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08-17-2006, 11:58 AM
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*shrug*
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Mounting Coroplast for a Grill Block
Now, I'm going to pull my bumper today so I can respray the black portion of it to make it look spiffy, and I picking I'll grill it up as well. What do people usually use to mount the block on there? Is there anything that perhaps will not require mutilating my bumper?
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08-17-2006, 12:45 PM
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I should be WORKING now
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No mutilation, eh? Dan used screws on the Del Camino. Looks like basjoos siliconed his on 
I ended up making a kind of bra for mine to avoid that same vexing issue. |
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08-17-2006, 12:48 PM
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*shrug*
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I've never seen pictures of your bra, but I'm prollygoing to hot glue or something. I imagine it'll peel off...
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08-17-2006, 12:55 PM
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I should be WORKING now
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I just made it recently. It's not totally finished. When it is, I'll post some.
It's just a rectangle of black vinyl-ish material with a couple of square holes to let the air through where I want it. Works for me since my car's black. Keeps the bugs & stones off the paint too, I guess.
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08-17-2006, 04:49 PM
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I made a piece of angled sheet metal and attached that to the bumper skin from the underside. I then screwed the coroplast to the angle pieces. For the bottom I used mastic tape. Mastic tape is a roofing product its sticky and stays malible, kind of like silly putty but stickier. Its also sold under the brand "tacky tape".
By doing it this way when I remove the block no screw holes will be visible.
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08-17-2006, 04:52 PM
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*shrug*
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I've figured out how I'll do it. Was about halfway through when I punctured my knee with the knife and went to the doctor's. I'll finish up tonight when I can walk around and stuff, |
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08-17-2006, 06:09 PM
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I've figured out how I'll do it. Was about halfway through when I punctured my knee with the knife and went to the doctor's. I'll finish up tonight when I can walk around and stuff, |
Got any pics of this? You know we want to see. |
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08-17-2006, 06:12 PM
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*shrug*
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Nah, that's okee. If you want to enjoy some good pain you can stab yourself.
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08-18-2006, 12:48 AM
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I am a banana
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I attached my plastic grill block on with zip ties, and black pollyurithane roofing calk, the little bits are 100% held on with roofing calk, and the larger one is zip ties with roofing calk to make it look seamless, I caught a co-worker looking at it one day, baffled at how good it looked.
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08-18-2006, 12:51 AM
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3 pedals>*
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I still have to do the aero mods on my civic. 
It will take hours to make a belly pan and the grill block. 
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08-18-2006, 04:20 AM
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Leg
SVOBoy,
I knew a guy that was putting a shift kit in his C4 tranny and drilled a hole in his leg while drilling out a hole in the valve body separator plate  He was in to big a hurry to go in his shed and use his work bench. Are you two related? |
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08-18-2006, 05:46 AM
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I used the technique as outlined is this post.
http://www.gassavers.org/showthread.php?t=701
I had to drill small holes in the grill slats but the drywall screws seem to be secure. See the following link for pics.
http://servercage.com/wordpress/?cat=7
I cut the hole in front of the radiator ~3.5" x 4". I recently went through some hilly terain in VT and experienced some level of overheating. I had to put the heater on going up the longer hills. I might open it up a bt more but the temps are getting cooler around here.
Sean
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08-18-2006, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by SVOboy
Nah, that's okee. If you want to enjoy some good pain you can stab yourself.
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Okay I'll let you suffer in piece. Would you want to see the pic of my arm that I burned a month ago. I lifted a walk behind blower into the truck and casual wrapped my arm around the muffler. On the inside of my elbow.
Of course I'm kidding. |
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08-18-2006, 11:44 AM
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*shrug*
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Haha, go muffler burns. I took off part of my finger print the other day with one, 
Pictures pretty soon! |
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08-18-2006, 12:43 PM
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Awful.
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08-18-2006, 01:32 PM
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I should be WORKING now
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Bras peeling off- is that a bad thing?  |
The first bra joke took a lot longer to materialize than I thought!
Maybe I should have called it the "bro"... or what's the name they used in that Sienfeld episode? |
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08-18-2006, 01:33 PM
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*shrug*
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Manzier.
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08-18-2006, 01:47 PM
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*shrug*
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08-18-2006, 03:13 PM
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granny just passed me
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Looks good.
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08-18-2006, 03:16 PM
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*shrug*
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Thankee. I repainted a tiny part of my trim for practice and it looks lovely. Car will look brand new when I'm done, |
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08-18-2006, 03:58 PM
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Excellent. How did you attach the foam and Coroplast?
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08-18-2006, 04:00 PM
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Looking good! Are you going to make a section that you plug the hole in the winter time?
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08-18-2006, 04:02 PM
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The foam was just to mock up more easily, but as you can see in the 5th photograph I put little wedges down in the two holes and glued those to the sides, then the coroplast to the top.
For the center part it just kinda rested and I glued from the back.
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08-18-2006, 04:02 PM
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Looking good! Are you going to make a section that you plug the hole in the winter time?
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The hole will mostly be covered by license plate anyway, |
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08-20-2006, 11:46 PM
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*shrug*
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Bling:
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08-21-2006, 11:24 AM
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I like...
Sweet! I am looking to do the same to my del Sol. I can't wait to see your mileage delta from this mod.
Very nice work!
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08-21-2006, 11:37 AM
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I'm not even sure if I'll be driving the car, , though I'd love to see a change!
Have you seen dan's grill block on the old del sol? |
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08-21-2006, 08:01 PM
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www.crxmpg.com/grillblock.html for the full write up. Won't post it in the diy section here since it's been covered enough, unless someone wants me too. (Besides, we already have this thread.)
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09-06-2006, 03:16 PM
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Just a Junior Member
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Bumper is in my garage. Pick up my coroplast (corigated plastic as per the sign shop) tomorrow for $11.22 for the 4 x 8 sheet. Hope to have mine on this weekend. I am thinking of putting in no holes. Has anyone gone no holes?
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09-06-2006, 05:31 PM
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I should be WORKING now
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Your coroplast is cheaper than my coroplast
Just picked up another sheet for my undertray for $18 + tax.
And I'm going to have lots left over. I could have bought a bunch of little scraps and knitted them together into a patchwork, but decided to just do it big. |
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