Warchild
12-18-2007, 01:02 AM
This is a piece of cake, and takes just minutes to do.
First, remove those gay-ass red reflectors off the rear of your Busa. Take the reflector brackets themselves, and affix them to the two rearmost bolt holes (where your stock rear fender used to reside!) :oh yeah: Use the same phillips-head fasteners that were retaining the brackets in these bolts holes, not the shouldered hex-head bolts the fender was using.
Like this:
http://www.heavybus.com/busa/images/photos/LicensePlate/rearReflectorBrackets.jpg
While it looks encouraging at first, it is quickly apparent that the existing holes aren't going to line up for the typical North American license plate. :head meets wall:
http://www.heavybus.com/busa/images/photos/LicensePlate/HoleLineup.jpg
No worries... just place your plate up there, and use a permanent marker to mark where you need to drill two holes, and drill away.
Volia! Instant fender eliminator license plate bracket! :thumbs up:
http://www.heavybus.com/busa/images/photos/LicensePlate/installed.jpg
All this for just a few minutes of drilling! :smoke:
You will find that you want to bend the brackets "upward" so that the plate sits at an angle, vice perpendicular to the ground.
For those of you worrying about The Man hassling your for a license plate light.... you can score yourself some LED light license-plate bolts, and use the original 2-wire connector for the stock license plate light to power them.
First, remove those gay-ass red reflectors off the rear of your Busa. Take the reflector brackets themselves, and affix them to the two rearmost bolt holes (where your stock rear fender used to reside!) :oh yeah: Use the same phillips-head fasteners that were retaining the brackets in these bolts holes, not the shouldered hex-head bolts the fender was using.
Like this:
http://www.heavybus.com/busa/images/photos/LicensePlate/rearReflectorBrackets.jpg
While it looks encouraging at first, it is quickly apparent that the existing holes aren't going to line up for the typical North American license plate. :head meets wall:
http://www.heavybus.com/busa/images/photos/LicensePlate/HoleLineup.jpg
No worries... just place your plate up there, and use a permanent marker to mark where you need to drill two holes, and drill away.
Volia! Instant fender eliminator license plate bracket! :thumbs up:
http://www.heavybus.com/busa/images/photos/LicensePlate/installed.jpg
All this for just a few minutes of drilling! :smoke:
You will find that you want to bend the brackets "upward" so that the plate sits at an angle, vice perpendicular to the ground.
For those of you worrying about The Man hassling your for a license plate light.... you can score yourself some LED light license-plate bolts, and use the original 2-wire connector for the stock license plate light to power them.