Jonesi

I made a new grille this past weekend.. Nothing fancy... I ordered the material from McMaster-Carr months ago and finally got around to making it.. It's stainless steel with the precut diameter holes painted flat black after I cut it out..

It's a stock grill with all the plastic cut out except the outer ring.. I also had to paint the brace behind the grill flat black..

It just stopped raining and it's shitty out so these are the best pics I could get..

treyster

Man, that looks pretty damn good!!

treyster

Your stock wheels look good, mine look like crap! Damn that lady from NJ

dshearon

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looks tight..... i made the same grill and was debating if i should paint it or not... but damn that looks good.... i have a really tuff gloss black paint that they use to paint parts on fire trucks and it still seems to scratch off pretty easy on the test pieces i have done... any suggestions other than sanding it really good first to keep that from happening

Jonesi

^^What type of material are you using? Just the mesh ?

Lord Helmet

Looks nice.

Smitty

... now do the lower grille and be badass.

dshearon

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Same stuff as you... i ordered it after ccannizz11 posted the site...

SG81

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looks nice and clean

mrsteve

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Looks good!

03 CLS

That looks sweet, need to get mine done.

Allout

Nice Job

What are the spec's on the material you used? Looks like hexagonal punch outs.

dshearon

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here is the stuff he used...

http://www.acura-cl.com/forums/showthread.php?t=170391

car_lost

dshearon... is your headlight fogged up?

looking good jonesi.

darrinb

i got the same one, i need to re-paint mine though, it is chipping

Allout

Looks different Same density???

RooEng

Looks good! What's on the lower inside corners on the grills under the headlights? Looks like holes for fog lights, or is that just a reflection.

Smitty

that is part of the bumper that holds in the dumbie bezels..

cmark

nice work. very clean.

dshearon

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yeah... i am planning on pulling it apart this weekend and re-sealing it....dont know what happened. it was good for a couple of weeks and the bam... condensation.

Jonesi, let me know if you ever do the bottom grill I am interested in what method you would use to get the angles correct...

Jonesi

No, they are oval not hexagonal..

Jonesi

I ordered from that site but I believe I chose something different.. I'll have to try and find a receipt for the exact material used.. I spent weeks going back and forth trying to choose something, plus I ordered it back in December so I can't remember.. I just know the sheet cost like $110..

Jonesi

I'm going to use the same method of using a cardboard cutout first, tweak that and then start cutting the metal.. Or maybe I can just duplicate Smittys

RaviNJCLs

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Looks cool.

Smitty

I told you that is not a problem.... you went M.I.A. all summer so far... Something tells me you got a girlfriend I do not know about.

dshearon

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Now all i have to do is find a way to bribe you guys into sending me a piece of cardboard with the grill traced.... wow that would save some time...

i have candy......

Jonesi

I actually took the cardboard cutout and made two pieces of wood from that to sit the metal inbetween and then cut it out on the bandsaw, then trimmed it up.. Worked beautiful..

I'll see what I can do for you..

dshearon

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you did this for the bottom as well????

this sounds a lot easier that they way a did the top grill for mine... i actually just traced the silver trim and then spent a crap load of time with some tin snips... not fun at all. the last guy that posted about doing the bottom said they got frustrated with trying to get it to fit and ended up taking the bumper off to get it right... i dont know what smitty did for the bottom grill but the ones i have seen posted look pretty damn clean..

Jonesi

Nope, I haven't attempted the bottom half yet..

ccannizz11

nice! I like the black.

zoltanh

Looks sweet, although i think it would better if you painted the chrome part of the grill to match the car color.

Jonesi

That's a good idea..!! May have to do that next..

mystikk

Nice, I was planning on doing the same black grill.

McMaster-Carr seems to be messing with me though. I checked my bank account yesterday and they did a refund on my purchase of a metal sheet.

but the next morning, the money that went to McMaster-Carr is gone from my bank account again. Maybe they've changed their minds.

And now I have less than 1.00 in my account.

Allout

I do like the look of the material you used. To me, it looks more open. That would be great if you could find the specs. I like the black look.

Time For Sleeep

Can anyone post up a DIY or something of the sort? I'm really wantin' to do this with my grille...

Jonesi. Your shit looks clean as hell man.

Jonesi

I actually work in the Quality dept at work so I'll take my calipers and check the thicknees and hole diameter and give you guys the exact specs.. I tried calling McMaster-Carr but they only have a record of orders from April on.. WTF...

Jonesi

I'll take some pics this weekend of everything I did and get you guys a DIY..