Painting the grille

Came out awesome man, do you feel like doing a super white one.

 

Nicely done. I'm currently Satoshi-ing my grill. I am unsure whether to leave the chrome or paint it.

If I don't like the chrome, painting looks easy. Thanks!

 

Thanks guys! It definitely is pretty easy, but not easy that I'd do another one any time soon, lol... well, not for free any way
Besides, I think someone posted that the superwhite Duplicolor isnt an exact match.

 

That was me but I'm pretty picky... I ordered superwhite paint from paintscratch.com. I put a post up about their service and will put pictures up once I finally get around to painting my grille.

 

hey op where did you buy all your paint from????? cost for everything primer paint clear????

 

Got everything from pep boys. I bought a bunch of other stuff at the same time, so exact cost for this project i'm not sure, but it was about 45.00 +/- a couple dollars.

 

where did you paint this??? look like there wasnt any dust otr particles

 

Some of it was sprayed outside, and some inside the garage. If it wasnt windy, I did it on the lawn, but once the wind picked up the following day, moved it in to the garage.

 

wow any particles or rubbish in the paint hard to tell from the pics

 

where did you buy your duplicolor perfect match from

 

Looks great man, and thanks for the write up. I can't wait to do this!

 

Nothing in the paint. Just spray it in a controlled area or if outside, little to no wind.
Bought the paint from Pep Boys.

Thanks! Glad it was helpful

 

how did you get the area behind the grille to not be easily seen?
i can see through my new grille pretty easy and its the same as yours, any tips?

 

spray behind the grille with hi temp black spray paint

 

does it effect the radiator or oil filters or whatever is there?

 

There is a small shot in my Avatar.

CanTac

Hal

 

No ill effects. Just use a flat black paint and spray the ac lines, radiator or any other silver colored areas that you want black and hidden.

 

For anyone in socal, this place will do any color code mix and put it in a can for you. Its located in Mission Viejo, Ca

http://ocpaintstore.com/

 

So i was looking at Autozone yesterday. The toyota black dupli color is different from BSP isnt it? at 6 bucks a can i would much rather get this than 20 bucks a can from online.

 

check the paint code on the can against the paint code on your truck.