FINALLY finished my Custom TRD FSB!+HELP with grilles?

[RDKamikaze]

Ok, well it's not REaLLY a TRD FSB, but it looks nice! I wet sanded and painted the factory bar red and then threw on my TRD sticker today. IMHO it looks pretty nice! I've had it painted and sitting there for about a month now, but I finally got the stickers in the mail. What do you all think?

A few more pics HERE









P.S. I just got my grilles in the mail 5 minutes ago. I'm going to install them and upload pics, as well. Thanks qtpiie!

[rollaevo99]

it needs more coating to look glossy....but I like it, good job!!!

[RDKamikaze]

The not-glossy reason is because we had no red paint in the shop except for engine enamel. So I kind of painted it with the 1200* resistant paint, lol!

[Astro]

That looks pretty good! I'm sure that paint will hold up with the heat...LOL!

[RDKamikaze]

Lol ya! Since Arizona feels like it's getting that hot anyways, I was better off safe than sorry .

About the grilles: how do I make it look flush with everything? For the top grille, I screwed on the two side screws and drilled a hole in the black part of the bottom of he front part to stick a metal wire around. I did all that, but the grille looks like it's being eated by the hood. Here's some pics.

[cklinh]

That's how it is.

[Paladin06Greg]

I think the bar looks good now please wash that engine off.

[RDKamikaze]

Haha, ya my engine's a little dirty. I've been too busy with a bunch of other things to worry about it, but my next wash it's going to be cleaned .

About the grille: look at rollaevo99's sig. His looks a lot more flush at the top at least thank mine does.

P.S. Good news! My ankle was x-rayed today (along with my finger) and it's only sprain! My finger, however, is fractured at the ligament and needs 8 weeks on this custom splint. Wee!

[Biggi_e]

rollaevo99 has a stock grill, the other car in his sig is mine and i have the lundz grill

[cklinh]

^^^Just to reiterate, when I had the Mike T Mesh Grills, that was the way they looked.

[RDKamikaze]

Alright, that's cool. I'm getting used to this grill now, and I can't wait to install the other one when I get home from my trip on Saturday!

[woa_its_j3ff]

i wonder what ppl will say once they realize it's not trd

[---CAMRAZY---]

Seriously, TRD sticker + Red Paint = "Custom"....



LOL, You get an A for Effort.

[RDKamikaze]

Thanks for the props camrazy, I'll keep that in mind for my next big project: converting my car to a rice burner instead of a gas burner! All's I need is a good rice blender, blend that shiz, and throw it in the tank! But first, I MAY have to decrease the size of my tank to about 5 gallons, the other 10 is all just dead weight. I'm expecting about 70-85mpg on the streets average, and at least a 14% HP gain.
Probably too much from all the pain in my ankle!