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:
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
I was going to just paint mine black, but it got pulverized before I got around to it.
I can get stainless perforated metal like that at my work, got a bunch of it around
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.
Home Depot and Lowes has that mesh like Summit, but way cheaper!!! :grinno:
Are you thinking somthing like this???
(http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/1/web/349000-349999/349244_17_full.jpg)
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.
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.
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
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.
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:
(http://img67.exs.cx/img67/7167/grillmod3fp.jpg)
(http://img67.exs.cx/img67/3897/grillemod2ym.jpg)
like i said, the stuff i can get is WAY too thick, check your local sheet metal shops bro
That looks awsome! :banana: You did that in 5 minutes? Very impressive.
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.
I use that stuff on the bottom of my rabbit pen
Heh.. I use it to surround a small raised garden I made a couple years ago, to keep the critters out. I caged in the rest with a larger wire, but the local birds could get into it.. so I stopped using it. I need to build an entire cage out of hardware cloth for the stuff I really want protected.
LOL yea that custom grill is sweet though, but problem is my car is already in the shop getting painted o well