My daughter wanted a grille like on my red car so I made another. Tighter mesh and smaller letters. Some guys didn't like the bigger letters on my first grille

Here's the overall look. Haven't modded this car except the Alpine Stereo. For a 93 with 173,000 miles on it, it doesn't look too bad IMHO and runs great.

I actually don't like the new one as well as the first one I did. I like the larger letters better and since they came in one piece it was easier to apply.

 

Looks better on the green one....

 

It's pretty nice. It's not ricey or ugly, it's just not really my taste. I think I would go no logo (just a mesh grill) before I would put the Maxima lettering there. thumbs up for being neat and clean, too.

Do you have the original Aztec Red hamburger logo? I would be willing to pay shipping to swap with mine -- it is black inside since the first owner must have had been in a little wreck.

 

me like it.

 

Thats real nice...I personally like it on the red car better...it does look better with bigger letters...whered you get those at?

 

I have to agree it does look alot sharper with the larger letters. no offense but it looks a little goofy with the smaller letters.

 

Whats up with the purple Thundercats Logo

 

Very nice...doesn't seem too ricey for me. Now if you had "SE-R" on there or something....

 

i still like the red one better, looks really nice - good work

 

To answer a few Q's:
The logos came from the Dealer. The smaller one is 6th gen. the larger is 4th gen.
The "thundercat" is a PowerCat from Kansas State University.
I like the larger one too, plus I think on the red car the black inside is more of a contrast than the black against the dark green.
The smaller mesh was harder to work with too, as the larger mesh was stiffer.
Thanks for the comments.

 

i like them both. i made a mesh grille, little different than yours i cut all the center out and fitted pieces in the gaps and put the mesh in. mine took me forever! how long did it take you?
like this

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I want the red -style.

 

I didn't cut my grill up, I just mounted the mesh over it after masking it off and painting the middle of it black. It took about three hours spread over a couple days (drying time)

 

yeah i can see the original grille behind your mesh. it def. gives a nice touch to it. mine took me way too long to make.

i think the best thing about yours is they dont look ricey at all. they have class.

 

sweet looks cool the smaller maxima looks better i think
i like no emblem as i always get poeple who dont know what i drive "whats that"
nice work

 

Thanks, I think that grille of yours would look great painted all black.

 

Sorry for being a little off-topic here, but being the KU fan that I am, this struck me as kind of odd....

I looked at your first pic and noticed the K-State logo there....thought it was interesting since I'm from Kansas as well. But then I looked over and saw that it says you're from Lawrence?!?

What kind of person lives in Lawrence and likes K-state? Your car must get keyed alot or something, driving around with that liscense plate....

 

Look closer at the red car. I went to K-State for three years but graduated from Kansas Unversity. The green car is my youngest daughter's who is a soph. at K-State. She's using my Tundra to tailgate for the Big State Rivalry game this weekend!

 

I really like the way that came out. What did you use for the mesh and how did you adhere it? I've been wanting to do this with my grille for quite some time, but I knew without some direction I'd f00k something up. I think the dark mesh/logo-less look really fits the max's front apperance well

 

The Aztec Red car has 1/4 inch hailscreen, the Black Emerald car has 1/8 inch hailscreen. First cut perfectly to size, prime, paint. I used straightened out paper clips as tie wires. (tried copper wire and the paint didn't want to stick to it) Then you touch up the wires and they just disappear. Any time the mesh gets a little nick where the paint comes off you can use a little foam brush to touch up.

Kkennedy3-I tried to PM you and couldn't. I have a good friend that lives by you in Elinwood.

 

Ah, didnt notice the KU/K-state split tag in the background Thats pretty cool though. And btw, KU is gonna whoop up on K-state on saturday...in Manhattan even, lol. My family has season tickets to the KU home games, so I'm not going to be there, but it's going to be on TV locally anyway.

As for the PMs, yeah I had something checked wrong in my options page. It should work now, so if you want to talk there that'd be fine.

 

Stupid Q but where on earth can one find Hailscreen???

 

I work ath HD, never heard of Hail Screen. Is it another name for hardware cloth?

 

sweet clean cars man, the grille looks good

 

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