Badge location, Add Porsche badge to front hood Options

[vanslyke]

I have installed a 3.0L SC engine in my 914 and I want to add a Porsche badge to the front hood. How far up from the front edge of the hood do I mount the badge, understanding the obvious that is must be centered as well?

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Your 914? Do what you like.

There are various viewpoints on this, and the originality viewpoint is simple: If it didn't come with the badge, if shouldn't have one. However, to my eye the 914's nose looks too plain with no badging—and it sure looks like Porsche would have been happy to put its crest on the 914, a car it designed and engineered. And Porsche did put its crest on U.S. steering wheels, along with its logo across the engine lid.

A hood crest was added to my car in the 1980s, long before I got it, and looks "right" in its placement (very similar to Ferry Porsche's silver 914S pictured above). So a crest has remained on my hood, in part because the 1980s crest was a gift to my older brother and he placed it on the car, and in part because I think the nose of the car looks better with something there. I did, however, remove both the engine grille letters and the PORSCHE reflector someone added way back when…and eventually added the European 914-VW-Porsche badge because the back of the car needed something, too.

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