After a week of cutting and fitting, outlining shapes and take measurments to be perfect. Buying all sorts of mesh, from screend door to diamond, to small boxs to big boxs too alluminum and metal, i finally stuck with 2. Here is my completed mesh grill with custom mitsu tri-dia emblem. I used 1 layer of screen door mesh, to cover some of silver backing that holds the stock grill in place. Than i used mesh alluminum that i bought i True Value Hardware store that i cover the screen door mesh with. Than to keep it secure, i had some brown zip ties that i spray painted black, and secured both the mesh to the grill housing tightly in the 4 corners. I also spray painted both mesh black (the screen door mesh was already black) so it looked more polished. Than i found a mitsu emblem at my local junkyard on an old galant, painted it silver (was red), and super glued it to the center of the grill. I think it came out pretty well, and all my friends told me it really really good and it looks waaaay better than stock. I still need to do some lil adjustments. Id had it on for a week and it hasnt fell off or came loose yet. Even threw speeds of 90+ and the rain we had in cali this weekend, no paint came off the emblem or grill. Ive been turning alot of heads this past week, this guy in a eclipse almost hit another car, cuz his head was turned so far to the side, lol

What do yall think?

Pics taken with camera phone this weekend at UCSB (University of California Santa Barbara)

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looks like somebody stole your grille and you tried to improvise without one. id say just paint a stock one, get an evo or ralliart one.

 

That is exactly what Iam doing. How do you open the hood?

 

^^^ stock grill is ugly, and im not gonna paint it... thats just covering up ugly, its still there and its still ugly...

about opening the hood, its the same way ud open it with the stock grill, there's the same amount of space to open the latch as there was with the stock grill in place, thats how perfect fittment i have it.

 

Hrm. Honestly, it nees some kind of trim around where it connects to the hood. Without it, it looks like a $5 fix. Just my opinion though.

 

I respect everyone customizing their own stuff. Its one thing to throw money on a part for your car from someone else that everone else has. But using your head and time on your car shows you have a real intrest in cars. Sure not everything you can do yourself but at least you wont have the same RRM grill as everone else around you. Its called Originality. I give it a

 

ill sell you the rrm jdm style for 60

 

^^^ naw, im satisfy with my custom, ive got nothing but "tight reviews & waaaay better than stock" on it, plus i wanted to be a lil differ than having an RRM... also the fact, v3 cost like 200+, lol.

 

sorry, i'm so not feeling that. you could have gotten way better mesh, instead of that $5 stuff. maybe if the mesh were more dense...

leave the chicken fence for the farms, it doesn't belong on cars...

 

agreed

 

A for effort, D- for finished product. i dunno theres just something about screen door mesh on our lancer that just makes me think ghetto rigged. u should try to just paint that part of the hood behind the grill black. i dunno i had to do it to make my grill stand out properly and not look GHETTO!

 

i did that way back in the day .. then i got the cf one.. check my register... i think the pic is still there..looks great

 

I think it looks good except for the fact you can see the support/bracketish thing behind the grill, which is a problem all the mesh grills have. I was considering doing something like this except adding some smaller, dark mesh over the support/bracketish thing to black out the opening. I def think this is the best improvised grill so far.