Is this grill too pimped?
#1
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Is this grill too pimped?
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/68070/a8_grill.jpg"></center><p>So, last week, I did the oil cooler service and wrote a tome about it. Anyway, I finished up and started the car to idle for half an hour to ensure there were no leaks, 5 Heinikens in, so then I start wondering about when I'm going to make new grills for the foglights out of that sheet of stainless mesh sitting in the garage, then I start looking at the grill and then out come the snips and well....see for yourself. I feel like I woke up in Vegas married to a hooker...is it too pimpin??
It is totally reversible. The little recessed chrome button on top is actually the hood release. Oh yeah, I swapped out the black pull tongue for a replacement bathroom sink drain pull handle cut and bent it around to accommodate. $3.00 from the local hardware store.
Your thoughts?
It is totally reversible. The little recessed chrome button on top is actually the hood release. Oh yeah, I swapped out the black pull tongue for a replacement bathroom sink drain pull handle cut and bent it around to accommodate. $3.00 from the local hardware store.
Your thoughts?
#3
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Bathroom stopper pull now hood release lever
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/68070/img_3385.jpg"></center><p>
Here is a photo of the new hood release pull from underneath. I removed the hood latch ground the rivet holding the old pop out black tongue, knocked out the rivet and remounted the latch. I then bent the $3 chrome drain pull in a vise and test fitted it several times placing a couple of bends in it to get it more centered and tilted slightly upward at the head to match the slope of the grill. It is also almost flush as I made a little depression all around it on the grill front.
Keep it or chalk this one off as a bad idea??
P.S. the Stainless grill material is from a sheet I ordered from Pegasus Auto racing supply...medium sized openings...I think...$30 for a sheet??<ul><li><a href="http://www.pegasusautoracing.com/group.asp?GroupID=SCREEN">Pegasus Auto racing supply</a></li></ul>
Here is a photo of the new hood release pull from underneath. I removed the hood latch ground the rivet holding the old pop out black tongue, knocked out the rivet and remounted the latch. I then bent the $3 chrome drain pull in a vise and test fitted it several times placing a couple of bends in it to get it more centered and tilted slightly upward at the head to match the slope of the grill. It is also almost flush as I made a little depression all around it on the grill front.
Keep it or chalk this one off as a bad idea??
P.S. the Stainless grill material is from a sheet I ordered from Pegasus Auto racing supply...medium sized openings...I think...$30 for a sheet??<ul><li><a href="http://www.pegasusautoracing.com/group.asp?GroupID=SCREEN">Pegasus Auto racing supply</a></li></ul>
#4
I like it a lot. I remember seeing it
on another forum members car while surfing through picture posters. I'll see if I can find the pic. It was on a black car. How did you secure everything? Nice work.
#5
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Re: Is this grill too pimped?
I've always wondered how that would look. Thanks for doing this job. I think it looks nice. I've tossed around the idea of doing the same thing to my A8. Hmmm...gonna have to study your pic for a while. Well done!
#6
Found it.....
<ul><li><a href="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/51726/t-316_stainless_steel_woven_mesh.jpg">http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/51726/t-316_stainless_steel_woven_mesh.jpg</a</li></ul>
#7
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How do open the hood? Fill the sink.
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/68070/img_3383.jpg"></center><p>A shot from the passenger's side of the new hood release pull. I know a nut is still loose in this photo, and i did just bend the front guide pin up out of the way...no needed as the grill acts as a guide.
The mesh was first secured to the chrome plastic grill surround with...hmmm...lets see what we have lying around....ahhh a caulk gun sized tube of high temp automotive silicone...oh nuts its red...oh well...turns out you can't see it from the front. I used maybe 8 or 10 spring clamps to hold it while it set up overnight. I used black Butyl tape from an autobody supply store to secure it into the opening. I think this is the same stuff they use to secure windshields. In hindsight, black silicone would be easiest for both.
The mesh was first secured to the chrome plastic grill surround with...hmmm...lets see what we have lying around....ahhh a caulk gun sized tube of high temp automotive silicone...oh nuts its red...oh well...turns out you can't see it from the front. I used maybe 8 or 10 spring clamps to hold it while it set up overnight. I used black Butyl tape from an autobody supply store to secure it into the opening. I think this is the same stuff they use to secure windshields. In hindsight, black silicone would be easiest for both.
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#8
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Re: Found it.....
I thought about retaining the stock hood release "tongue" but it would require a fairly big cutout like in that photo. Also, I had the grill naked for a day and thought it looked too naked, my brother (man of very few words) agreed, so then I stuck on the logo sans plastic tabs. I don't know if it is the light or the blackout treatment, but that black one looks...a little too much? Maybe black primer on the fog light grills would quiet things down a little? Anyone handy with photoshop? Hmmm maybe without the chrome grill surround it looks a little lost? Hard to tell from that photo.