Where Is The Best Pace To Place The Number Plate?

[SOUPS]

saw lots of pics of elises and number plates have been put in diferent plces (front) where is the best place to place them?

[Steve J]

In the boot

[steve]

In the cargo net behind the seats.

[ipanter]

'Sorry officer, it just fell off on that speed hump there!'

[malbon]

Definately not stuck on the Clam. Small one made for the front or none at all.

[steve]

Actually i do have a small one ready to put on but i have been lazy and i really like it without. It is inevitable with the miles i do, that i'll get stoppped by the plod sooner or later.

 

Kinda been having the same thought s myself. If i get the chance, i'll stick it on with blutack and take some piccies of the different locations.

 

Steve

[malbon]

Curious as to where these different locations are ??

 

Clam or Plinth No ?

 

Its not good to block the front radiator by the way.

[Steve J]

I think Black Swan (apologies if not you) re-sprayed the front grill with the numberplate. Looked good.

[steve]

Sinclaires said that it wouldnt make too much difference. It will affect the running temperature but only by a degree or two. Would this be detrimental to performance / longevity of the engine?

 

Steve

[lesstatt]

I ordered a nice 3/4 size plate from Fancy plates and it looks fantastic, had to chop down the standard plinth though, just waiting to be stopped by plod now

[bermudabob]

Are the ones you stick on above the radiator vent legal or not?

[Black Swan]

Yes it was me, but I do have a slightly non standard front grill following a small incident earlier in the year so this may not look so good if you have the Lotus job:

 

 

 

Used the old plate to get number/letter sizes, sprayed grill black, stuck cup outs on with prit stick and sprayed grill white then removed cut outs ... easy as that. Inspiration was seeing a nice GT40 at a filling station the day before the last Midlands run which had dull aluminium letters/numbers mounted on its front grill.

 

Thought about a "small" plate, but my opinion was that if I did upset the law, and we all get close at times, old plate in boot better than something that could be construed as creating an illegal plate with the intention of law breaking.

[ipanter]

^ That looks great.

[bermudabob]

I can't quite tell from the picture - are there any holes in the grill left?

 

Or does it block the airflow...?

 

and what effect does it have on the rad?

 

all these questions...

 

[Black Swan]

Grill is a sheet of steel with a close patern of holes about 5mm diam I think, it is dark outside and I can not drag myself out to check. Rad temp still holds steady so no problem there but I do not think it will work quite the same with the standard expanded mesh grill. I stole the idea from a GT40 I saw a while back. With the standard grill it must be possible to mount plastic or metal letters/numbers on the grill as the Ford.

 

Peter