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Old Apr 15, 2018 | 02:07 PM
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Mini facelift

New oem bumper, EndlessRPM shark mouth grille, hid foglights


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Old Apr 15, 2018 | 02:42 PM
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Missing the pics
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Old Apr 15, 2018 | 02:49 PM
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Missing the pics
the picture is working for me, I’ll try to upload it again.
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Old Apr 15, 2018 | 02:52 PM
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Old Apr 15, 2018 | 03:11 PM
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maybe its just the angle, but that grill looks much larger than stock
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Old Apr 15, 2018 | 05:12 PM
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I saw the pic right after he posted it.
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Old Apr 15, 2018 | 05:21 PM
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maybe its just the angle, but that grill looks much larger than stock
the grille is the same size, it probably just looks bigger because the chrome piece gets deleted and it’s one solid piece.
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Old Apr 15, 2018 | 07:53 PM
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something must be going on with acurazine...
This morning I was at home when I was viewing this thread and nothing showed up.
I also posted a picture this morning in a thread and it showed up fine for me but not this guy:



right now I'm currently on school campus and it's the other way around now: I can't see my picture I posted (hence screenshot above), but now I see the pictures in this thread.

anywho, back to the topic, looks nice and clean! I wonder when I get back home if i'm going to be able to see it

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Old Apr 15, 2018 | 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by guitarplayer16
something must be going on with acurazine...
This morning I was at home when I was viewing this thread and nothing showed up.
I also posted a picture this morning in a thread and it showed up fine for me but not this guy:



right now I'm currently on school campus and it's the other way around now: I can't see my picture I posted (hence screenshot above), but now I see the pictures in this thread.

anywho, back to the topic, looks nice and clean! I wonder when I get back home if i'm going to be able to see it
I can't see any of the pictures you are posting.
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Old Apr 15, 2018 | 08:17 PM
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funny business going on here, I think it's acurazine's image uploading service. anyways I will not clutter this thread up.
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Old Apr 16, 2018 | 01:31 AM
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Nice! How does your bumper match to the body color?
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Old Apr 16, 2018 | 07:34 AM
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Nice! How does your bumper match to the body color?
matches pretty well. this 3 stage white diamond pearl is a pain in the dick to get to match absolutely perfect without blending into the next panel
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Old Apr 16, 2018 | 08:18 PM
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Looks good!
But that missing bumper plug tho..
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Old Apr 16, 2018 | 08:58 PM
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Looks good!
But that missing bumper plug tho..
I knowww lol I gotta get it from my old bumper that I originally dropped off to get soda blasted, I haven’t had time to go pick it up
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Old Apr 19, 2018 | 09:58 PM
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It looks great. Nice work! I'm actually purchasing and EndlessRPM shark mouth grill in the next day or so. I purchased some glossy black vinyl today, but I'm Just waiting for Bruce to respond to my latest email. Did you do any additional sanding on the primed grill or did you just go ahead and wrap as is? I"m assuming this was wrapped? I know that there is some additional work to be done if you're going to paint it, but I'm just curious how the vinyl wrapping looks on this grill up close. Do you have any close ups you can share?

I was on the fence between the CF shark mouth grill or the original. The CF looked a tad too grey for my liking.
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Old Apr 20, 2018 | 08:48 AM
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It looks great. Nice work! I'm actually purchasing and EndlessRPM shark mouth grill in the next day or so. I purchased some glossy black vinyl today, but I'm Just waiting for Bruce to respond to my latest email. Did you do any additional sanding on the primed grill or did you just go ahead and wrap as is? I"m assuming this was wrapped? I know that there is some additional work to be done if you're going to paint it, but I'm just curious how the vinyl wrapping looks on this grill up close. Do you have any close ups you can share?

I was on the fence between the CF shark mouth grill or the original. The CF looked a tad too grey for my liking.
i painted mine. since its fiberglass it comes primed, so i sanded the primer and re-primed it, sanded that primer so it was super smooth and painted it with some black metallic paint i had leftover from painting a hyundai. i ended up securing the grille to the back of the bumper with small screws instead of just trusting double sided tape.
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Old Apr 20, 2018 | 08:53 AM
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the gloss black looks nice!!! usually not a fan of the sharkmouth grille, but it looks pretty cool here
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Old Apr 20, 2018 | 01:06 PM
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I agree. The gloss black does look very nice. What paint did you use?

I'm choosing to go the vinyl route to help eliminate paint chips. There have been a lot of people complaining about paint chips with shark mouth grills unless they're professionally painted with solid clear coats.

Have you considered a clear bra wrap for the grill? It might help keep your paint looking fresh.
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Old Apr 20, 2018 | 01:17 PM
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I agree. The gloss black does look very nice. What paint did you use?

I'm choosing to go the vinyl route to help eliminate paint chips. There have been a lot of people complaining about paint chips with shark mouth grills unless they're professionally painted with solid clear coats.

Have you considered a clear bra wrap for the grill? It might help keep your paint looking fresh.
if it gets chipped up too bad ill just repaint it. i put like 4 coats of clear coat on it so its pretty protected.
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Old Apr 20, 2018 | 03:03 PM
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Just added some led corner lights
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