Eggman is correct, its very unlikely to hit anything. It will travel up and down with the wheel which its pretty close to. However, whenever I do remove it, I will most likely add a horizontal cut to it parallel to the ground to clean it up. If I would ever have a batch made, this would be done as would a few more things to make it more visually appealing and polished.
The angle can not be flipped up due to not being wide enough to get out and around the spring perch. Even if it did, the mounting points would be really overhung and the load distribution would not be ideal at all.
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View my fuel log 2015 Mirage DE 1.2 manual: 47.2 mpg (US) ... 20.1 km/L ... 5.0 L/100 km ... 56.7 mpg (Imp)