Need a way to get the rear license plate to fold down at the push of a button. I figured its allready got all the springs and stuff that you need. All I need is a motor and switch.
The only idea Ive got is use an idle air control from a car some how. If you could get a switch to send power and push it out all the way and push the plate down and then cut the power or something and it would fold back up.
Any crazy helpful ideas?

 

Put one of these on a lever system. Easy as pie!
http://www.firgelliauto.com/show_info.php?page_id=35

 

running from cops? just make sure the car is fast enough first lol.

 

^^^^ Agreed^^^^

Thats some funny S_ _ _.!!. Maybe he's lazy and does not want to get out of the car for gas?

 

Since the third gen plate position is difficult (Camaro and Firebird are mounted in different locations), there's no easy way to make a custom look. It sounds like all you want it for is to fold down as you go past a photo radar, I'd say you're on your own.

There's a lot of custom applications for the custom old car market. I know there's an engine vacuum operated fold down plate. When parked, the plate folds up under the car for a nice smooth custom look at the rear. When the engine is fired up, a vacuum signal from the engine is sent to the rear and unfolds the plate for display while driving. As long as the engine is running, the plate is displayed.

 

you should watch the mythbusters episode where they try to beat the speed camera

 

Door lock actuator... most have 3/4" throw. Not sure how you would mount it though.

 

How about a really long choke cable? just fab up a little linkage setup

 

LOL thanks for all the coments and ideas. The main point of it is to just be able to say I have it, that and you just never know when you might use it.
Oh and I have seen that episode, not too bad.

 

Depending on where you tap in, there's no engine vacume under WOT, so in theory, if you went with vacume it would automatically flip up when you floor it.

May prove useful o:-)

 

http://www.plateflipper.com/photos.html

this is the one i have.. with You Lose! under it

 

LOL @ anyone that believes mythbusters. :rollseyes:

This could come in use for IPASS or automated toll systems, and red light cameras. :O

 

Wouldnt it be easier to mount it to something that would slide up into the trunk? Could even have a plate put behind it (make sure its firebird or camaro tho, so cops have harder time finding you!)

 

The main reason I had this Idea was because its allready set up to fold down so you can open the hatch with the key. You could still put a plate behind it.
And the plate flipper seems like a good place to start for only 50. You have any pictures or anything of yours?

 

For the front, I wanna see another Camaro guy do this:
http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/sh...cat/500/page/1

 

mines off right now. doing some car upgrades (every thing)

the Video is down right now.. but hit the button or if you like, switch and the plate pops/flips down.. hit it a 2nd time and the plate pops/flips back up..

bolt on easy set up.. no cutting.

the link blackendbird posted shows a slick front plate set up..i like that one! (i dont run a front plate) my self but would with somthing like that.

 

That might be the coolest exterior mod to date. I had a thought for my firebird that would slide it out from under the bumper and then up. Still wouldn't be as awesome as that

 

i didnt know they even made the motorized plate flippers. Im gonna look into that one. The hide away on the front of the red iroc is awsome. Id like to find out who he is and how he did it as hes local to me. Would be awsome if it can be duplicated

 

Ratchet is the TGO member that did it 7 years ago.....https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/body...-007-cool.html

 

Too bad hes not on here anymore and by the pics he posted you cant make out anything or how it was assembled to see how it went or I would make my own

 

Only been gone for 3 months so maybe still around & just not online. PM him & ask.

 

Im gonna pm him and ask as I have a friend that is a tool maker and has access to a CNC machine so maybe he can help us out with making the pieces

 

I'd like to know about the front plate hider for our cars too, it would be funny as hell to mess with cops. I'd just ride around with it hidden and then if I get pulled over pop it out. I can imagine it officer "Do you know why I'm stoping you today son?" Me "No, why?" Officer "you have no front plate, that's a $140 ticket!" Me "I think you should look again, because it was on there this morning." Oh man that would be awesome!

 

That would work until it was an Officer with a video camera in his car who had seen your car from head on & caught it on tape with no plate & he had u-turned to pull you over. Then he could still write the ticket & it would stick in court.

 

NV/ID/WA/OR are all Fix it tickets. and if it's on the car your good.

on the car at time of Pull over/stop.

in the 20+ years i have had my 92 Z28 Never been stopped for not having a plate.. just lucky who knows

still never putting one on...Ever!

 

Be even funnier when he told you it was illegal and towed the car lol

 

There's always the dashboard-plate-in-windshield. Did that with one of my birds and got pulled over 3 times by the same cop. He genuinely did understand why I refused to drill holes in the nose on my car. Always got the same warning.

Dakota, you'll be better off not messing with cops, even though it's funny. I finally figured out that they're so used to dealing with human garbage all day that if you treat them with respect, your minor traffic infractions get met with less than stern warnings. And if you're rude to them, they remember the car. Trust me. They remember.

 

I ordered the flip plate, hopefully it works well when it gets here.

 

No matter how fast your car is, it will never outrun radio.

 

Im not trying to outrun the cops.

 

Hope you don't plan on actively using that because that can probably get you an action of police evasion in the right circumstances.. even if they're just pulling you over for a regular traffic stop.

I'd think REAL hard before using that if I were you.


Keep in mind: not having a plate, and intentionally obstructing your plates while police are profiling = two completely different issues.. hense why I say that.

 

There is vacuum under WOT, vacuum just drops momentarily when the butterfly on the carb or throttle body snap open

 

That seems like a really complicated wayto go. And then think, you would have to floor the gas every time you see a speed camera or red light camera. How would you make it flip back? I think you should do it up on a switch. I know thats how im gunna... Allegedly

 

Finally got it installed. Pretty easy install once you understand the instructions. Works great.