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Originally Posted by jperickson2001
Use a piano hinge so it flips horizontal when at speed.
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I like the idea, but would be a bit uneasy with the "flapping" noises that I could see ensuing, unless it were lightly spring loaded to keep it from flapping about...and then the spring might well keep it from flipping up (or, perhaps, down?) into the horizontal position.
I could, however, see the piano hinge idea working with an adaptation:
How about a cable, sort of like a manual choke cable, just attached to the lower edge of the front plate? It could be used to raise (in my case) the license plate to horizontal and keep it from flapping around, at the same time avoiding the necessity for a spring. The downside I see would be the length of cable one would need to pull out with the knob on the dash (or, hidden under the dash)...a bell-crank system could be fitted to eliminate that problem.
I have mine bolted at the top to the body between the fishmouth opening and the
oil cooler opening (don't use an
oil cooler, either). At the bottom I bent the license plate and bolted it to the bottom of the body under the
oil cooler opening, it functions sort of like a skid plate for those times when the front end of my Cobra's body would drag (which is almost every time I pull into the driveway of my current residence).
I will post a photo soon...it works for me since there is no need for an oil cooler in my case.
Cheers!
Dugly
