- 1. double locking hood (score: 1)
- Author: thorn <thorn@sonic.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00:26:38 -0800
- As Mark Dent mentioned, my '68 didn't have a secondary hood latch either, it used to pop up all the time while I was driving. Being a young teenage dude, I finally got used to it and continued drivin
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2000-01/msg00453.html (8,486 bytes)
- 2. Re: double locking hood (score: 1)
- Author: Magic1910@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:34:10 EST
- << It used to lay flat until around 80 or so, then it'd lift up a few inches. It never lifted more than a foot, even at HI speeds. >> That reminds me of driving home a newly purchased Roadster that d
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2000-01/msg00457.html (8,096 bytes)
- 3. Re: double locking hood (score: 1)
- Author: "Fred Katz" <fredkatz@2xtreme.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:34:34 -0800
- I appreciate the Brit's cars too, as well as our roadsters for the reverse hood. Back in the late 1960's I borrowed my sister's Fiat. I was doing 60 in the fast lane on the freeway when the hood went
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2000-01/msg00479.html (9,042 bytes)
- 4. RE: double locking hood (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Landskroner <Mlandskroner@mlg.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:58:18 -0500
- When my 240Z was stolen in 1988, I rented an Escort from Budget Rent a car and when I got on the highway (after having the car 5 minutes) the hood flew open, cracked the windshield and almost bent in
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2000-01/msg00480.html (9,942 bytes)
- 5. Re: double locking hood (score: 1)
- Author: Todd Osborn <trosborn@california.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:22:48 -0800
- My 68 (single latch) hood used to pop up during high speed corning. I suspect the body flexed enough to shake it loose. I found the the alignment of the plug (part on the hood) to the socket latch is
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2000-01/msg00540.html (9,276 bytes)
- 6. Re: double locking hood (score: 1)
- Author: Gary McCormick <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 07:52:58 -0800
- It would take a wind tunnel test (simulated or real) to confirm it, but I would suspect that the average pressure above the hood is significantly lower than below it. Right at the base of the windscr
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2000-01/msg00551.html (10,592 bytes)
- 7. RE: double locking hood (score: 1)
- Author: Greg_Behrens@radian.com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:21:54 -0600
- It would take a PhD in fluid mechanics to answer all the way but - the air inside the engine is also hotter than above it which would cause an increase in pressure below the metal. The rounded shape
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2000-01/msg00552.html (11,244 bytes)
- 8. Re: double locking hood (score: 1)
- Author: walter@omni.sps.mot.com (Thomas Walter)
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 00 14:42:04 CST
- ON my 68 2000, when I drove it back from the paint shop (used a friends spray booth), it did not have ANY latches or windshield in it. I was cruising along at 60 - 70, when a large Truck (small movin
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2000-01/msg00559.html (8,152 bytes)
- 9. Re: double locking hood (score: 1)
- Author: R Haug <haugchiro@moscow.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:05:40 -0800
- You people in good weather land make me jelous. I'm up here in Idaho with 30 degrees and snow on the ground. Just because my car is in a few thousand pieses doesn't mean I wouldn't like to drive my c
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2000-01/msg00566.html (7,897 bytes)
- 10. Re: double locking hood (score: 1)
- Author: "J Friederich" <jfried@anv.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:13:05 -0800
- This reminds me of ..... in 1986, living 30 miles from town, preparing to get the the 2000 painted. I had removed the doors, hood, & trunk and was driving the rest to the paint shop in town - and got
- /html/datsun-roadsters/2000-01/msg00574.html (9,011 bytes)
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