custom grill

[galantv600]

aight woman gentleman and teenagers.... i finally decided to fix my grill to make it look like the JDM grill.... cause i dont wanna spend dat much money to buy one.. just make mine! https://www.thegalantcenter.org/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif here some pics of it.... i still need to paint the parts where the lines were... and install da mesh.. here ya go guys hope yall like it..

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p6b721bddd05eded8bb811cd0d00fec50/fc371190.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p9aec57b225732b301e8fae45276be11b/fc37118e.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/pb9efb58b5dba4d8b44366bd336b061c6/fc37119e.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p6bdb89dae65018316c762b01ed8dce5a/fc371198.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p1bfe24f781e5c78f84f484a3ea26baa9/fc371195.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p2ffa23fb0c7ea22c499eb91f5dcdb362/fc371192.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p22cd51f3025bad29a1a5be9f673b1949/fc370ffc.jpg
This da mesh im using... oh yea and da pics u see dats just like an hour ago while i was workin... so i alraedy fixed all the diferent heights and stuff so now everything is smooth and is leveled...no plastic sticks out... gotta paint it still tho!!!!!

[Supernova]

Ohhhh... don't use that mesh!! Get some of the mesh from a home improvement store(maybe where you got that), that is not real wide, but it is just the right width to fit the grill. Look at the grill in my sig. These strips of gutter mesh shoulf be ready to fit on a gutter. It will look much better with this kind of mesh IMO. You still will have to do some cutting.

Lookin good other wise. :thumbsup:

[galantv600]

ye i had dat mesh in my other grille... before i ever cut it... and i have extras so i was thinkin of puttin tha black one that is exactly tha same as the chrome one just dat black... like the JDM ones... but i dunno... i was thinkin bout maybe changin and puttin da chrome one back... wat to do.... on the bottom bumper i have the chrome one too!

[Danger DANJ]

I think the black mesh would look good. It would look more like a JDM grill that way.

[Black Magic]

i just finished up my grill today and damn my hand hurt... they are all cut up.. but i think it came out ok looks pretty much like vegas mats grill i kept the grill chrome colored and used the aluminum mesh.

[redattack]

how do you take the grill off?

[galantv600]

i used a saws blade and just cut it with that... but for the black plastic on the last two chrome lines or w.e on each end, i used a drill and drilled various holes which helped it lose power and i just chipped it off from there.... and just cut it down and painted it again ill post pics when i get back home of how it came out lookin!!!

[mrjaydeeone]

nice job

[galantv600]

the final product... im thinkin of maybe paintin those black jsut to see what theyd look like... i know this is the wrong place but can someone maybe photoshop that for me....
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p958b07c3a58869d5452fbf3a378af9ad/fc32ffee.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p34223f6ae3a55382e0cfd500ac591f18/fc32ffef.jpg

[TITAN]

damn, i wish the 2002-2003 were that frekin easy!! :ironchief2:

[pinoyesv6]

here's a lil tip to make ur grille make a lil bit better. shouldn't cost u more than 10 dollars. get a hold of some chrome tape or chrome vinyl. chrome tape is available at the auto parts store. and yea cover up where u cut the bars off with the chrome tape. it doesn't look as good as if hte grille was really chromed but u only see a lil line from the tape.

[seth98esT]

Heres Eds grill...
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p03a392351000c51a4815bdec21712ec1/fc32884b.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/pa745e9a300eefff6a402e704c0f680d7/fc328844.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p0254755204b458a9021ba5a0fe8926db/fc328841.jpg

[Black Magic]

thanks seth for hosting the pics.... i need everyones opinion should i leave it chrome or should i paint it black? what do you guys think

[seth98esT]

id paint it black and get some darker mesh to go with it, that would look tight!

[Dilemma]

WHat did you use to Cut? I am considering the Dremel but i am open to other methods.

[VegasMatt]

The bars on the grill are so easy to cut, I used the saw tooth on a swiss army knife, took me about twenty minutes. Sanding the thing was the hardest part.

[Titanium2K2]

Looking good man. Keep up the good work



damn, i wish the 2002-2003 were that frekin easy!! :ironchief2:

Knightrider, how's your setup coming along?

[TITAN]

well, i didnt get a chance to do anything last week, so im still doing the bondo thing and sanding. its pretty easy with the dremel sander. i think you should invest in one! the only thing is i got to do it with a fan or something cause the shit starts flying around my nasal cavities and i got these huge bondo boogers!!! :conehead: . or maybe i can get a mask or something. it can help prevent SARS too! i wonder if Bondo is deadly when you inhale it?

anyway, probably next weekend i should be done. :thumbsup:

[Danger DANJ]

The bars on the grill are so easy to cut, I used the saw tooth on a swiss army knife, took me about twenty minutes. Sanding the thing was the hardest part.

I still can't believe that. It took me forever to cut mine out. That plastic was so friggin' tough.

[pinoyesv6]

The bars on the grill are so easy to cut, I used the saw tooth on a swiss army knife, took me about twenty minutes. Sanding the thing was the hardest part.

I still can't believe that. It took me forever to cut mine out. That plastic was so friggin' tough.

vegasmatt, what kinda grille did u ahve? did u have an oem grille from mitsu or an aftermarket oem style grille from who knows where? the materials might be different from oem.

but yea i have a saw tooth on my gerber multipliers and yea it can cut thru glass so plastic shouldn't be a problem.