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Now comes one of the pain in the arse parts of the install.

The kit comes with two L brackets with a nut welded onto the back of the hole. Picture 2 shows the two brackets.

These brackets are to be put inside a factory hole (circled in red on picture one) and then a supplied bolt is run through another hole (circled in blue in picture 1) into the nut that is welded onto the back.

I'm 6'4" so the trunk of the rx-8 isn't really easy for me to manuver around in and it was a trying experiance for me to get the brackets lined up and the bolt put in them. Several times I dropped the bracket into the hole. The good news is that they are fairly easy to recover. You can stick your finger in the hole and mess around with the bracket till you can bring it back up or you can move it around and try to get it to drop out of a hole that is on the bottom of this boxed in area.

I finally had the best luck by placing the short side of the bracked in an angle vice grip and used it to hold onto the piece and get it lined up while I got the bolt started.

Pictures 3 and 4 show the L brackets installed (circled in red) and bolted in. Note that the rear (closest to the rear seats) bracket actually sits at an angle, this is by design.

I am not fully clear (as the instructions are all in Japanese so if it did say so I couldn't understand it) what these little brackets are for but I figured they were supplied for a reason so I put them in.