Made myself a new front grille
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Evening all
Fancied having a go at making a front grille to get a bit more air into the intercooler, the standard ones only have an opening along the bottom underneath the plate, so there's about a third of the grille that is useless. I got myself another grille and got the saw out! I didn't get too many pictures of the process unfortunately.
I chopped all the mesh out leaving me with almost no grille at all, then trimmed the number plate recess down. I've got a slightly smaller front plate so took an inch off either side. Then I added a new mesh and smoothed it all in, rounding off the edges of the number plate piece and smoothing that in too.
Here are some pictures of it half way through, got close to giving up as once I cut the original mesh out it was so bendy and ready to fall to bits I thought it would never work!
Original grille
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/10.jpg)
Then off we go!
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-04-07-038.jpg)
Quick test fit
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-04-08-044.jpg)
In primer after constructing the curved sides to the number plate panel
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-05-242.jpg)
Painted in gloss black
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-06-243.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-06-256.jpg)
Decided then that I wasn't too keen on the gloss black and got myself some plastidip to have a go with
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-12-266.jpg)
And fitted this morning!
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-12-269.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-12-271.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-12-272.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-12-273.jpg)
Next stop, front bumper respray as it's chipped beyond belief.
Cheers
Rich
Fancied having a go at making a front grille to get a bit more air into the intercooler, the standard ones only have an opening along the bottom underneath the plate, so there's about a third of the grille that is useless. I got myself another grille and got the saw out! I didn't get too many pictures of the process unfortunately.
I chopped all the mesh out leaving me with almost no grille at all, then trimmed the number plate recess down. I've got a slightly smaller front plate so took an inch off either side. Then I added a new mesh and smoothed it all in, rounding off the edges of the number plate piece and smoothing that in too.
Here are some pictures of it half way through, got close to giving up as once I cut the original mesh out it was so bendy and ready to fall to bits I thought it would never work!
Original grille
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/10.jpg)
Then off we go!
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-04-07-038.jpg)
Quick test fit
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-04-08-044.jpg)
In primer after constructing the curved sides to the number plate panel
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-05-242.jpg)
Painted in gloss black
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-06-243.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-06-256.jpg)
Decided then that I wasn't too keen on the gloss black and got myself some plastidip to have a go with
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-12-266.jpg)
And fitted this morning!
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-12-269.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-12-271.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-12-272.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/jungleistmassiv/Focus%20ST/2012-05-12-273.jpg)
Next stop, front bumper respray as it's chipped beyond belief.
Cheers
Rich
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Yip that looks 100 times better, looks awesome with the cooler, quite like the side mounted plates people do on st's and remove that part all together
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Where the bit goes from the number plate to the sides, is that like infront of the rill so you can like cut it off or did you use some of the other grill if you know what i mean ![Surprised](https://passionford.com/forum/images/smilies/bigcry.gif)
Looks good though mate!
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Looks good though mate!
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