TSX420J

What color is the oem grill painted. to me it looks darker than cgp. see im gonna paint the crome piece in the middle to match the rest of grille but dont know the color code for that piece. this is just a rig to see how it looks....simple mod too..

PixelHarmony

I thought it was black plastic

TSX420J

nope its got a metalic sparkle to it..

TSX420J

look at it in the light....

TSX420J

Well i painted it anyways the guy that matched the color got it pretty close. it needed more black in the paint but oh well what can you do ? here you go...
my 14.00 dollar mod. by the way i painted the grille myself..

jackacc

I like it

I was just thinking about doing the same thing myself for my grille (TSX is NBP)

How did you go about painting it? Did you remove the grille?

TSX420J

my friends dad has a paint shop so i have access to the guns and paints but i have to pay for the paint but it was cheap $14.00.

you remove the griile then unscrew the chrome piece then prep it to paint then after painting put on a couple coats of clear and let dry... and if you really want it to shine give it a wet sand and polish to a shine....
dont press to hard or stay in one spot and watch out for edges or you will burn the paint.

jackacc

Thanks!

Don't you have to remove the bumper to remove the grille? I never looked that hard into it.

And you are saying that the piece you painted actually seperates from the rest of the grille? Was it a pain to take it apart or is it just a few screws?


Edit: I think I see what you are saying now... the A emblem is the chrome piece you take off and you paint the rest.

TSX420J

1. open the hood.

2. revmove all the clips on the black plastic thing in front of the radiator. remember
where the two long clips go.

3. remove black plastic thing.

4. lift grille a little about a 1/4 inch right where the holes of where the clips used to
be on the top. make sure grill does not fall back into place..

5. slide your fingers through the last space at bottom of the grille using both hands and slide grille out by pulling toward you without pulling upwards. the grille should slide out easily if you are pulling to hard repeat step four.

6. now that the grille is removed turn it over and remove the screws in the middle row only. you can see now that the grille is four peices (actually five, six if you count the hood trim).

7. separate the emblem first then the chrome trim.

8. after painting and assembly remove four clips from bumper that are upside down on the part where the bottom of grille would go.

9. adjust the clips so they are ready to put in but do not seperate them completely.

10. put the two middle clips in the bumper but make sure the clip's tips barely
goes through the bumpers hole.

11. put grille in place and pop it in trying not to disturb clips from step ten.

12. stick your hand behind the grill and locate one of the clips. now support the grille with other hand and push clip in through both bumper and grille.

13. repeat step twelve on the other clip

14. get the other two clips and do sort of the same for the two other holes.

15. put the plastic thing back on and clip it and your done.

Stokeless_TSX

all ur pix look the same what part did u paint?

tony4311

Glad you posted those pictures. I've been thinking about doing the exact same thing.

tony4311

Do you have any close up pictures around the emblem?

HoRRo

Center chrome "fin".

TSX420J

yes

TSX420J

ok here are beter pics. dont rag on me about the color im going to repaint tomarrow with a darker shade of that same tone and if i still cant match the color i'll paint it CGP when i get my mugen lip soon. not really a pro yet this was my first using a real gun but ive spray painted a bunch of stuff so i kinda know what im doing, plus ive seen my friends dad do it a bunch of times.

tony4311

Thanks for the close ups, you can barely tell (from the pics) from far away that its not quite the same color. Looks good.

TSX420J

thanks if i paint it tomarrow ill post some more pics with new color.

TSX420J

this is where i got a little hint

http://www.acuraoemparts.com/delray/...no&ListAll=All

AVANT-GARDE GRAY but still have'nt found the color code not even anywhere where they sell paint or google or yahoo. i dont even know if this is a color? id real like to know what color it is.

TSX420J

Got it -NH655M- avant garde gray...

CJams

This needs to be added to the under $100 modification list. Where is that thread anyway?

joerockt

Isnt there a way to just get a can of OEM paint?

ABPTSX

Looks pretty good. I was thinking about doing this myself but also painting the chrome pieces around the grill body color. I saw it done in another thread and im thinking about bringing it to a shop and getting it done. The grill wont look as big or stick out as much.

TSX420J

i wish, but the color code that i wrote doesnt exist for some reason but thats the code the dealer gave me. so i went to the shop again and gave the color code to my friend and he put it in the computer and it didnt come up (he uses standox which is top of the line) so then we used a nh658p standard i think but, it was closest to the color he then added a little more black and in the sun it looked almost like a perfect match. now when i got home i took pictures and it looks lighter than in person. whatever at least i know it looks good in the sun..
here are the new pics.

TSX420J

CCColtsicehockey

looks good man. I did something like this temporairily before getting my euro r grill but I did it with black out tape. I only wanted it to look that way temp till I got the new grill after I sold my mugen grill.

TSX420J

thanks... thats funny because i did this as a temporary mod too, till i order a mugen grill, but i like it a lot so im going to keep it till i get bored. then im going try to rig a mugen grill with black powdercoated real woven mesh and add the same mesh to the front bottom hole as well. but thats after my mugen lip im still waiting on.

ruffellprefley

so did anyone ever get the exact paint code? now that i've seen this, i'd like to have it done (by a pro. i don't know how to paint, nor do i have the tools)

TSX420J

nh655m but it is hard to find a body shop that has the code in the books and computer. I went to several with no luck so I did my best to match it.

confusedjojo

i thought about just cgp the whole grill but i dunno if that would look good. Great mod though it looks awesome.