son's school prom

[sonicbloo]

Couple of pics from tonight, took my son Jack to his school prom in the Viper.

[v82fas]

Viper looks good. Gonna have to get myself up to leeds. which Saturday is the meet on?

[HTP99]

Great, I suggested to my daughter I'd take her to her prom this coming Thursday in works Twizy, she wasn't keen, at least it's different though.

[sonicbloo]

v82fas said:

Viper looks good. Gonna have to get myself up to leeds. which Saturday is the meet on?

Hi Stu, 2nd saturday of the month. Try to get there around 5.30 if you can.

i should be there on July 11th if you can make it

[Viper]

your plate looks huge, it must deflect a lot of air away from the engine

looks like you have used the rubber 'clothes pegs'
here's how we did ours using the same pegs

Edited by Viper on Tuesday 23 June 15:10

[sonicbloo]

Viper said:

your plate looks huge, it must deflect a lot of air away from the engine

looks like you have used the rubber 'clothes pegs'

Yeh, it's the rubber pegs I got from JonB at PartsRack.

Must admit I was disappointed, as they were ordered specifically for a gen 3/4, but the hood latch prevents them from being closer together and fitting a smaller plate.

Did you cut yours down, or is it possible to move the hood latch? One of the jobs on my 'to-do' list is to fit a smaller plate, although I much prefer the number plate delete option

[sssammm]

I used a 12" x 3" plate with mine, fits perfectly

[Viper]

we cut the pegs down with a hacksaw, then countersink screwed them to stainless plate to make it more rigid, velcro all over the stainless plate for the number plate to stick, so no then visible fixings

finally painted the rubber bits white to help hide them, number plate was 300mm wide x110mm high with 75mm high letters/number

[ViperDave]

Viper said:

finally painted the rubber bits white to help hide them,

yeah, took me ages to get all that white paint off so they were black to help hide them He did do a good job on the metal plate though

[Viper]

hope you kept those white paint scrapings as ill need to put them back on to match the white stripes once your ACR is in my garage

I mean a viper without stripes

[sonicbloo]

Thanks for the info, I'll have a go at cutting them down and fitting them on the inside of the latch.

Painting white is also a good plan

Any one else got any pics of their Vipers wearing neat front plates?

[ViperDave]

Viper said:

hope you kept those white paint scrapings as ill need to put them back on to match the white stripes once your ACR is in my garage

I mean a viper without stripes

if it gets stripes in my time they will be black to match the license plate bracket

[Zeds]

front numberplate?

[fatboy18]

Zeds said:

front numberplate?

What's a Front Numberplate?

[sssammm]

my clip on front numberplate fits perfectly in my passengers footwell

[sonicbloo]

I spent a couple of evenings modifying the right hand side 'clothes peg' attacking it with a hacksaw, and a dremel attachment to smooth the saw marks, then painted them both white. I used a piece of perspex (countersunk screwed) to make it all rigid, before using sticky tabs to attach the number plate.

It's quickly removable still, and much smaller and neater - so thanks for the advice above.

[fatboy18]

Much Better

[Viper]

cool, more airflow to the rad to