New grille (now with pics!)

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz · Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:06 pm

I am working on modifying an extra Lanos grille that I bought at a junk yard.

Everyone who mods their grille has mesh, so I didn't want that for my car. :P

So far, I have the center cleared out and am looking for suitable plastic to make the new center grille slats with.
If it turns out as I want it to, the new grille will look like this:

The center grille section will be horisontal and have the Daewoo badge in the center, rather than on the hood.

Wish me luck on finding all the materials needed to finish!!

Cliff

** edited to fix spelling mistakes

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:14 pm

www.onlinemetals.com

they offer plastics too

SickDrift · Post by **SickDrift** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:45 pm

Cool project. Ive always thought that either uniform horizontal, or vertical lines in the grill would be an improvement over the original. cant wait to see it when done.

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz · Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:53 pm

Audacityracing wrote:www.onlinemetals.com

they offer plastics too

Thanks for the site, but they are pretty expensive!

My friend works for AIN Plastics in Virginia Beach, VA and I will try to get him to send me a free sample

http://www.ainplastics.com/public/divis ... /home.html

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:03 pm

they are expensive for their plastics, but it's about as good as it gets for specialty metals :P

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz · Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:08 pm

I might find a broken television and cut up the ABS plastic case.

Open it, pull the electronics and tube and just keep the outside.
That is a good source of high quality flat black plastic ... and best of all, it will be free.

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:50 pm

that is going to be nice mod... looks like the Optra's grill.

MMamdouh

kroz123 · Post by **kroz123** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:39 am

MMamdouh wrote:that is going to be nice mod... looks like the Optra's grill.

MMamdouh

yeah exactly it will look very nice though on a Lanos

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz · Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:45 am

I know this has been taking a while, but I have not had a lot of time between school, homework, working for a friend and trying to be lazy - LOL - but here are some pics of the grille so far:

kroz123 · Post by **kroz123** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:29 am

coming nicely

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz · Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:59 pm

When I have finished attaching all the new parts, everything will get sprayed with Krylon Fusion gloss black paint for plastic to make it all evenly black in color.
Then when the chrome trim is screwed back on, it will look great.

At least ... I hope it will look great.

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:17 pm

nice work man

MMamdouh

Aneab · Post by **Aneab** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:27 pm

I'm pretty sure it'll look awesome, i never thought of doing that, can't wait to see the finished grille!