably looked good on paper but if you open your hood at least once a week I wouldn't recommend it. The durability of the actual threaded cylinder on which the flat nuts scroll onto loses it's integrity I imagine with all the heat and flex that the pin is exposed to.