Did you change your grille?
11-28-2012, 08:30 AM
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You show off! That's what I wanted in the first place but I couldn't find one. I didn't have the energy to start scouring craigslist for a used one. I am going to get the Agent 47 lower though. I was almost done with a my custom matching lower when my wife ran it over backing out of the garage. That will teach me to clean up my toys in the future.
11-30-2012, 02:07 AM
#24
your grille looks great Ford-a-tude.
i would love to do something similar, but instead of mesh, use a billet grille and recess it as far back as possible.
gonna have to scour CL for a GT grille to cut up
i would love to do something similar, but instead of mesh, use a billet grille and recess it as far back as possible.
gonna have to scour CL for a GT grille to cut up
04-29-2013, 10:51 AM
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I finally made some progress this weekend. It's not perfect and I still have to make some custom brackets to hold the driving lights in place. I had to cut off the mounting points with the honeycombs. Now I will have to mount them to the metal frame behind the grille.
I used 3M bumper epoxy to smooth out all the cuts left from the honeycombs. I also used it to hold the grille pieces to the frame. The grille itself is painted with Plasti dip to give it a matte OEM look and to make touchups easy. The plastic frame is rattlecan rustoleum with about 2 cans of clear on it. Wet sanded and polished it has a pretty decent gloss to it. It would have been a whole lot easier to just Plasti dip the whole thing, but I wanted to match the gloss edge to the Raxiom retro headlights. If I did it again I would get the proper basecoat/clearcoat and do it right. Waiting for paint to dry really sucks.
I would really be happy with the Agent 47 grille, but since they stopped production and I made my own, I went with a different mesh. The one thing I don't like with the Agent 47 grille is that you can see through it. I don't like seeing the frame and radiator behind it. The mesh I chose has a bit of a direction to it, so from a standing height looking down you can not see through it. You would have to crouch down and look upwards, and if you do that then you deserve to see what's behind it.
I used 3M bumper epoxy to smooth out all the cuts left from the honeycombs. I also used it to hold the grille pieces to the frame. The grille itself is painted with Plasti dip to give it a matte OEM look and to make touchups easy. The plastic frame is rattlecan rustoleum with about 2 cans of clear on it. Wet sanded and polished it has a pretty decent gloss to it. It would have been a whole lot easier to just Plasti dip the whole thing, but I wanted to match the gloss edge to the Raxiom retro headlights. If I did it again I would get the proper basecoat/clearcoat and do it right. Waiting for paint to dry really sucks.
I would really be happy with the Agent 47 grille, but since they stopped production and I made my own, I went with a different mesh. The one thing I don't like with the Agent 47 grille is that you can see through it. I don't like seeing the frame and radiator behind it. The mesh I chose has a bit of a direction to it, so from a standing height looking down you can not see through it. You would have to crouch down and look upwards, and if you do that then you deserve to see what's behind it.
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