I would really like to see some close ups of your hood release. I have to
do that before i put my grill in and would like some ideas and/or
directions.
Mike Burns
University of Michigan
Mechanical Engineering
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Martin Nowak wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>
>
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