Finished My Satoshi

So after a long two weeks I am finally done my satoshi grill. It was not exactly a hard project, it just took time to make sure I did thinks right.

I started by using a dremel to cut out the in cross members of the grill. This was quick and dirty, its hard not to feel bad while doing it tho.

Next I used a fiberglass repair kit to fill the holes from where the cross members once were.


I let that sit for about an hour and a half then I went on to the bondo.


Then there was a whole lot of sanding done, sand then bondo then sand, and sand, and sand some more.


Now I have it primed and painted, I used filler primer and a gloss black acrylic enamel.


This is the material I used for my grill, I ordered it off of customcargrills.com


I also sanded the chrome off and had a local body shop paint the surround to match my silver streak mica.

I do not have a picture for this part, but I used long skinny bolts to and nuts to mount the grill. I bolted them on the grill where I wanted them and then used some gel epoxy to attach them to the grill surround.

here is the finished product


and some shots on the truck, I will get some full shots of the truck in the future.











I am very happy with the way it turned out and wouldn't have it any other way. You can use my signature to compare for yourselves.

 

ughh photobucket really does kill the quality of my pics maybe when I get some free time I will upload them on to here.

 

Very clean job.. Nice choice by color-matching the grille surround.

 

Pardon my ignorance. What exactly is 'satoshi' ? Is it because it's home made or the type of grill ?

Very nice work btw!

 

Nice! Are you going to put the "TOYOTA" lettering on there too?

 

Satoshi mod: http://4runners.org/writeups/satoshi/index.html

 

Thank you. I would also put the "toyota" lettering on front, would look bad ass!!!

 

That's exactly the kind of metal I wanna use. Very nice job!

 

looks good man, wish i had the balls to do that mod

 

how did you mount the mesh to the grill?any pics?

 

Good job! How much did the paint shop charge you?

 

After seeing your write up and another one last week, makes me not so afraid to tackle mine now.

Looks awesome by the way.

 

Sweet mod, looks great

 

looks great. +1 for what the paint job cost on it... also, maybe a link to the grille material you used? Cant wait to do mine too

 

how did you mount the mesh to the grill?

 

Nice work! I liked the mesh you used.

 

Looks great brotha!!! Good job!!

 

hi

do you have the procedure to mount the grill abd what part you use

thanks

 

Looks good!