the hamburger on the engine cover can come off in about 90 seconds. unbolt the 2 bolts on the front half of the cover, flip it over and bend back the 4 tabs holding it in place and it comes right off.

wow havent had a chance to read the entire thread but count me in if you make anything even remotely close to that!!!

yah, or maybe it can be a 2 piece unit. front piece with the aluminum Z logo, back piece with just the background (black or CF pattern), screw them together, then mount onto the car with sticky tape... :confused:

otherwise it's going to look like a silver burger with a faint Z on there. :ugh2:

http://www.the370z.com/members/scruf...comparison.jpg

This is the carbon Fiber look. I've also lower the tabs...what do you guys think? I'm afraid that it may be too thin as the new thinkness is only 1mm. This definitely emphasizes the oval shape and takes away the wings (tabs) look. I think it's almost pointless to have the wings to the edges.

But then again, it'd look weird either way with or without tabs because without the tabs you'll have 2 empty holes.

Let's replace the lower tab code name to ZF-2A & ZR-2A:
http://www.the370z.com/members/scruf...m-design-4.jpg

and the super low tab code name to ZF-4A & ZR-4A:
http://www.the370z.com/members/scruf...comparison.jpg
in case people are interested....unless, we're all in favor to the latest modification, (super low tab) then I can send over this revised model as well. (For both the Front & Rear). As for now, I think we should try to make it with a flat surface so we can paint it or whatever...these above examples are only for visual as to how it could look (i.e. Carbon Fiber, textured).

most definitely the CF version for me. :p

Super low 2R-4A is fantastic. As well, having the flat surfaced tabs will give us the opportunity to finally get rid of the burger look.

If the carbon fibre backed badge ends up looking like the side markers, that would be awesome!

and almost impossible for a thief to steal the emblem unless they have a screw driver...

The textured design looks great on the model, but would be near impossible to machine in one piece, a better approach would be to make ZF-2A-O with the "floating Z" and attach a separate piece of CF or knurled aluminum to the back of the emblem. I don't know jack about CF so I most likely would not be able to provide this piece . I think painting/powder coating the emblem two colors (silver & black?) will provide plenty of contrast.

which brings us the the next point in the design. Finish. I would think powder coating would be the best looking and most durable choice, however I do not know if it is possible to powder coat something in two different colors. Any one with experience in this field please offer your advice. Also any powder coaters/painters/platers in the Bay Area looking for some work feel free to quote me a price (2,10,100) and/or post some examples of your work.

Wow we have lots of designs now, but we'll have to agree on just ONE (front and rear) for the time being. I want to make all the popular styles and please all the people following this thread, but realistically I'm afraid that wont happen. It's a lot of work to make these badges, and the window of opportunity for me to get these parts on to a machine is very small, you see its like this....

I do not own the machine shop that these parts will be produced in, but I have been working there for 8 years. The owner is a very good friend of mine and allows me to use the equipment for my own projects from time to time. So... obviously these badges will take a back seat to the day-to-day business of the shop. The owner does not give a sh!t about 370z badges with the new style Z, at least not yet.

This project will not be allowed to disrupt or interfere with the normal flow of the shop in anyway. What that means is basically this:

There are 21 CNC machines in our shop. Only 4 of them meet the criteria required to produce these parts. ( ball nose milling is a PITA) The only time I can use these machines would be from Saturday afternoon until Monday morning 6 am. Since this project can not interferer with the shop's business, I must wait until one of these machines has finished a production run on a Friday/Saturday and would otherwise sit empty over the weekend. I can NOT "tear down" a production set-up, make my parts, and then replace the original set up before the shop re-opens on Monday. Thus I must wait until the perfect opportunity arises. When will that be? I don't know, not too long, but If I were going to make 4 or 5 different styles it would probably take months of waiting.

That said I vote for ZF-2A, and ZR-2A.

I'd like to see the front part of the emblem in a gunmetal finish with a black powder coated background.

Interesting... maybe we could electro-plate the whole badge, then powder coat just the black area.

I don't know if the heat from the powder coating would mess up the plating though. I'll have to research.

Hey Ag, I think it's really great you're putting in all this time an effort into your off hours. Now that we know your situation and available time, I say let's not get bogged down in the details.
Fact is, when you open the forum to ideas, it's going to be pretty much endless.
All the designs you and scruffy have come up with are a hundred times better than looking at that plastic burger.
Now we're getting into C.F., and powder coating, sheeit man, show me billet metal, and I can fine tune it myself!
For my 2 cents, I'm happy with pretty much whatever works best with your equipment, and is cost effective.
Kudos to both you guys!!

Agreed!