Posted on 26/09/2020
After replacing the sump as I showed above, the car was perfect driving around with no issues what so ever. So I decided it was time to clean her up a bit, did a semi decent polish by hand over the car, I didn't want to go too crazy incase the resprayed white decides to come off. One thing that has annoyed me is there are no badges on the car, so I decided to put the front & rear H badge on and stole the SiR badge from my other EF9 tailgate.
I took measurements for the SiR badge however I had none for the H badges, so my mate Tony showed me an "old trick" they use in panel beating where before removing the badge off a car (in this case I used my civic track car as the template base), you use masking tape and tape around the badge, along with some panel line on that panel to guide yourself off which you can see is done for the front H badge. Then you lay the masking tape template onto the car and there you go. For the SiR badge we used the measurements I took before removing it along with some photos off google.
Another helpful day from the team engineer:
And heres some more entertainment/misery with the bumper brackets.. One incorrect bolt that isn't even doing anything, and another one which was too long so they added a nut to space it out..
Guessing this extra hanger on the drivers side at the rear was added back in Japan, they are known for doing drivers side exhaust exits on the EF9s.