Custom Car Plates

[Chew1]

Hey Guys, Some help needed, so any advice given would be appreciated. Wanting to buy and fit custom plates on my r33 gts-t s1, but realized the plates are too long to fit on the front. Plates actually measure 372mm x 132mm. What are the ways besides cutting and bending which i can use to fit them on the front? Dampers of some sort? Anyone has any pictures of their own car plates, which i can have a look at.

Thanks guys!

Edited November 12, 2011 by Chew1

[Chew1]

Hey Guys, Some help needed, so any advice given would be appreciated. Wanting to buy and fit custom plates on my r33 gts-t s1, but realized the plates are too long to fit on the front. Plates actually measure 372mm x 132mm. What are the ways besides cutting and bending which i can use to fit them on the front? Dampers of some sort? Anyone has any pictures of their own car plates, which i can have a look at.

Thanks guys~

Edited November 12, 2011 by Chew1

[GTR-N1]

Let Bunnings be your friend!

4x longer screws

8x sleeves that fit over those screws as spacers

I wouldn't worry about the rear light shining over rather than on the plate at the back.

[NISSAN GTR]

Hi mate , heres an old post of mine , hope it helps !!!I

recently got some custom plates for my R32 GTR , i tried bending the old bracket to fit this did not work , also didnt want to bend the ends or cut the ends of thenumber plate off to fit on the front as this looks untidy , i have limited mechanical knowledge and time but this is what i came up with !

Got some zenith 100 x 100, 90 degree steel brackets from bunnings hardware :Dand drilled new holes in them , so the plate would fit flush to the front bar using the three existing mounting screws .

Cut some pieces of 2mm powdercoated plate the same size as the front plate and the rear plate with a grinder. Rivetted the 2mm plate to the brackets for strength and drill holes to mount plates in corners

Remove front bracket again (undo underside screws) , paint both steel plates , Do the same job with the rear but use existing mounting bolt holes as fixing points for big rivets (works great ) drill two new holes on the bottom of rear bracket depending on what size plate you have, i went for square rear , slim front .

Finally rivet custom plate onto steel backing plates to make them harder to thieve ! paint rivets black to make good !

Edited November 12, 2011 by NISSAN GTR

[God_speed]

Wow, exceptional job Mark. Those plates weren't coming off in a hurry!

For mine, I just did the same as Terry, longer bolts with some metal spacers in between the plate and the bumper. Cut some cloth to fit and put this between the bumper and the spacers so that the paint wouldn't be damaged.