Sorry, I was aiming at @bbrock , you were just in the line of fire.

It's a perfume atomizer.......

Non-sequitur, but... I've always felt this was the wrong comparison. Isn't a perfume atomizer way more akin to a fuel injector? Since it takes a positive force to push out the fuel? (As opposed to a carb, where vacuum pressure pulls out the fuel.)

You're making too much sense man! Haven't you read Plato's allegory of the cave?

You don't see this badge placement very often but I love it! So subtle ...I've been told that the crest is special as well.
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Dangit! I'm out of the "out of the club" club. Guess it's off to the NARNARP club for me.

Now that is interesting. So, you want to remove the crest because the car did not originally come with one, but you want to remove the side markers because it did?

Ansbacher

I like the idea of no crest or even lettering. Those that are in the know, know. Those that want to learn can ask.

However, I do find some comfort in the confusion on some in having this badge

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However, it's a nice big square hood and the crest does look great nicely placed.

Be it NARP, Porsche, VW, or whatever purist form, it can't be any worse than when I go to coffee and cars and there is that 'guy' in the new Porsche that kinda looks like this

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Why is the 914 cluster running up hill?

My 71 came badged and I'm glad it did. People always wonder what kind of car it is. They see the badging and see that it is a Porsche 914. Saves me from having to go into the nuanced history of the 914. You know that the minute they get home they will Wiki it.

The badging gets me quicker back to my driving.

I've got an older Land Rover, badging all over. People still say nice jeep!

Mine has factory emblem posts and speed nuts up front. The emblem went walk about. Probably ended up hot glued to a Yugo in El Monte.

I do not understand your question? Do tell?
Thanks,
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If every one is upset about the hood crest then i wounder what they think about putting the crest from a 356 hood handle to the horn pad ???

The correct answer is way too obvious. Own two 914s. One car has a badge. The other doesn't

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Nope, not the wrong comparison. The perfume atomizer was the inspiration for the first carburetor.

It is not positive pressure, but negative pressure. A perfume atomizer passes air through a venturi drawing the perfume up from the bowl and mixing it into the passing air. (Sound familiar???).


In 1885, Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler developed a float carburetor based on the atomizer nozzle (Wikipedia Reference)

Clay

Love it! I do this mapping all the time

Probably has a lot to do with experiences as well. Had something with a hood badge, coulda been a 911 or 944 or something. Thieves mangled the paint and hood to get the badge off. This was some 25+ years ago, made me wish no P-car I owned had a badge.

My current 914 doesn't have one, won't be putting one on.

That said, they do look nice on a 914.

My '75 had a badge on it when I got it. Once I started the restoration, I filled in the holes and removed it.
It also had A/C in it and I removed that as well. (you'd be amazed and how much structural integrity was gained when I welded in the replacement piece from RD)
I'm not nuts on the subject but, I did want my car to be factory correct, if not dealership correct.
My '74 does not have one.

One thing I have noticed is that they are all Volkswagens until you go to buy parts. Then they become a Porsche!

Tom, this is a truly relevant observation

And that's the real problem. As was said earlier, the front of a 914 is a big blank canvas and the Porsche crest is probably the most beautiful hood badge there is. I don't have a badge on my car, but it would look SOooo good with one on there.

When have you gone to far?


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You wanted emotional and irrational......

Yes Sir, and we thank you for it! That second photo might be the greatest thing on the front of a car, EVER!!!

I beg to differ ...


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So what's the correct placement from the tip of the hood?

4, 6, 8 inches?

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I think we all know that answer. You’ll put it 6” and then tell her it’s 8”

You sound confused about your orientation.

Well, if anyone has a hood badge that they feel they no longer want, I'll take it off your hands... I had the frunk hood replaced about 30 yrs ago due to a minor front end hit that buckled it. The one that was installed has 2 holes about where the badge would go and I never got around to doing anything with it. So I'm the guy in the middle-no badge, but 2 unsightly holes. This thread has motivated me to change that situation...

Now first choice would have been the one in the blue (although she is probably my age now), but she probably wouldn't be happy sitting in an unheated garage all winter, and I'm pretty sure the wife wouldn't be either...

When i was 16 I was all about the badging, but being in SoCal with all the pinky lifting 911 owners I heard all the trash talk on 914's to the point where it got really old... Thankfully my ego wasn't tied to that and I actually started embracing the NARP thing even more, because I realized how much they underestimated the 914.

Fast forward to my current 914, flared, twinplug 3.8, no hood badge, no grill letters, somewhat of an enigma to the uninitiated and that's how I like it

I don't think you'll get anyone bashing for badges per say, unelss it's something garishly overdone like on the sail panels, that being said, to each their own--if it's faux pas to assume someone's gender then I'm not going to assume your 914's manufacture origin either

A real veteran of the SoCal culture wars right here fellas

YES!!!

Who needs a badge? Dirty Harry never used his. Keep it simply stock.

Haha, the Stories are way better when the runt becomes the champion.

TTOD guys at the PCA Auto-X's were always 914's and the kicker was, the guy to beat was a big 4 and not even a 6 so they could feel good about themselves.

As a schooled Philosopher, the Allegory of the Cave theme was more about form than function.

Exactly, except that adding carburetors is also off limits.
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Yeah, I'm one of those dual carb guys and I don't lose sleep at night when my car hiccups, dreading a trouble-shooting nightmare of a fifty-year-old fuel injection system.
Carbs are simple, easy to maintain, no electronics, and few moving parts.

Oh, and +1 for hood crests as long as they are placed esthetically (or is it aesthetically).

Ansbacher

Oh Sir, the allegory of the cave was actually about how people will murder you if you tell them things they don’t want to hear… so don’t murder me ok?

After thinking about this topic for a week now . . . . . . . . . I honestly have no opinion either way.
Badge or No Badge. I really don't care. Whatever gets you thru the night.

However, I have always considered the engine grill letters to be one of my favorite design details on a 914.

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*(Full disclosure: Elvira came with hood piercings and Badge jewelry.)
**(I added the nipple rings.)

You are correct @SirAndy @Van B

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