toomchz4u

I picked up a VFN fiberglass 2 inch cowl hood locally last week for $230 from this chick that sold her car. Its in perfect condition. In the process of installing the hood I have noticed that my stock bolts for the hook beside the latch and the bolts on the bottom of the hood (up near the wipers) will not screw in all the way. The stock bolts for the struts and the latch which are smaller work perfectly. Anyone with a VFN hood know if there are special bolts that come with these hoods from them to install on these cars??? I called them but I talked to some chick who claims there isn't and I can use my factory bolts but I'm not trusting her response because I can't get them to tighten at all and I don't want to damage the hood trying to get them tight.

DeLaRosa25

should be direct bolt on? I have the 2" VFN cowl in my shed waiting for paint. Guess I should take a closer look.

VFN sucks W/ customer service. They dont know ****

toomchz4u

If I'm not mistaken somebody had 1 of these for sale recently in the for sale section and I believe they mentioned something about special bolts that came with this from VFN. Anybody else wanna chime in??? I'm planning to call them back or email them tomorrow.

shock6906

Make sure you're not cross-threading.

toomchz4u

I'm pretty sure they aren't crosthreaded. Its 4 bolts and they get to a certain point and won't go any further. They are nowhere near tight. That's what's leads me to believe they are the wrong bolts for this particular hood.

DeLaRosa25

That would suck if the bolt thing is true. I didnt get any

toomchz4u

Delarosa25 you bought yours new from VFN??? Or did you buy yours used like me??? If you bought yours new and it didn't come with anything then that answers my question I guess...

Z28SORR

Measure the depth of the hole, then measure the lenth of the bolt, if they"re to long BUY SHORTER ONES!!!

DeLaRosa25

Brand new. Shipped to my house. Even gave me stickers lol

endo

DO NOT USE YOUR FACTORY BOLTS-They use 5/16" Standard bolts for the backs and 1/4x20 for the struts and latch, if you use your regular factory bolts they will strip out the inserts in your hood,

toomchz4u

Thanks for the responses fellas it looks like I may be fu--ed with this but I will try to get the stock hood bolts out tomorrow and see if I have messed the hood up.

DeLaRosa25

PLZ post up what happens. I would like to be prepared for when I install mine

endo

You Guy's should call them and ask them to send you each a set of bolt's its the least they should do!

ur jlus

I will check with the body shop that is installing mines on monday. I will post to let you know about bolts.

toomchz4u

Thanks but I've already found out that the stock bolts do not work. Endo gave the correct sizes above. Learned an expensive lesson with this as I have ordered a brand new flat fiberglass hood from vfn that should be here in a couple of weeks.