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Old 02-09-2009, 01:38 PM
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Default My progress so far.

preparing for the RS4 mesh.

Also Saturday w/ help from a friend, was able to bend my hood back & now can open my hood.

I gotta figure how I'm gonna mate the existing foglight surround (plastic), to the new RS4 mesh.

Before
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Hacked my S4 bumper, preparing for paint sometime nxt month or so
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Dremel work
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Default not removing centre bar?

looks good so far
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Default nah i like the center part......gonna keep it....gonna be a little tricky cutting this grill right

the first time. lol. I wish I had more just in case.
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Nice work, looking good so far.
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Default that lower mesh looks really good; where'd you get it from?

I should get that for mine, too.
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thanks!
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i got it from LLtek
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I think he said it was from LLtek.
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Default here's an idea for forming the mesh into the openings-

cut a template out of hard foam or cardboard to fit the shape of the 2 slots in your bumper piece. leave enough gap for the thickness of the mesh.

heat gun the mesh-not much, and slowly- push your template in just enough to form the mesh in there.
pull out and trim

it should have molded enough to get a decent cut and fit onto your bumper pieces.

test it out on a scrap piece of mesh first to get the hang of it
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good advice man...thanks! I'll def try that out.


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