Jakeys R36

[Jakeys]

Gonna need to actually make a member's ride thread pretty soon!

Already helped a mate move a bar fridge, slept in the back, and took all my bottles and cans to the depot in it. Wagons are wicked. It's also not slow, I got an opportunity finally to safely use launch control, and using a camera for measurement, clocked the 0-100 at 5.5 seconds pretty much on the dot. A lot better than the conservative 5.8 figure, just 0.1 shy of someone on Youtube. I'll take that.


On the mods, I'm still waiting on a LED projector reverse light and I need to buy some Philips BlueVision globes for the cornering/bend lighting, but in the mean time I have almost finished the Euro plates. I've ordered the SA state lettering in the proper Euro plate font to hopefully apply this weekend, but for now I've drilled and test mounted the front plate. I love it.





The rear is tricky as the dealer who delivered this car to the first owner completely botched both the front and rear plate holes. The front was easy because I can redrill the plastic with no dramas, the rear is less simple because I unfortunately need to drill the tailgate which is not something you want to do quickly and easily, and it's also completely permanent. The current holes are a solid 5+mm different in height, which makes a big difference when the plate is so wide, it looks completely awful as one edge is almost touching the top of the tailgate where the lights mount. So the plan is to carefully drill new holes just next to the old holes, rather than out at the edges as I did with the front. If a dealer had done that to me, I'd be wanting a new tailgate, they did an abysmally lazy job.

[tigger73]

How about just making the hole a slot instead? That way you have some wiggle room for adjustment.


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[Felixrising]

Isn't there a couple of proper holes there already? I guess their positioning is right in the middle of the plate though... I just drilled holes in the plate, I guess not the most elegant of solutions.

[4paw]

Hi Jakeys
you need to get some "Lakin" plate adapters these are made to fit the original factory holes and let you bolt on what ever size plate you want, I fit them to all my cars and they are brilliant !

Here's a link: https://www.lakinplates.com.au/

4paw

[Felixrising]

Wow, those things are expensive! But look like they do the job well.

[Jakeys]

How about just making the hole a slot instead? That way you have some wiggle room for adjustment.


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Yeah that could work too.

Isn't there a couple of proper holes there already? I guess their positioning is right in the middle of the plate though... I just drilled holes in the plate, I guess not the most elegant of solutions.

Those are quite large, more bolt sized, and they would be sitting in amongst the letters. I can't drill holes in the plate only because one would be halfway in an embossed letter to make the other work.

Hi Jakeys
you need to get some "Lakin" plate adapters these are made to fit the original factory holes and let you bolt on what ever size plate you want, I fit them to all my cars and they are brilliant !

Here's a link: https://www.lakinplates.com.au/

4paw

Not sure how well these would work in my situation as you would then have the adapter bolted to the two large factory holes right in the middle of the plate, the plate will end up spaced away from the body by as much as whatever bolt you can find, as the gauge on the factory holes is sizeable. I understand them for the front, I don't see how they are useful for the rear.

[4paw]

The lakin plate supplied sits about 3mm off the rear tail gate & has clear buffers on the back to protect your paint, the bolts that hold the lakin plate onto the car are recessed into the plate (so finish flush and don't interfere with your number plate)
The number plate is then bolted onto the lakin plate with the nuts already fitted into the lakin plate so they don't stick out the back and potently scratch the paint (the lakin plate is 3mm thick)

All bolts / screws needed are supplied with the lakin plate (even the ones you need to fit the factory holes)

hope the above makes sense ?, yes they do cost a bit, but are very well made and fit straight on, sorry I can't post some pic's of it as I've sold my R36 earlier this year

4paw

[Jakeys]

Nah that does sound pretty good. I'll look into it then. If the car were new I'd go that way no question, unfortunately the idiot dealer has already botched the tailgate (Behind the standard VIC slim plate where you can't see) so it won't do much harm and allows me to choose where I want to drill the plate to work with where the letters are.

[Timlin]

I use industrial velcro - this stuff does not come off. 3M Genuine Dual Lock Reclosable Tape SJ3550 Stronger Than Velcro 200mmx25mm | eBay

Its been holding my rear plates on for 18 months now - in snow, heat, rain etc...


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[Jakeys]

How do you get it off the paint if you decide you don't need it/sell it?