2012 Grill Craft with Raptor Letters?

Its all done. I got the letters after work today. Painted them and mounted them. There will be more photos tomorrow at the tacomaworld meet.

 

Dig it...nicely done!
$800 cheaper than a satoshi.

 

Thanks. It turned out great. I definitely recommend it. I'm looking forward to the pictures tomorrow at the meet.

 

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While it looks very good, it's no Satoshi...

Not knocking MadeMan's grill, just stating my opinion.

 

Yeah John, I get that....but my point is its $800 cheaper than buying a custom satoshi grille and looks 85% alike. If a 1" lip is worth $800, by all means. And I love a good satoshi.

 

It looks really good in person trust me. I love the way satoshi's look but this was cheap. The mesh cost $185, the letters were $45, and the paint and tape was $15. So for less than $250 bucks you get a really nice grill. How much is the 1 inch of back spacing really worth?

 

You live in the 925 eh Nick? What town?

 

Pleasanton, Ca. I go to the bay area meets. Maybe Ill see you sometime. Your truck looks good.

 

No way you are in Pleasanton! I work out of Pleasanton! Likewise brother, likewise. I'm digging that truck. Is that a Brutforce hybrid bumper I see there?

 

Its an all pro apex high clearance. I'll keep an eye out for your truck.

 

That grill looks damn good for the $$ you put into it.


Satoshi who??


RJM

 

Pics of my truck at the meet. If you guys want ones of just the grill I can go out side and take more. I did gloss black. You can hardly see the letters sometimes but in one of the photos the sun hits them and it looks sick.

 

More photos

 

Looks awesome!!! Any way to take the Grillcraft emblem off? just curious

 

Grill looks awesome. I was pretty busy with the holidays and didn't get a chance to check back in on the thread. Unfortunately I didn't have the spare cash/time to put into putting one of these grills together. Big ups to Mademan925 for tackling this project. The grill looks awesome. As soon as I get the cash together (holidays were expensive this year haha) I'm definitely putting one of these together. I already have the letters just have to order the grillcraft now. Definitely a nice alternative to the expensive santoshi grille.

 

Looks nice, I say paint the letter white. The photo of them in the sun they almost look white, looks good.

 

Very cool, I am so doing this.

 

Yes it does come off. I'm going to leave it on for now.

I had been thinking about doing this for awhile. As soon as I saw the photoshop job of what it would look like I ordered the parts.

I was worried the white might look tacky. The black makes it look like a raptor grill.

Thanks. It was a fun project.

 

Man you have me really stoked after seeing your pics of it successfully being done. I've had a grillcraft grill for a while and just ordered the letters. Looks really good man, I'll post up a pic on here after I finish mine. Also on a SWDC haha