ghetto grill.....?

[JMazdaKTEXmx3]

anyone took 5-6 $$ "gutter guard" at home depot and made a front grill on a stock bumper with it??<p>Just curious cause i went an checked it out today and it dosnt look bad....(a friend turned me on to this idea) i went ahead and bought some ill be putting it on tomorrow...and ill have some pics posted too; if im lucky<p>FYI: the center peice "bar" on my stock bumper was cut out when i bought the car it was a really bad cut but it was in case your wondering so its just a large gap now

[Hy300]

Do it if you think it looks good, not because someone says. Personally I think the front end would look horrible without the stock grille so if you can cover it and make things look right, go for it.

[Custommx3]

many people have done the exact same thing. Gutter guard and the cut-out.
Your going to have a hole on each side if you cut it though.

[JMazdaKTEXmx3]

yea there is two holes on both sides like i said it was already cut out when i bought it kinda sucks but you get what u pay for and i only paid 1600$ (US)

[mx3man83]

put the grill behind the stock grill.. It still looks good and you dont have the cut outs..that is what i did on my RS./\

[VizualXTC]

Here's Mine

[polak_gino]

Visual XTC that looks really good! so u jsut did it infront of the stock grill, and u didnt cu anything out? what did u use to secure it in there?

[992mmx3]

I cut mine out and patched the holes with fiberglass, then bondoed it and sanded it down and then painted over it, it looks stock, And I just skipped out on the mesh stuff, I like it open in the front.

[JMazdaKTEXmx3]

VizualXTC
looks good i only wish mine was still in good condition and not destroyed already ill have pics tonight in school now

[VizualXTC]

What I did is cut the shape of the hole in the mesh leaving little tabs every 5 inches or so. Then I bent the tabs down and used screws to secure them to the bumper. If you look on the far left of the grill there's kind of a "loop" where I've taken some wire and "twist-tied" it to the stock bars. I left them in to give it the form I needed. It actually doesn't look all that good in the light. I painted it black and the paint is falling off. Next time I paint Imma prime it first. I just used a gloss black can of Krylon spray paint.

[JMazdaKTEXmx3]

sorry bout delay of pics i got it on today.....i was called in to work last few days and didnt have time to get it on im chargeing camera battery as im typeing this so i will have some pics on my cardomain site tomorrow or saturday turned out nice i think

[mx3man83]

Today i did my own version of a ghetto grill on my GS..Since i slammed into an electric box my bumper is jacked up and so is my hood. It looked really bad..so i reshaped my hood as much as i could and i cut the middle out of my bumper. I cut all of it out, so i dont have to worry about the little cut outs...then i put some mesh in the hole..I will post pics tomorrow, so be looking in the image forum for my cars..