Mounting Emblems

I did the laborious tape thing a while back.  Took a while but turned out great.  Link:

https://www.speedsterowners.com...acing-emblems?page=1

I think VS uses super glue on the posts.  I don't know why they don't use barrel clips as I think they would work great. Anyhow I think the pins are too short as the emblems were designed for sheet metal and not thick Fiberglas. I did look under the fender and it looked like the pins were long enough to use speed nuts.  Mike, try a local fastener store and check out barrel clips.

That Adhesive Template thing looks like a real find. To be clear: you send them your emblems? Or do you just tell them the emblem you have and they send you the adhesive & backer tape cuz they know what's what?

My Speedster emblems continue to perform flawlessly after 20,000 miles of punishment. The lettering still spells out S-p-e-e-d-s-t-e-r just the way it did when the car was new. And some people say VS doesn't deliver a quality product!

It was the '1600 Super' badge on the back that succumbed to wear. Keep in mind that '1600 Super' is two words, not one, so this badge has twice the work to do.

After about four weeks, one of the pins failed - it just plain fell off - leaving the badge hanging down at a jaunty angle that kinda tipped off anyone following me that this was a replica and not a real McCoy.

Kirk quickly sent me a replacement that I had mounted in short order and once again the usual questions resumed - 'Hey is that a real one?'

Well, for a while, anyway.

After another four weeks, the same pin broke off in the same place in exactly the same way. I was amazed at the consistency in construction from one example to another. And some people say the Chinese are absolutely lacking in quality control standards!

My solution was admittedly old school. I broke off the remaining pin (this required remarkably little force) and drilled two holes clear through the damned thing right where the pins had been. The badge is now firmly affixed with two brass screws, lock washers, and nuts.

I think they're gonna ding me for it at least two points at the next Concours d'Elegance I enter.

VS takes care of the thicker-than-metal fiberglass issue in order to mount the Porsche emblem and 1600 super script that goes below the engine lid by using a Dremel tool to remove fiberglass material to let more of the mounting pins show to be able to use the metal clips that go onto the pins that hold the emblems. 

On my car the pins kept breaking off so I ended up using gorilla glue to mount these emblems.  Looks and works great but I hope I don't ever have to remove the emblems.

@edsnova, they know what's what for more common cars and you don't have to send them your emblems.

If you have an emblem they haven't done before you need to send them your emblem or a picture with a dimension. I thought it would be more accurate if they had the actual emblem.

I think they give a discount if you send them an emblem they haven't done before so they can get it into their portfolio.

I only paid $15 for two emblems and that included priority mail for returning my emblems and templates.

Since the company and I are both in Michigan, a young woman picked up my emblems on a trip to a nearby body shop. I think she also wanted to see my car.

"I think she also wanted to see my car."

Well of course.

"I think she also wanted to see my car."

Or the silver fox that drives the car!! 

Michael McKelvey posted:

When I replaced the Speedster emblems on my front fenders the new emblems had the posts in different locations. I removed all posts except the ones on the big S. I left that one to locate the emblems.

I tried using what I think is called adhesive transfer film. You press the emblem against it and adhesive transfers from the film to the emblem. That worked for a short time but the emblems loosened and looked very messy.

I thought about using mounting tape but wasn't enthusiastic about cutting the tape around the emblem.

Then I found these guys: http://www.adhesivetemplates.com.

They laser cut the tape to fit your emblems.

The cost was very reasonable. And, in my case, they even picked up my emblems.

These adhesive template people are great.  As mentioned, $15 per template and they can also work from a scanned image, "no more holes in the car".  Now all I have to do is to find out is VS super glued the pint in place.

Thanks for your posting.

I am glad you found my post useful.  I was very happy with the product, although I haven't driven the car since mounting the emblems.

BTW, one post on the 1600/super emblem was Super Glued in place by the OLD VS crew, complete with drip on paint.  Because the adhesive mounts are so versatile I was able to completely cover the garbage so it looks great.  Fantastic product!!  Great people at the company as well.  Pardon the lousy photo.

Called about getting the “Laser Cut” adhesive from http://www.adhesivetemplates.com.,  and the price for the adhesive only now is $70.

They did it for my Speedster emblems on the front fenders.  It seems like it was only about & $15 and they picked up and delivered my emblems (they were passing by me anyway).

Was the $70 for more emblems than my 2?

Hey Michael. It was $70 for one adhesive laser cut Porsche emblem sticker.

Porsche pricing now in full effect.

its called the Porsche "tax"

@barncobob posted:

its called the Porsche "tax"

I just call it the "P" tax.