escort laser jammer on corvette

**monkeydude3602000** · 01-12-2007, 12:39 PM

Will the licens plate transciever fit on a 1993 ZR1 body corvette? Has anyone use the escort stsyem on a corvette? And where would the best place for the front transcievers be? Thanks -John

**erickonphoenix** · 01-12-2007, 01:14 PM

Tough call, I would say pull the plate blank and install here.

I believe there were not that many ZR1s built so whatever you do. Don't drill any holes in it.

My vette was easy.

**monkeydude3602000** · 01-12-2007, 01:35 PM

OK but im still wondering about the rear licens plate transciever... It looks like there might be a centimeteer of space under the licensplate.

**erickonphoenix** · 01-12-2007, 02:06 PM

I installed mine at the top of the plate using the bolts for the plate as an attachment point. The plate light shines past the transiever so the plate is still illuminated.

It looks like you can do the same. If the transiever is blocking the plate light at the top then flip the transiever upside down and install it with the bottom plate bolts.

If your ZR1 is black your going to have on He!! of a stealth mobile. You might consider VEILing the lower lights. Good luck.

**vonivogtp** · 01-12-2007, 02:08 PM

I have a zr3 and from all the info here it does nothing to jam at all on the rear of any car so i would put the 2 smaller trancievers out twords the headlights and put the rrear one in the front center of the license plate.

here is a link to the zr3 in action.

http://www.radardetector.net/viewtopic.php?t=19793

and there is a video somewhere on here that shows the rear sensor not jamming anything at all when shot from the rear

**monkeydude3602000** · 01-12-2007, 03:19 PM

The corvette is white. Will things like chrome exhaust tips be anything to worry about?

**TSi+WRX** · 01-12-2007, 05:08 PM

^ Possibly, but they're small, and they're typically not what an enforcer would use as a first-line target, so it's usually not as much of a worry.

My canisters are quite large, though, and they do peek out from the body-work, so for me, this would be more of a concern, but since they would effectively be shielded by the car itself when viewed from an elevated position (i.e. on-ramp enforcement or overpass enforcement), I don't feel quite as vulnerable, particularly as I will have both a diode (LPP) as well as LED-based (ZR3) jamming system covering my Six.

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As for your vehicle, I would definitely say that to preserve its value, you should avoid drilling holes in the body-work. However, I would be tempted to cut-away at the turn-signal/driving light housing (which can later be replaced, and parts sourced from junked vehicles) so as to allow the front two ZR3 emitter heads to be located "within" them, but with an unobstructed (i.e. no lens in front) view out.

If you run a front plate, I'd use the rear emitter head to supplement your frontal protection.

At the rear, depending on your vehicle lighting, you may or may not be able to mount using the top plate mount holes - I found that with my current vehicle, the way the rear plate light was set up made it so that my plate effectively lacked any "middle" lighting at all, and I didn't want to risk a "fix-it-ticket" or other such hassles.

Instead, I've mounted my ZR3's rear head on the LOWER plate mounting holes/screws.

If rear-on LIDAR enforcement is a big concern in your area, it's almost SOP for the more experienced guys to recommend a diode-based jammer to cover that aspect.

**Arashi666** · 01-12-2007, 06:46 PM

THe rear end of all COrvettes that ive seen are big and flat, so chrome tips will do nothing in comparison to your white paint, unfortunately

cops hardly shoot the rear, but in the case that they DO......... well 1 LED Jammer head will not do too much to stop them........... and I DO NOT advise flipping the head upside down because then you wont jam anything, cerifiably, due to the way that head is made

**TSi+WRX** · 01-12-2007, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Arashi666

... and I DO NOT advise flipping the head upside down because then you wont jam anything, cerifiably, due to the way that head is made

^ No, no, my friend, not "flipping the head upside-down."

Not at all - rather, I simply meant mounting to the bottom of the plate rather than the top.

That way, if your plate illumination lights are too close together up top, you'd avoid having that long bar of the jammer across it, limiting its output and thus drawing unwanted attention, but you'd still have the jammer on the plate.

**Arashi666** · 01-12-2007, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by TSi+WRX

Originally Posted by Arashi666

... and I DO NOT advise flipping the head upside down because then you wont jam anything, cerifiably, due to the way that head is made

^ No, no, my friend, not "flipping the head upside-down."

Not at all - rather, I simply meant mounting to the bottom of the plate rather than the top.

That way, if your plate illumination lights are too close together up top, you'd avoid having that long bar of the jammer across it, limiting its output and thus drawing unwanted attention, but you'd still have the jammer on the plate.

Oh.......... OK