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What's wrong with using the standard latch with a bit of steel cable with a D shackle at one end and a carabina at the other end as a secondary (or tertiary...) bonnet restraint? :cheers:

What's wrong with using the standard latch with a bit of steel cable with a D shackle at one end and a carabina at the other end as a secondary (or tertiary...) bonnet restraint? :laugh:

Not everyone is as ghetto as you Matty. :cheers:

car mate sells and installs them, or try www.vsport.com.au they have the proper ones on there not the cheap chinese ones that break after a week of having them on the car like my ones did :-/ i will be buying the ones off vsport.com for my car.... they even have carbon fibre ones lol

its for a c/f bonnet matt not for cams rules.

I would not be running a c/f or fibreglass bonnet without bonnet pins of some sort, and the aerocatch ones don't protrude from the bonnet which might keep the cops happier (not that a c/f bonnet is legal itself lol). down side of the aerocatch ones is they don't really fit properly after a bit of use - so probably ok on a road car where the bonnet doesnt open often but a PITA for a race car where it opens all the time

Not everyone is as ghetto as you Matty. :)

What can I say, it's the drifter / R31 owner in me. If the solution costs over $50 then it isn't worth going for :nyaanyaa:

its for a c/f bonnet matt not for cams rules.

c/f and / or FRP bonnets don't come with provisions for a standard latch? Learn something new :nyaanyaa:

They do come with standard latching point, most people prefer to have extra restraint at the edges as at speed the more flexible CF bonnet can lift up at thefront corners and in extreme cases this leads to broken latchs and bonnets on windscreens...

To the op, get aerocatch flush mounting latches from vsport.com.au and get Greg at Autosport engineering in kirrawee to install them. I did and was very happy with his work, as I always am.

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