Hi guys just finished phase 1 of my mod on 3 front lower grilles. Let me know what you think, I still need to finish off with about 3 good coats of black paint. I used the stock inserts for the base of this mod. If there is enough interest I will post step by step

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Looks amazing. Please post step by step.

God please paint that stuff black, right now it looks like a riced out accord ;)
Next step is to make the grill

Lol, I sort of agree. I love the idea behind it but god its so chincy. Just mask it in some black paintlike the RS6's and it will look even better. Becides if you decide black is not your style you can always re-paint in silver.

I would say black too

It definetly needs to be in Black. I expect it will look great after that.

B L A C K! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Will look good though...once painted.

As I originally posted, this is phase 1, I am definitely painting these black, in fact the first coat of primer is drying as I type this. If I get the desired effect with the black paint I will continue to the upper grille, which I have a feeling will be more difficult. I would love to have bought these, but as you know, they dont sell em. So chop cut rebuild. Thanks for the input. unfortunately I have to agree with Halik, right now it looks ricey. But solace comes to me knowing that I have a stage 3- A6, which will spank any accord on the road

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As I originally posted, this is phase 1, I am definitely painting these black, in fact the first coat of primer is drying as I type this. If I get the desired effect with the black paint I will continue to the upper grille, which I have a feeling will be more difficult. I would love to have bought these, but as you know, they dont sell em. So chop cut rebuild. Thanks for the input. unfortunately I have to agree with Halik, right now it looks ricey. But solace comes to me knowing that I have a stage 3- A6, which will spank any accord on the road


Looking forward to those pics. If it looks good may have to do it myself. I think it'll look nice once its finished.

Very nice, can't wait to see hte final product... painted. Also you definitely need to make or find a mesh upper grille now :)
Nice job!

I've always liked a cross-wired or honey-comb look. I'm sure it will look great once they are black!

When will these companies realize what we really want and create an inexpensive, yet high quality grille?

That's a Stage 3? Talk aboutsleeper.

3- and yes it takes most by complete surprise. Went all the way back to stock wheels for a true sleeper look. Recently dynoed at 326AWHP on pump gas. Here are the updated pics on the mod. Black most definitely looks less ricey and more classy

lets try that again, crappy picture but you get the idea, less raw aluminum and more classy flat black

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nice, can't wait for better pics!
So what mods do you have to make it a stg3 and what more do you need for stage(fueling and intercoolers?)

mods include
-RS4 K04's
-upper and lower turbo piping
-IPP intercoolers
-piggie pipes
-bosch racing 5 barFPR
-forge diverter valves
-turbosmart MBC in parralell with N75
-GIAC 1.3bar X chip
-GIAC TIP chip ( soon to be VAST I hope)
-samco TBB ( soon to be APR bi-pipe)
-darintake
-2.5" custom catback

Heads were 100% rebuilt, ported and polished

I still need to get the fueling done. Really considering ASP, but kinda wouldn't mind staying home brew. Once fueling is done I will upgrade the chip and should be full stage 3.
Lemmiwinks has also been my friend while doing this homebrew

better pic. or bigger pic

Looks sick.

Saw your post on the Canadian forums too. Hope you're in Toronto one of these weeks and come out to a meet, i'd love to see that sleeper

No unfortunately I am in Calgary, but thanks for your positive feedback

WOW,Nothing, that looks great. If you dont mind telling me how you did it I would love to give it a try. It gives it that RS6 look..

Step by Step

Tools- dremmel
jigsaw
offset tin snips
sidecutters
linesman pliers

Materials- expanded aluminum (good quality from a custom metal shop)
16 ga wire

Step 1: Remove all three of your lower front grilles, the fog light grilles pull out easiest if yuou grab them nearer to the center grille and pull. Center grille is a bit stiffer, you may need to drop the front bumper to pull it out

Step 2: Take your 3 inserts and get ready to cut, for this process I tried various tools and techniques. In the end I found a combination of sidecutters and jigsaw worked the best.

Step 3: What to cut? On the center grill you will find that there are vertical support brackets behind the horizontal grilles. these must stay in tact, as they hold the mounting tabs. I cut out all the horizontal grilles, trimmed back vertical supports so they were all even.

Step 4: Once the cutting is done use the dremmel with drum sander attachments to clean up the raw edges of the cut ABS plastic

Step 5: You should now have the outer trim piece with the vertical supports inset slightly, from here you take your expanded aluminum and cut it to approximate size ( slightly larger than required). take your time lining the metal up, try to create an even look on all sides.

Step 6: mark your metal and cut to fit inside insert( again slightly large), this process is tedious and requires patience. You keep fitting and re-fitting while constanting timming to get the perfect fit.

Step 7: Once you are happy with the fit, take the 16 ga wire. Wire the new grille insert onto the vertical supports. If you cut your metal correctly, you will be able to hide the wire on the underside of the metal expansions(barely visible up real close) Use the linesman pliers to twist the wire until it is tight , your grille insert shouldn't budge

the fog lights are much the same process, I left the part which directs the fog light beam intact to help keep the light shining in the right direction. Fog light gilles only have 2 vertical supports, but you get the idea.

All three of these grilles should fit with ease back into their original location, using their stock mounting clips. I plan on finishing my grilles with 3 coats of high quality black paint.

good luck, have fun

You going to do the upper grill as well?

Lowers look great! but make the upper look a bit out of place....or its just me.

stage 3....you'll never even think about this car being a stage 3...never.....

The lowers do make the upper seem out of place. Definitely planning on the upper too. But it will be alot more difficult. I pulled the upper to check out how things line up and are mounted. Might require a little bit of engineering, but i'll getter done

Looks nice! I knew the black paint would refine it up.

i actually bought a s6 grill and it wont fit my a6 bc of a metal bar across the bottom ... all you have to do for these grills is bore out a couple screws and re-assemble and it will slide right in ... PM me if u want a photo step by step ... just buy the rs6 or s6 grill from teh dealer and it should take about 2 hours to get it to fit

I like the look of the S6 and RS6 grille, but my car is 2001 pre-facelift. I am not sure if they will fit. I'm pretty sure that with a little thought I can fab the upper out of the same expanded aluminum, using the stock mounting tabs. Just time and patience, all that is required. If you know for sure that the S6 grille will go on pre-facelift, i'll give it a try.

i have it sitting in my room now ... whats your email and ill send u my pic instructions

bump for guy on audizine

I thought I would share my freshly fabricated upper and lower grills.
I made these out of necessity as I am a cheap bastard, but I do like to fabricate.
I go for the clean look.
BENG