Re: RE: Honeycomb Mesh

From: Martin Nowak (got-speed@cox.net)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 08:55:08 EDT


Take a look at my website I have some (sorta) closeup shots of my front
grill. I bought the kits from www.grill-tech.com they even have a dak on
their homepage.
I am very happy with the look and quality of the metal. It cost me roughly
$80 for the upper and lower. I changed the mounting idea from the
instructions.... They tell you to ziptie the mesh to the black plastic veins
in your grill. Well I had previously used the gutter mesh type and had
removed the veins for that. I ended up drilling 1/8" holes in the grill and
ziptiyng the new mesh to that. I did the same for the bumper, only with that
you cannot even see the zipties at all ! You can buy the kit, or use the
gutter mesh, if you use the gutter mesh it will oxidize being that it is
aluminum, even the $20 kits on ebay will, they will all eventually oxidize
after a few months, I had even clear coated mine but the washing and repeted
bug guts took all that off. I reccomend the grill tech kits. they are chrome
plated (or black) and are a very good quality mesh. IMO if you follow the
directions it will look ghetto, if you would like I can take closeups of the
way I mounted em as well as my hood release ($3 in parts).

Marty
http://members.cox.net/got-speed

<raymond.irons@gm.com> wrote in message
news:OF6B03656A.5114E755-ON85256BE4.0038F4A4@mail.gm.com...
>
>
> >I'd just like to have some cheap stuff that's easily available and looks
> >good so I can have it on by this Friday (NOPI).
>
> <-Ryan
>
> Ryan,
> I put grille mesh in my Dak this past weekend and it looks pretty
> good. For both the upper and lower opening, I used rain gutter mesh. I got
> some good ideas from gibsdakota.com and drunkenbear.biz. I used a
> combination of both sites and I think I have a total of about $15 tied up
> in it. I even rigged a remote hood latch release so I can have the entire
> grille covered by the mesh. If you want email off line and I'll send you
> pics of the hood release and the grille and give you the details on what I
> did. The hardest thing to do was removing the bumper to install the mesh
in
> the front fascia. Thank god for air tools. I think all together, it took
me
> about 3 hours to do everything.
>
> Ray
> Dover, DE
>



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:04:50 EDT