This is a picture tutorial about changing your fender badges. It includes measurements of the mounting holes in the s197 fenders, which I haven't found anywhere else. I know this is a basic task, but hopefully this information which is from several threadswill be of help to someone. Note: thereare many other methods, feel free to chime in.
The first thing to do is to get your stuff together: besides the badges, you need
1) painters masking tape
2) sticky out (or some other citrus-safe goo remover)
3) WAXED dental floss
4) alcohol pads
5) cotton rag
Frame the present badge with tape for reference later. (I find this a LOT easier than measuring.) Then, use the dental floss trick to take the badge off. This takes a certain knack to do. Be patient and experiment. Some people use a hair dryer, but I don't feel comfortable doing that.
This photo shows the famous fender holes that everyone asks about
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Here is a crude diagram I made of the dimensions of these holes, in case you want to know if your new emblem will cover them. (Horizontal and Verticle measurements are from hole center to center):
Here are the emblems removed, showing the mounting prongs.Note that the left and right fenders have identical, NOTmirror-image hole patterns.
If you are careful when you remove the stock badges, you can re-use them because no harm will come to them.
After cleaning the fender with the goo-gone, then alcohol, then drying with the rag. The badges are put on using the tape as reference. This badge has an irregular shape, so I lined up the bottom of the numbers with the top edge of the lower tape.
Here's the new badge on the car. I think it better fits my understated, spoiler-deletecar than the stock "GT" does, but I'm still looking for a "281" with the checkered flags.
Hope this was helpful, or at least enjoyable!
Sleeper2