Here she be.....


heres how i did it... Basically i took the grille off the car....unscrewed everything etc. and had it down to just the black plastic. then i decided hmm how am i goign to cut this?? and then i tried these big clippers but the plastic was too strong. So i decided to heat thigns up alittle..........the pictures can explain..







First i was trying to use a big seraded blade to cut through the melted plastic, it worked okay, but then i borught my heavy duty kitchen shears and they cut the the plastic much easier, and more accurate.




I'd have to say the hardest thing was fitting the chrome trim back over the mesh.

 

lookin good

 

Looks damn good..!! You should've invested in a heat gun...

 

what kind of mesh did you use for that?

 

looking good!

 

i can't believe you burned it out of there.


nice job.


now paint that grille surround black.

 

some crap i picke dup at the hardware store, i painted it black. i hope it wont rust!!

 

looks dope, i like that heat method,

 

I should've done that.......

 

Note to self: Buy a new Dremel.

 

Note to self: breathing fumes from burning plastic is baaayaad....very baaayaad...um cay

 

 

 

you should see what my white pants look like. covered in blac ash and crap. no biggie, they were too small anyways

 

Nice mod.

 

 

damn that looks sick man, im gonna make an attempt at a black grill for a 1st gen pretty soon ;=\

btw gingerbread, what kinda paint you use man i think im gonna try to go buy stuff for it today.

 

flat black rustoleum

 

Wow, the environment just got pwned by A-CL.

 

sweet thanks man i gotta look into doin my grill ;\

 

that's the most inventive, awesome, dyi mod ever. better than those garden liner lips ppl put on their honduh's.

 

thanks, i think i got about 7 HP out of it

 

.... dude U are lucky you did not burn the whole grille up......

all you needed was a blade from a hack-saw and alittle time....

 

lmao nice method

 

its probably not too late... u def should fix that Red... it would look way better

 

Looks good. Real inventive with the burning.

I would have been saying to myself through all this...."OK, now just don't fuck this up!"

 

That looks hella sweet. Nice job.

I wonder if Ron uses the same burn method for his grills?

 

I think you are definately the only person in the world that has ever set their grill on fire to make a custom grill. Looks good though .. I would definately paint the chrome trim black

 

PLEASE, i know what i'm doing, i only let it burn for a few seconds n a spot then i would cut it, then burn alittle more, vut some more, and so on.
i liek the chrome trim, matches the headlights, door handles etc......mayeb if i had 03 headlights i would

 

I'm glad it worked for you but I don't think I've ever seen anyone mod a part of their car by lighting it on fire! Certainly not plastic parts anyways.

 

that's an unusual technique!

 

nice, same grill as mine!!

 

That's what you call a non-reversible mod

 

ahhhhhhhh a cl part on fire, that was a lil hard for me to take j/k......to the burnt away pieces of the front grille-----> :smitty:

 

if u want u can come over one day i can paint the trim for u if u want it painted

 

no thanks evil one

 

I like the chrome with the black. How did you get the mesh and chrome surround to work?

 

what do you mean???

 

i gotta good question.. where did you get that mesh? i went to home depot close to the place i workout @, and damn could not find a single thing... the people who worked there were clueless too.. suggestions?

 

i just went to the local hardware city, up the street from my house. i think some people were also buying stuff online...try looking arroudn i dont know