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Custom Grill

i was looking into making a custom grill for my car. my 87 t-bird sport grill is alright, but i want somthing that will make the car stand out. i thought i would be cool to do a custom grill n stick a big turbo coupe bird symbol in the middle, i wanted to make it out of mesh kinda like eric from coolcats did but the guy wont contact me back to let me know where he got it.  :2gunsfiri so if u konw n e cool kinds of mesh i could use or n e thing let me know cause i liked the speaker pattern one but cant find it  :wtf:

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Reply #1
oh you won't get an answer out of eric for the grille, that's his ancient chinese secret ;). If there's one secret he keeps about his car, it's definitely his custom grille.

But if you look around on his site more, it says he got it at a swap meet.
http://www.coolcats.net/eric/86convertible/history/2003.html

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Reply #2
I was going to just paint mine black, but it got pulverized before I got around to it.

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Reply #3
I can get stainless perforated metal like that at my work, got a bunch of it around

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Reply #4
I think I might have something that would interest you possibly. I have an 83 TC, and I also was going to do soemting with my grill this winter when i get it painted, and for my idea, I ran across Summit. In their sport compact section, they have the "mesh" that you were tlaking about. It comes in a couple different colors. and its only like $25 for a 8"H 47"L roll of it. I was thinking of buying it for my grill, and thought you might be interested in it also.

 Let us know what you come up with,

  Frank M.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/665379

1983 TurboCoupe-T3 .60/.63, 3" exhaust, Motorsport front mount, PJ, large VAM, green tops, 8.8" w/ 3.55's, 13.72@97mph
1985.5 SVO
1984 Fullsize Bronco- 300, NP435

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Reply #5
Home Depot and Lowes has that mesh like Summit, but way cheaper!!! :grinno:
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Reply #6
Are you thinking somthing like this???



Erics grill is a a well kept secert that he has shared with me but thats only because I created my own with out any info from him. Now its up to you to make your own but by next year mine will be different.

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Reply #7
http://store.summitracing.com/eproduct.asp?N=120+4294925242+4294922534+305152

That stuff?

That's what my friend used to redo the grille on my old Escort.. and what I wanted to use when I had the car originally.. and may just use on the '86's grille someday. (or, more likely, try to get a second grille and mod that one.. so in case I screw it up, I have the original to put back on) Anyway, I think he used the Home Depot equivalent.

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Reply #8
I stumbled across this awhile ago. Never saw one actually on a car but it looks lkinda cool:

http://www.spoilers.com/clearance/fotbird.htm
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Reply #9
yeah, thats the stuff... havnt been to lowes/HD in a while, so didnt know it was there for cheaper. I had just remembered that stuff from Summit...


Frank M.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/665379

1983 TurboCoupe-T3 .60/.63, 3" exhaust, Motorsport front mount, PJ, large VAM, green tops, 8.8" w/ 3.55's, 13.72@97mph
1985.5 SVO
1984 Fullsize Bronco- 300, NP435

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Reply #10
This was a quick five-minute job just to see how it would look.  Perhaps you could take a similar approach with a T-Bird:




"lol.. because not too many people care for that style of car"
[size=-2]Click on paw print \/[/size]


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Reply #11
like i said, the stuff i can get is WAY too thick, check your local sheet metal shops bro

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Reply #12
That looks awsome! :banana:  You did that in 5 minutes? Very impressive.

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Reply #13
I have a couple ideas I want to look into, because I think that diamond-shaped mesh on Andrew's is a little too thick. (don't get me wrong, it looks good.. I'd just want less metal blocking the opening) Maybe I should start looking for a cheap spare grille for the '86 and try this sooner rather than later.

EDIT: I was thinking of something like this as one possibility. 1/2" hardware cloth, the plain ol' Home Depot kind, heavily coated with black paint and maybe some clearcoat. My original notion was to turn that 45 degrees to make it a diamond pattern, but that could be annoying to try and line up.. so I could just try it as lined up in the pic.

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Reply #14
I use that stuff on the bottom of my rabbit pen