SATOSHI MOD --- 1st gen. write-up (lots of pics)

Looks good man!

 

Looks very cool, can't wait to see it completed
Good luck and really nice work

 

i dont think so man. All the bondo is dry and is awaiting to be painted tomorrow.

the only thing ill be missing is the mesh grill, which is scheduled to be arriving at my door on June 4th!!!!

thanks man! more pics on the way

 

Lookin good man, to anyone looking to do this it's a very easy project to just dive into as log a you take your time and pay attention to detail... And for the recor idiot 7" lights behind mine if anyone was wondering about what size will fit

 

YES!!!

i was going to add a "tip list" at the end of the build of all the things i wish i knew! haha

 

holy tits i cant wait for this to be over with.

almost done.

painting tomorrow and then i wait for my mesh to get here!!!

 

Looks good so far. Can't wait to see the finished product.

 

hey man you and me both...

go figure that the grill wont be here until the 4th or the 5th...

gotta wait 4 more days

oh well!

 

Hey you probably already know this, but you can just dremel the whole grille surround where those plastic welds are an completely separate the grille. Makes it a lot easier to do bondo and cut out the bars.

Looks good by the way

 

yea i saw that in some other builds but i didn't want to bother with gluing it back together

 

Looking good, but you do realize you could have saved yourself HOURS of labor by using Bondo body filler and not have to mess with any fiberglass or resin right? The results would are also much cleaner and not so messy.

 

i had no idea of this...

lol iv never done anything like this so i followed others

 

i suppose i spent about 5 hours total applying both the fiberglass and bondo. i did about 3 coats of bondo

 

^Oh well you live and learn. When I did mine I used Bondo body filler and Bondo plastic hardener applied three coats wet to dry in about an hour.


Also if you use a Plastic primer (it's a plastic adhesive promoter and primer in an aerosol can) you could have saved your poor hands from having to sand the grill surround lol...

 

yea 5 hours was an obvious sign of a noob

 

both got the job done!

 

When i originally did my grill i used fiberglass and bondo cause i knew id be wheeling it and form it twisting and tweaking it did crack it up and i figured had i just used bondo alone it wouldnt have been quite as strong as the fiberglass. I did a different route with the fiberglass than you did with using a few layers in hopes of it being somewhat stronger.

On the second grill i did for another member i just did the bondo route but she doesnt wheel very often and its been about 6 months on hers and nothing has happend so i gues either way isnt to bad. The second time around i think it took me about 3 hrs total working time from start to finish over the course of 2 days

She opted to keep it chrome for now and come back to color match down the road, but i also did the triangles on hers and really wished i had done it on mine cause it looks really good when its all done!!

edit: sorry for the crappy pics, used my phone at the time







Oh and here are 7" lights behind the grill for anyone wondering...