Front Bumper Grill Question

[ricachoterols]

Still at it with the grilles....

Has anyone cut out the vertical lines off of the front bumper grill? I did a photoshop rendition of this, see pic below. I'm just curious if there will be any adverse effects to the horizontal lines of the grille when I do this.



Comments are welcome.

BTW, I saw a member do something interesting with the bumper grille where he painted the vertical lines black to accomplish the same look.

[bwimports]

it will probably make it wobbly. for my 98 montero sport, i can bend the two big bars going across now that i cut off the vertical bars. i don't think they are going to flap at high speeds like the evo wing you can get on lancers. and those definately aren't gonna save you in an accident, so.....

[sirlordoz]

u may get the bars to sag in the midle a lil bit but if u like the look id tape em up and spray em black u should get the same effect just that u will see em up close
Oz

[ricachoterols]

I proceeded to cut the vertical pieces from the bottom and boy the bottom horizontal line sagged! I went ahead and reinstalled the front license plate. That was a bad idea! I will check out Grill Tech to see if they have something for the upper and lower grilles.

[TiMSmo0th]

I painted the front grill and it worked out well.
www.cardomain.com/ride/682237

[bwimports]

kinda off topic, but your hyper white lights look pretty good. i put some hyper whites in the front map lights, but i ended up using some blue led lights for the overhead ones, which aren't bright at all. my blue license plate lights faded back to yellow in about a month.

your grill looks pretty clean. you might want to get some plugs/caps to cover up the license plate holes.

[TiMSmo0th]

Thanks. Yea I thought about that when I was painting it, but I forgot about them...