Any shop recommendations of where to install P badges and "PORSCHE" scriptures to the front hood and dash? Near Los Angeles CA
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Any shop recommendations of where to install P badges and "PORSCHE" scriptures to the front hood and dash? Near Los Angeles CA
Thanks
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If you don't want to drill holes in the body the emblems/scripts can be installed using 3M double stick tape. Somewhere on this site the measurements for the locations of the emblems/scripts can be found with some searching. I don't know where they are listed exactly or I would link them for you.
If you want them installed with the pins I would locate a body shop near you and they should be able to help with the installation.
Or, if you're adventurous, you can give it a go yourself.
You probably are not going to find a shop to do that. The big P company will hit them with a bag-of-lawyers.
For everyone, if you know of some place that will charge money to do this. Please contact @beemerb0y privately. Because of liability, I will have to remove any recommendations posted here.
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-=theron
Install them yourself.....you can, do it.
With the pins and drilling holes - the only difficult one is the script on the nose. Those holes have to match the pins. Rear and sides are easy once you conquer fear of drilling fiberglass.
When you bend the front P script matching the radius of the nose, the pin holes are difficult to place because as you press the script pins into nose the pin angles change. The quick fix is cut off and smooth all but the center pin ( only a single hole to drill) then 3M emblem tape to attach the script to the body.
I have found that I had to drill a counter bore in the holes from the inside. The fiber glass was so thick that the pins were barely sticking through on the inside and I couldn't get the tinnerman nuts on far enough to stay on. I drilled the holes and then used a machinist's counter bore bit with a pilot pin the same size as the hole. You can make the holes large enough to allow the pins to go into the holes after bending the script to the contour needed. The tricky part is not drilling the counterbores too deep or clear through. I used a drill-stop bushing to limit the depth. These are available from wood working stores like Rockler. All they are is steel bushing with a set screw in them. The counterbore reamers with adjustable pilots are available from Grizzly. They come as a set and are not expensive.
If you have a lathe, or a friend with one, you can make a custom counterbore reamer fairly easy out of drill rod that includes the pilot, cutter and depth limit flange. Once you have the profile, then using a thin cut-off disc in a hand grinder, cut the flutes in for the cutting edges. These don't have to be perfect because it's only fiber glass that is being cut. Once that's done, heat it up with a torch to cheery red and dip in water.......Bruce
PS. I trimmed the tinnerman nuts to make them a little shorter so they would fit in the counterbores.
I just put a dab of silicon (or super glue) in each hole and didn't use the nuts.
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