Its was a table and now its a Satoshi

So I bought my Tacoma just a few months ago, my first one. Shortly after I stared looking into this Satoshi Grill mod (after I saw some pictures of the incross).

I just finished it last week and saved some $$$$ in the process (i did just buy a truck)




Yeah thats a table being cut..... I went to some metal shops both in Austin AND San Antonio, but none of them had 1/4" holes with expanded sheetmetal (ESM), smallest they had was half inch...

Snake~ posted this in another thread, looks like they had 1/4" ESM for a cheap price, but I was on a time crunch and didnt have time to get it shipped here before I left for training in Little Rock.....
http://www.customcargrills.com/




some more pics of the the whole process







no pics of the fiber-glass




A Billion hours of sanding and bondo later



Me touchin up the emblem....posted another thread about that yesterday
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacomas/99144-satoshi-grill-symbols.html



Million Billion hours of wet sanding and few coats of primer later.....



Final Product!!!!!!



I like this last pic



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Let me know what you think

Special thanks to my dad and Dan for all their help

 

Nice work man! Looks sharp!

 

Nice Job!!!

 

Dunno maybe it looks different in-person but in the pictures, the shiny chrome doesn't go exactly well with the matte silver Toyota emblem.. If the emblem was smaller then it probably blends in better with the chrome..

 

Very nice!

 

that's kickass!

 

i like the attention to detail and the use of sturdy grating, lol..

BTW, You should Spray your radiator with flat black high temp paint so it doesnt show through the Satoshi grill.. it will looks cleaner

 

haha awesome! Your neighbor will never know where its gone...

 

not bad,lookin good.i'm just glad you didnt use chicken wire.

 

That looks great. Love the ingenuity.

 

Haha very inventive! looks good man

 

Haha thats cool man good job looks sweet!

 

Nice job bud!

I did mine with expanded sheet metal too. And doing my grille only cost me 48 bucks!!

 

That does look very good!

Do me a favor though. Take a daytime picture so we can see how it looks with the chrome. I am very curious.... Thanks

 

damn dude nice job!!

 

It looks bad-ass man. Way to think outside the box on the mesh material.

 

Nice job

 

Yea the sheet metal can withstand way more than what the grillcraft can

 

that looks really good very innovative

wasnt really the word i was looking for but thats besides the point haha it works

i just completed mine and utterly FAILED haha i might post some pics of it later but im not sure if i want my confidence to be shot haha