Grille Tutorial
04-04-2006, 07:37 PM
#6
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Join Date: 10-24-2005
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Captain Howdy can speak up, he cut his, I bought his remains!!!
The top bar is all that left, which I believe is small tabs, too the next bar below, and then the outside frame. It cuts eaisily with a cutting wheel, just need to clean up with file, afterwards.
The top bar is all that left, which I believe is small tabs, too the next bar below, and then the outside frame. It cuts eaisily with a cutting wheel, just need to clean up with file, afterwards.
04-04-2006, 07:52 PM
#7
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Join Date: 08-24-2005
Location: BalCo, MD
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yes where is the good captain...I also might do something completly different as I have an extra grille to work with after the accident I got in...the old grille has only a couple scratches on it...
-wC
-wC
04-04-2006, 08:03 PM
#9
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For the CW one like I have you have to chop off your top piece and sand it flat with the billet part. For the Stull one you have to chop out all of your center bars and sand it flat around the frame. The hardest part is getting over the fact that you are chopping up a perfectly good factory grille. I had second thoughts at first but I looked at the picture of the red HHR with the CW grille on their site and thought about how much cooler the CW grille is compared to the factory grille so I turned my head and made my first cut. After the first cut it is easy because then it sets in that there is no turning back. The CW is the easier of the two and requires a lot less cutting and sanding. With the CW grille there is only 4 cuts and all the sanding, with the stull there is 10 cuts and all of the sanding.
08-20-2006, 01:32 AM
#10
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Sorry to bump an old post like this but it fits the question I was going to ask. Anyone have pics or perhaps some walkthrough info for cutting out the center bars of the factory grill? I don't want to install the stull grill per se but I'd like to have that outer rim for the idea I'm looking into and would like to see what I'm getting into before I go cutting away.