458 Front Cavallino Badge Removal?

Does anybody know how please? I can't immediately see a method, and obviously don't want to break it!

 

Sorry yes, I meant the chrome badge in the bumper opening. I couldn't see any screws (I'm away from my car right now so can't look) - where exactly are they please?

 

In case it helps anybody else - there are two 5mm nuts on the back of the badge. Undoing these allows the silver horse to be removed, leaving the black plastic base, which has a long cross head bolt into the front bumper.

I'm doing this by the way to mount a front number plate - I was never really happy with any other place I found, and this actually works quite well. All I needed was a longer bolt to mount the plate on to the black plastic base part of the hold badge (which acts as a convenient solid area to spread the load).

 

I did initially, and that would work fine I think, but may bend a little too much at high speeds (just guessing!). So now I've used a 10 inch wide or so piece of steel between the plate and mount, to strengthen things up more.

(I'll do a photo when I can, but the car is currently in my garage close to the wall, and I can't move it until I've finished some other jobs. Also, just noticed a typo in my post above - I meant "old badge", not "hold badge"!)

 

Not sure how much these will help, but here are pictures of the parts I mentioned.

Everything together (number plate, steel backing plate, new bolt, plastic horse mount, silver horse emblem):

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Front of plate, with new bolt (and black plastic cap - there is a separate part of this to cover the bolt head once the plate is mounted):

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Plastic mount for silver badge - this sits between the plate and bumper, with the bolt pictured above passing through the centre of it to mount to the car (you can also see the two smaller holes used to mount the silver part of the badge originally). The ultimate best solution would be if this part could be re-made (3D printed?), with the horse section replaced by a rectangular section used to back the number plate:

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Now unused silver badge, showing small bolts and 5mm nuts:

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Here are the end results. I'd still much prefer to run without a plate, but in the UK that isn't really an option (for me at least), so I think this is about the best solution. The plate itself is smaller than it should be, but hopefully still much better than no plate at all as far as the police (and petrol stations) are concerned.

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Yes.

 

Quite a few photos above? I don’t have anything else I’m afraid.