Lo-Pro PCB Cover

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:42 pm

So here's the prob, some bodies just need to be lowered to look right, some of us just like to slam our cars, either way, your gonna end up tossing out the PCB cover, but how do we hold our car together now? Most of us revert to tape. I reverted to tape. Funtional, but I just thought it looked sloppy, and even more so I hate the tape gooies, and all the dirt they pick up.

So I set out to find a solution. I like to make stuff out of Zip Zap packaging because they use so much extra plastic, and I hate to pollute our land fills. Anyways I've trying to work this out for a while, but I couldn't get the back tabs to work, but then tonight I had an ingenious idea, heres what you do:

Cut a piece of ZZ packaging or similar clear plastic. I like the ZZ packageing because it is several different thicknesses throughout. I used a piece of medium thick plastic from the dome.

Hold it over your chassis, trace the basic outline with a sharpie, make the 2 front tabs extra long, and make a tab in the back that fits in the middle gap in the chassis, (see pics) you want it to be snug, so it holds the back down. When you get it all cut out bend the front tabs down then forwards.

Your done.

It's that simple, and I think it looks alot cleaner than tape, but it still not quite as clean as stock.

Check it out:

Not bad huh?

Stoli · Post by **Stoli** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:48 pm

thats sweet ass Dave. I can now lower my lancer like I wanted to. The PCB in dat biatch it HIGH as a mofo

Post by **CaboWabo** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:02 am

good idea dave!

noxorc · Post by **noxorc** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 5:53 am

Excellent.....and I too am a ZipZap Case Cutter. (same reasons, thicknesses)

ziprc · Post by **ziprc** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 6:55 am

Looks like a great idea. I ditched my PCB cover a LOOONG time ago. At first I didnt know what the crap i was doing so i just left it open lolol. After a while I taped it. Then I found this stuff that is perfect for the job. Those 12" GIJoes you can find at Toysrus have these rubber bands on them to keep goggles on, guns in hands etc. But the best thing is they are super thin and clear. I just put one of those suckers on my ZZ and it works perfect. Super secure, super un-noticeable.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 9:30 am

i dono ive always used gaffers tape. it gives better clearance and is easy to take one side off and you can put it back on over and over.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 10:33 am

hogjowlz wrote:i dono ive always used gaffers tape. it gives better clearance and is easy to take one side off and you can put it back on over and over.

Does gaffers tape leave gooies behind? Because I'm still gonna be using tape on my flipped PCB dual cells, and my biggest issue with tape is the gooies, looks secondary.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 1:10 pm

very little. photographers use it because its easy to tape something up real quick and even easier to break it down. its thin and resiliant.

vanillatheostich · Post by **vanillatheostich** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 11:47 pm

the gaffers tape i use is like $20 bucks a roll, it is just like duct tape expept that the glue leaves very little residue, and the tape is cloth not plastic. oh did i forget to mention that it can handle high temps. (i used it as a stage/tech hand for church plays on 1000+ watt lights)

micromatch · Post by **micromatch** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:14 am

do my anteanna mod it gives you better range and your pcb NEEEEEEEEVer comes off till you take it off

fist open your pcb board and undo the knot in the anteanna and take your anteanna and stick it through a little gap in the back of the pcb coverlocated right above the back left corner of your heat sink
BOOM instant range and it keeps your pcb cover on be cause the only thing theat makes you pcb cover pop off is cause of you anteanna pushing it up

peace

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:17 am

That is a good tip. I already do that to all my cars. It's amazing there's 2-3 inches of antenna inside the car. Run it straight out the back, and your antenna is twice as long.

My purpose for the lo-pro PCB cover is on cars with severe body drops, where there is no room for the PCB cover.

noxorc · Post by **noxorc** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:51 am

vanillatheostich wrote:the gaffers tape i use is like $20 bucks a roll, it is just like duct tape expept that the glue leaves very little residue, and the tape is cloth not plastic. oh did i forget to mention that it can handle high temps. (i used it as a stage/tech hand for church plays on 1000+ watt lights)

Hey look everyone, Hogs got a new partner.

The Gaffer Brothers.

vanillatheostich · Post by **vanillatheostich** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:42 pm

hog how did you start on gaff tape? lol i just remebered that my wallet is made of duct tape, completly duct tape.

z-beam · Post by **z-beam** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:56 am

vanillatheostich wrote:hog how did you start on gaff tape? lol i just remebered that my wallet is made of duct tape, completly duct tape.

vanillatheostich · Post by **vanillatheostich** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 10:26 pm

I havent been here in forever. and i havent touched a bit in a long time.
anyways, there are plenty of sites to teach you how to do it. you should check out the prom dresses people do, its insane.

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