cloth grille? new idea, i have too many that i'll never use
 

anyonethink a cloth mesh grille could look cool?

was thinking it might look pretty good to take a good sized piece of cloth mesh (like lacrosse mesh) and stretching it over a grille, maybe even fastening it with sidewall string (like a lacrosse head). anyone think it might look cool? i do, but i'd have to see it first, maybe ill buy some bulk mesh to check it out

im thinkin maybe expanded metal would be better

what exactly does that look like?
i was thinking about the lax mesh because its so cheap, and comes in a ton of colors, and if you strung it, you could have accent colors too

cloth + weather = I dont see it lasting.

Dale, not the best example, but here's what my truck looked like when I had made mesh inserts with "extruded metal." It is aluminum, about 1/8" think and cost me about 25 bucks off of ebay.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...l/184d49c6.jpg

nice, i like that, you cut it to fit yourself?

i just realized i put this in interior forum too, my bad

Thanks. I did cut that myself, it was pretty easy. All I needed was a Dremel tool, some blue painters tape and a bit of patience.

i dont know how that would look with my grille, and i havent really looked into it enough to know if i could just yank out an insert, do the 01-03 style tic-tac-toe board grilles pull out of that whole under-the-headlights part?

If what you're talking about is the honeycomb part, it does come off with the part under the headlights. You don't need to pull that off to do what I did, just overlay the mesh on top of it and hold it down with small zip ties.

I used heavy duty poly screen door mesh to cover the honeycomb grille after a few birds got cheese grated and made a bloody mess (literally) on my rad. It was functional to keep bugs off the rad too, but just looked like sh*t IMHO.

i wouldnt complain if i had the honeycomb, but i wanted to replace my chrome one, i'd post a pic but its not letting me right now so this link better work

fingers crossed