Devolv
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- Joined
- Jun 26, 2005
- Location
- Toronto, ON
Here's what I did yesterday, was bored so I decided to work on the extra grille I had.
Wasn't ready to fork out $100+ on a 940/960 Turbo Grille and they aren't readily available on local yards. So decided to construct my own with a silver grille from a 940/960 which looked really lame and grampa-ish. I wanted sporty black mesh look, but somewhat stock feel to it. So I went to home depot and bought the $21.99 metal diamond pattern mesh, which is quite heavy duty.
Then I knocked out the cheezy plastic chrome grille and kept the frame and the emblem.
Painted the Home Depot mesh and cutted it to fit the frame. Painted the mesh with flat black Rustoleum rattle paint. Drilled a few holes at the bottom and top of the grille frame for Zip tieing LOL Then used a few zipties to secure into place. Then I masked off the frame as I thought the original trim was way too thick, and painted the outside black.
Then used double sided 3M tape with added some soft plastic pieces to secure the emblem onto the mesh.
I think it turned out pretty good considering the materials and time. Took about 2 hours to do, wasn't too bad.
Let me know what you guys think! Will take pictures of the grille on a non-rainy day. If you see green twist ties ignore them! Ran out of black zip ties yesterday..
I also need to work on the fitting, it's not as close as I want the grille (you can see a gap to the light on one of the pictures), so I 'll need to fix that..
Wasn't ready to fork out $100+ on a 940/960 Turbo Grille and they aren't readily available on local yards. So decided to construct my own with a silver grille from a 940/960 which looked really lame and grampa-ish. I wanted sporty black mesh look, but somewhat stock feel to it. So I went to home depot and bought the $21.99 metal diamond pattern mesh, which is quite heavy duty.
Then I knocked out the cheezy plastic chrome grille and kept the frame and the emblem.
Painted the Home Depot mesh and cutted it to fit the frame. Painted the mesh with flat black Rustoleum rattle paint. Drilled a few holes at the bottom and top of the grille frame for Zip tieing LOL Then used a few zipties to secure into place. Then I masked off the frame as I thought the original trim was way too thick, and painted the outside black.
Then used double sided 3M tape with added some soft plastic pieces to secure the emblem onto the mesh.
I think it turned out pretty good considering the materials and time. Took about 2 hours to do, wasn't too bad.
Let me know what you guys think! Will take pictures of the grille on a non-rainy day. If you see green twist ties ignore them! Ran out of black zip ties yesterday..
I also need to work on the fitting, it's not as close as I want the grille (you can see a gap to the light on one of the pictures), so I 'll need to fix that..
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