I plan to start by finding the emblem centre line, to achieve this a run of masking tape will be laid from the bonnet screw running parallel to the bonnet's trailing shut line.

To find the horizontal line and emblem height, a run of masking tape will be laid along the top edge of the bonnet louvers all the way to the bonnet's trailing edge shut line, a second shorter run of masking tape will then be run beneath it to bring the final mounted height of the emblem one tape width lower than the top edge of the louvers.

The rest is just measuring the emblem length and halving that measurement then coming out and marking that distance from my emblem centre line, and either side of the centre line.

Like this....

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Ultimately the science and geometry is all well and good but as anyone who's fitted a shelf in an old beamed cottage will tell you, it's less about what the spirit level tells you, its more about what your eye refences around the shelf. If there's a beam in the room close by that's not straight and level, which they never are, your eye is drawn to that as your reference of level, your brain then tells you your shelf is now on the cock even though you fitted it spirit level true.

The secret is to use the tape lines as described and shown above, trial fit with a tiny amount of mounting tape, remove the masked lines and stand well back to see if it all looks right to the eye or not? Due to the paralax effect perfect will vary from person to person, what looks right to the six footer will look wrong to someone 5ft tall as their viewing from different heights.

Alternatively, I might simply have a few glasses of wine and just slap the damn things on rofl

Last edited by Montegue; 13/09/22 08:13 PM.