it doesnt matter you will have to cut the hood. it wont make it weaker. Ff anything just a cheap carbon fiber hood use hood pins and that will work. On my old crx I had a carbon fiber hood that was janky as hell. cut a big hole in it put a spray painted black peice of sheet metal on it. to clear the hasport mounts. the that hood flew up went over the side of the bridge because I had cheap apc hood pins and one broke. i then had a civic hatch back hood with the skeleton cut out and had not one problem going 180kmh+ (jdm gauge cluster ) so just cut away at the stock hood and dont look back it will be fine.trust me you wont be happier. if you are scared after cutting it and you dont think your stock hood latch will hold it down then get sparco hood pins which are really nice.