Another Satoshi progress thread

Hi All-

Thanks to help from many members of this forum, especially tollphree, I got phase one of my satoshi done.

http://picasaweb.google.com/EricsClicks/Satoshi#5392877577550863186

Future projects will be - doing the triangles, and bumper, and putting some lights behind it. And painting the AC condenser behind it, but not before washing my truck!

I went all ABS on it, and I even made the deep dish an extra 1/2" deep on the sides. See what you think!

 

looks good, did you abs cement the parts in? I hot air welded mine, and the triangles(still in progress)

 

Looks good!!

 

great work!

 

Yeah, abs cement. Wish I had bought an abs welder.

Abs cement is hard to work with, gets air pockets easily if too thick, if too think takes forever to fell in cracks. I did eventually use a pinhole filler like bondo, but a lot better. Dont know the name offhand.

4 solid coats of primer, 4 coats of SEM satin black color coat, then touched up another couple of coats. I used the blue tape, had some trouble there too - get the green tape, much better.

Would love to see how you are doing your triangles - I thought about getting some spare abs and building a deeper dish for those.

 

I just cut out some pieces(and welding rod) from the center I removed,
melted them in, sanded, sanded, promoter,plastic primer, high build primer..and sanded then some semi gloss black. Same for the triangles but had to buy a sheet of ABS and im waiting for my silver to come in.
had some problems in spots with the high build primer cracking, maybe put it on too thick more sanding lol.heres a few pics.

 

shmexy!

 

ohhh you filled the triangles - Im gonna cut mine and put mesh behind em. Looks good though!

 

Most excellent job Eric!

 

Thanks guys. I know alot of you can bang this out in a day... I took 3 weeks about.

Also if you needed something sanded right now - screw you. I aint doin it.

(Hijacking my own thread - I am digging everywhere to find the thread talking about the preferred oil filter to buy, search seems to have a thing for air filters only. Can someone point me in the right direction? I know the fram ones are garbage. Thanks!)

 

looks nice! now paint your radiator black

 

looking really good eric...congrats bro...

glad I could help...can't wait to see it in person this weekend...

 

good job..im thinking about doing this..not dont really wanna spend 160 bucks on a grillcraft..thats the only way id do this mod though

 

you don't have to buy the premade grillcraft mx...you can buy the mx raw mesh (its not powder coated) for cheaper...

20"X10" steel mesh for $39.95.

**All of our sheets of mesh are raw!, they are not powder coated nor polished**

If you would like to purchase any of our mesh you may do so by giving us a call at the below numbers.

Sandra Valenzuela
Sales Dept.

GrillCraft Custom Products
12425 Eucalyptus Avenue
Hawthorne, CA 90250
orders@grillcraft.com
1-888-300-9258 Toll Free
1-310-970-0300 Direct
1-310-970-0400 Fax

I bought raw mesh through sandra to complete the 2 triangles an also match the mesh for my CF hood scoop...

 

I like the frame on it, worth the $150...well we will see, its ordered.

 

Mine was a mesh from customcargrills, aluminim powder coated I think it was like 60$. Had to buy paint and some supplies but most of this mod is elbow grease.

 

are there any first gens that have done this?

 

i feel the same way..i know that there are raw grill mesh out there but it wouldnt look as nice

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/EricsClicks/Satoshi#

I screwed up on the link, there's the whole gallery.