[zoltiz]

Can't say it was a piece of cake, but not rocket science either. Wanted to use my dremel for something and came up with this project. Bought a gutter guard from HD for $1.27 and tried to make the best out of it.

Thinking about painting the grill black, but need to figure out how to prevent it paint from chipping.

Start of the Gutterguard Project:

Finish:

 

[zoltiz]

Here's the same thing painted black:

http://zoltiz.com/cars/tc/grill/black.jpg

It's a little higher res, so I don't want to post the image directly in the thread.

 

[OliverThomas]

eh... looks ok, would look much better black... but dont you ever admit to the fact that it's gutterguard... thats the ultimate "ricer" mod.

 

[moriarty]

interesting. way to think outside of the box.

 

[zoltiz]

Originally posted by OliverThomas@May 1 2005, 09:49 PM
eh... looks ok, would look much better black...

Click the link in my second post...

 

[mrbrace]

I think that if you did it all around like underneath too and painted it black it would look better, like the bottom lip

 

[zoltiz]

Do you guys see the painted pic?

 

[mrbrace]

Yes I saw it you can't hardly see its there

 

[Azrael]

Do the bottom grill now.

 

[zoltiz]

Originally posted by Azrael@May 2 2005, 10:34 AM
Do the bottom grill now.

I can't - I have to work now. Need to save up for this other piece of gutterguard...

 

[whosthatrussian]

^ ...cute.

I think it looks ok, when you paint it black, it looks similar to the stock grille, except more fine. I think it will look better if you chrome the sheizer out of it. Same thing goes for the bottom grille, if you chrome both, I think it'll look tight.

 

[Azrael]

I'll give you $5. That way you can buy enough to do your bottom grill and two more for me. Sound like a good deal to you?

 

[zoltiz]

I actually tried to do the bottom one last night - got to the bottom grill from underneath the car, but the damn thing is not screwed to the bumper - it's either glued or has plastic studs melted to hold it down. It was dark and very uncomfortable under a jacked up car, so I'm going to stick to having the top only for now.

 

[Plissken]

^^^ Zip tie it on top of the stock grill. You win.

 

[Azrael]

Ohhhhh, man that's ghetto.

 

[zoltiz]

http://zoltiz.com/cars/tc/grill2

Mo pictures. With a tiny update.

 

[Azrael]

I dig the update. Very nice!

 

[Mica]

yup, looks better with that vvti badge.

 

[chipmOnk]

Do you have any close up shots? Like of the actual material?

 

[zoltiz]

There is a zoomed in link at the bottom of the page - you can kinda see the texture. Gutter guard is a gutter guard.