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Got home today from a terrible day at work and got the best suprise ever. My new t-rex premium grill came in. I just finished installing it and i love it.

Hear are some pics and tell me what you think.



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I want to find a better way to support the upper part of the bumper so I can cut that stupid bar out of the center. And I think I want to paint the white bar just above the new grill.

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what did you do to make it black inside of the holes on the lip?

btw..grill looks good

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have you considered painting the bars white that go around the mesh?

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WTF? Where did this grill come from???

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Nice grill, looks good, but I'd paint the borders white like Altima_Coupe suggested.

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Yea I am considering painting the border white to match the car.

This is the t-rex premium mesh grill. It came in black and went on extremely easy. I only found one website that sells it in black and that was Autoanything dot com. But there shipping takes for ever and they dont show any pics of the black on the site.

This is the photoshop of what it should look like when I am done with it

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Just made my apointment to have the border painted white tomarro. So I will have it done by tomarro

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Infantry1327 wrote:Just made my apointment to have the border painted white tomarro. So I will have it done by tomarro
sweet. looking forward to see it. are you have the mesh painted too?

and how did you go about painting inside the lip holes?

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if you got some silver paint and did the support it would blend into the the background better, dont you think.... well at least in the pictures,

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I am just painting the border, the mesh is going to stay black. The grill right now is the way I got it from autoanything. I did paint that center bar black because you could see it way to well white. I might try painting it gray, that actually sounds like a good idea.

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I didnt paint inside the lip holes, I just slid some black vinal in there. That way if I ever take my lip off then i dont have big black spots on my bumper

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Infantry1327 wrote:I didnt paint inside the lip holes, I just slid some black vinal in there. That way if I ever take my lip off then i dont have big black spots on my bumper
ahhh...good thinking. i think it looks real good.

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Infantry1327 wrote:I didnt paint inside the lip holes, I just slid some black vinal in there. That way if I ever take my lip off then i dont have big black spots on my bumper
Oh damn. I didn't notice that until he pointed it out. Looks REAL good. I was thinking about having it painted but vinyl sounds good to me. Where'd you get your vinyl by the way?

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Took me a while to even realize there was a grill there. I thoughtyou just had the piece missing and open.

Not my cup of tea, but gj.

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I got the vinal from a buddy of mine, but I know they sell vinal sheets at super autobac, and i think a lot of autopart stores sell vinal sheets as well.

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how much did your grill cost? and if you find a way to remove that bar in the middle share please! thanks

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With tax and shipping, it came to $335.05 and i am going to go by home depot tomarro and see what I can rig up

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Looks good!!! and you blacked out your holes!!! Nice

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Very nice mang! But wow $310 for the grill??

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Get some bumper plugs for those holes!

Anyone looking for pieces of vinyl should be msging me!

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IMHO looks horrid. Paint it all to match the body of the car and it will look much better.

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Ehh..I don't know about this. I need to see it all painted up. Hmm and maybe some eyelids too.

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Keep your pants on, It will be painted and back on the car around 1900 Cali time.

I was going to put blue bats gtr overlays on, but I am going to be ordering my projectors from brandon pretty soon, so I dont want to spend money on something I am just going to rip off.

$310 is pricey, but its actually the cheepest I have seen that grill go for. Most sites sell the chrome for $328.


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Infantry1327 wrote:I want to find a better way to support the upper part of the bumper so I can cut that stupid bar out of the center. And I think I want to paint the white bar just above the new grill.
try using black radiator paint and paint the radiator black so that way from a distance it will all just look black behind the mesh and you wont even be able to see the bar in the middle. looks good though, after you paint the grill white and keep the mesh black it should look really nice. you should paint the black part near the fog lights (the big black strip in the stock bumper) white.

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Infantry, you have mail.

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you need to slap the burger on that grill.

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Matt, did you send me an email or where you refering to robs email. I got an email from rob, but not you.

I dont like that huge stock burger, but I am going to try and find a different badge to throw there. I might even get one made that says Nissan in cursive.

I really don't want to paint my radiator, so I am going to figure out a better way to support the uper part of the front end. Even just having the metal grill, instead of the plastic one gives it alot more support.

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you should have an email from me.

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ok, now you have mail


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