busapower2001 Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 I am at last legal... well the car is . I have got my plates and fitted the rear one easily with velcro. However the front doesn't seem to be so easy to fix on. I have the ducted nosecone and this doesn't have a nice vertical surface at the bottom (as the standard cone does) upon which to mount the plate. How have others with the ducted cone fitted their rigid front plate on? Cheers, Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterg Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Put a bit of double sided tape on the front of the nose.....and then keep the number plate in the car with you so if stopped....."it fell off earlier today, officer, here it is....I must try to get it to stick better next time" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steppenwolf Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 ..... or ...... I have two almost right angle brackets bent just past 90 degrees. One limb has a single hole to retain the number plate and the other limb has two holes. The number plate is attached to the bracket through the single hole in each by 20mm x 6mm stainless steel dome head bolts with two washers and locknuts in the following order:- Nut, plate, washer, bracket, washer, locknut. This gives minimum visual impact on the plate and by sandwiching the first washer, a very good seal is made at the back to stop the adhesive bubbling. The other limb of the bracket is attached to the underside of the nose cone so that the rear bolt goes through the nose cone AND the lip of the internal duct thus retaining it into the front of the nose cone. For this use 25mm x 6mm stainless steel dome head bolts with two washers and locknuts in the following order:- Nut, washer, bracket, nose cone, duct lip, washer, locknut. For the front bolt, use a plastic number plate nut and bolt into the underneath of the nose cone. This way, if you hit a low object whilst manoeuvering, the plastic bolt will shear warning you of the danger and if you are lucky, sparing you a damaged nose cone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterg Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Oi Stepps....what no pictures?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICHARD+PHILIP Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 USE PLASTIC BOLTS!!!!!! That's the most important part of stepps little essay It'sll save you a nosecone one day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAZ 4 Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Keep meaning to put mine on a hinge at the bottom of the nosecone, so as to go back if you hit anything, speed bumps, etc and also to fold back at speed Darren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 I have a similar solution as Steppenwolf on mine and my plate is at about 45° angle to the road to get more air to the rad. The plate itself is also bent in somekind of an S shape. About 1 cm of top and bottom are bent; the top one towards rad the bottom towards the front in order, again, to get more air in the nose. (the plate in this country are made of aluminium so you can actually bend them nicely, don't know if you can get some in the UK) I'll try to make a picture... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moomin Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 mine is easy... I used thin air... moom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 just get some letters and numbers and stick them on your nose cone. mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DENNISTHEMENACE Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Keep meaning to put mine on a hinge at the bottom of the nosecone, so as to go back if you hit anything, speed bumps, etc and also to fold back at speed What an excellent idea. A hinge that allows the number plate to swing back under speed making it invisible to specs cameras How would you do that for the back to avoid Gatso? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill.Ashworth Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 I got some brackets for this purpose from Westfield - sort of nearly 90 degrees with a bit of a curve! Didn't use them in the end because I have the standard nosecone, so it was easier to use the flat bit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busapower2001 Posted August 24, 2003 Author Share Posted August 24, 2003 Thanks for all the replies a nice set of responses. I wanted to use the car for the bank holiday so I had to knock something up quickly. It had to involve velcro. In the end I got some hard foam to put behind the nosecone, applied some velcro hooks to it (halfords I can't believe how handy a shop it is! and tehn velcro fuzz to the num plate. This was a bit iffy in holding on due to the fibreglass gap so I applied another layer of hooks and fuzz back to back to fill in the gap. Job done was worried about it staying in place but 200 miles later it's still there So my first 100% legal drive was a "long" distance (100miler) dusk then night time drive. Oh what a hoot! Those lights are excellent... nice effect going underneath trees. Can I sign up this country to build more rail bridges.... very long ones at that please. Such a nice noise going under them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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