Well my friend and I were bored today so we decided to paint his grill. He has a 96 hatch and he wanted that open grill look. So we took it off cut the grill insert out smoothed it out applied bondo sanded some more primed, painted and cleared. Let me know what you think.

 

good DIY work i like it...any installed pics?

 

hrmmm dont really think that was -necessary on a 96-98 grill seing as how you could have done that without stripping paint, but it looks nice

 

It didnt have any paint it was just that black plastic, similar to non-painted side moldings. I will get installed pics tomorrow.


Modified by FK00GSR at 6:26 PM 7/15/2004

 

looks good, lets see some pics of it mounted on the car

 

good DIY! looks nice!

 

you do realize that on a 96-98 having an open grill is not a very safe thing in terms of anti theft right? i won't divulge

 

that looks pretty good. i have the
vents cut out of my prelude and they actually looks really good. nice DIY!

 

Can you tell me the steps you used to paint it.

 

your going to put that aluminum grill on the grill right?

 

yeah he said he plans on getting some of the mesh stuff

 

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great job!

post pics of it on the car

 

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nice.. im waiting for the 2nd pic to load to flame you. Cuz im already assumign you did a ricer of a job.. but i stand erected!!! nah man **** came out nice

 

looks good. I would recommend puting some kind of mesh behined it though.

Looks better then my half-assed job.

 

put it on the car

 

Ok for steps,
1. Used a hacksaw blade to cut the grill out of the housing.
2. Dremeled areas where grill was connectng to get it smoothed. (after cutting the grill the plastic was still rough hence the use of the dremel)
3. Applied bondo where needed
4. Sanded it down with 80 and worked my way up to 400
5. Primed with some primer from autozone.
6. Wet sanded with 600
7. Sprayed with Dupli color for "black hondas"
8. Sprayed Dupli color clear
9. Used some cheap rubbing and polishing compound I had lying around.(Turtle Wax brand)
10. And then sit back and have a drink!!!

 

I will have pics up once we paint his lip that he just purchased. And thanks for the compliments!!!

 

Did you get the "black honda" paint from autozone? How was the match?

 

Yes I did get the paint from autozone and the match was pretty good. However, being that his car needs a good polished I believe the colors will match perfect after the car has been polished and waxed.

 

any updates on this?

 

really clean job.