Reg plates with holes for air flow

[adam248]

I am sure i have seen these about somewhere my mate with a leon cupra wants one.

They have like 4 big holes in them to allow air flow, but look solid must be some sort of mesh or something?

I am not sure if I have just dreamed these up.

Anybody got any ideas?

 

[plymcl172]

Well I dont think the clio would need it

and a hole in your number plate will get the rozzers talking !

 

[adam248]

Not for the clio for my mates cupra.

And you cant see the holes due to like a mesh over the top.

 

[Dan@M.A.D]

Isnt this usually on track cars? Im pretty sure they are just cut out holes in the bumper rather than the numberplate.

 

[Neat]

I saw a feature in a car mag. a while back, on a massively modified RS4 (something like 800bhp). So desperate to get enough cooling to the engine - all the characters of the registration plate were cut out, obviously still looked black as there was simply nothing there, just looking through to the darkness of the engine bay.

Be it one of these, or the knida thing your mate is after - can't imagine they'd be legal, but novel.

 

[JCC]

Why?

Surely the only time you'd need the holes there would be on track, when you could just take the plates off?

 

[Gaz.]

Depends how much power you have. More power = more heat = increased need for air flow.

 

[stephen chadwick]

theres also a turbod type r on track culture with this done. (letters cut out )

 

[adam248]

Im not sure really lol I seem to recall 4 big holes to allow air flow to the intercooler (I must have been pi**ed lol)

And his cupra is about 280bhp and he wants to uprate the intercooler so I told him about these plates I thought I had seen just thought they were a good idea.


The letters cut out does sound a fairly good idea alot of work though.

 

[Ben]

That what you mean?

 

[adam248]

No they in the plate itself.

 

[Daniel]

Buy a normal plate, take it to a local CNC place, get them to machine out the numbers and letters.

Fit plate.

Bobs your monkhouse.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Legal sticker plate on the bonnet... Job done.

 

[Jay.S]

Legal sticker plate on the bonnet... Job done.

Then get a hole saw and go mental.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Yeah, then install some speed holes.

Saw it on The Simpsons once.

 

[Inferno]

Legal sticker plate on the bonnet... Job done.

I'm not sure they are strictly legal though, tolerated on some cars yes, but legal, no. I've got a couple, but couldn't buy any that adhered to the British standards for registration plates - that is to say, no post code, no BS number.

 

[Spee]

Drill your holes in the bumper behind the plate and use spacers behind the plate to hold it off the bumper. Seen this done on a fair few cars (usually turbos!)

 

[Neat]

Just googled 'cut out number plates' - http://audisrs.com/archive/cut-out-number-plates__o_t__t_25485.html

Bit extreme for 280bhp? And what have owners of other similarly modded Leon Cupras done?

 

[Carl-Tracked172]

That looks spot on, From the above link,

 

[Neat]

I do kinda like em, clever. The stencil type sections that have to be left in place to hold the middle bits into the '9' and '6' could do with black tape/vinyl wrapped right round to make them properly black. And it would take a fairly pedantic officer of the law to pull you for it, although if you got pulled over for something else..... And a fair bit of effort for not a lot of extra airflow.