royalperfaz

Not too bad for 50 bucks (vs. $400+ from Ford)

royalperfaz

Hope you guys can view the attachments because I can't....

whosniffedme

Looks great, how'd you do it?

royalperfaz

Thanks! $50 sheet of mesh off Ebay, matched the original pattern just smaller. Made a hot knife out of my soldering iron slowly cut out the general shape. Cut the tabs off the original grille surround and plasti-welded them to the new mesh pops right in. Rattle canned the core support areas you could see behind it semiflat black, grille just needs a few places smoothed out a couple finishing touches. Looks pretty good I think, like the deep inset look without a bezel surround.

whosniffedme

Looks damn good, I had a similar idea with mine. Never understood why Ford gives us a grille where the majority of the honeycomb is blocked preventing airflow.

Ford-a-tude

Looks nice! I did a similar thing with mine only I used a metal mesh with smaller holes. My problem is that when I attached the mesh to the plastic frame I did not allow for any flex. After a few months the epoxied areas cracked free. I'll re-do it this winter.

What is this plasti-welding you refer to? I used two part flexible bumper epoxy to fill in any defects and attach the mesh.

07 Stang

Great job!
I want one like this;

http://www.motortrend.com/future/con.../photo_04.html

royalperfaz

Thanks! Yeah they just don't want people to see the body color core support, horns, a/c condenser, etc. Nothing a can of black spray paint can't help to conceal...

royalperfaz

I took the original mounting tabs and melted them to the new mesh with the hot knife, effectively 'welding' them on. Good idea on the epoxy I'm going to do the same eventually to sort of bondo the imperfections along the cuts and welds.

royalperfaz

Never seen one like that before that would take a while to cut out!