As I stated in my last posting I did the Photoshop, but I will not post it on the forum, we are not buying Photoshop. We should all wait until the grille is mounted on the front-end of a Crossfire... no one should do the Photoshop and no one should post a Photoshop image on the thread, the grille shown is not a finished product...

I run on sometimes about things but that is whom I am. Let me say thanks to all who have put time and effort into making this grille idea a reality, but I am still standing by for the final out come... With that said I am unsure if I have the desire to mod my Crossfire into a totally different car, this grille replacement looks to be more then just a grille replacement. I will not post on this thread again until the end results are shown... we should all do the same... hooah

 

Well done about 5 or 6 photoshops and I know this is going to look kick ***. Only request is move the grill a little toward the front of the openings. I won't post so that you guys can see CTDs photos with it on a car. Its only fair.

 

According to Tino's post from early Thursday morning (#105), we should have some pix later today (I hope...).

 

I agree with Mayaman, the mesh should come out from the mid-section of the center spine so as not to look real deep!

 

That is exactly what I mean. It should come from middle of center spine and kind of "bubble" at its center of mesh towards the grill in all directions. In other words the center of the mesh should be its highest point and just slight taper to the grill.

 

I agree that the grill should bow and form the outer dimensions of the grill we have now. Does anyone else think this thing is taking wayyyyyy too long? A member tipped me to a shop months ago and they said they'd build anything I wanted. I never got a price. I'm pretty sure they'd actually build and sell it though.

 

Sort of like this, maybe?

 

LOL I love when people don't know what they are talking about, I agree maxxm. Sheesh, this is not easy to do. Why do you think all these boutique places charge so much. Give them some slack because they don't have to do **** for us.

 

You bet. After all, we don't want this, do we?

 

On pages 12 and 13 of this thread, people have posted pics...but all that I get are x's (except for maxxm's post on that horribly ugly benz grill)! What to do? I really want to see pics of this item on a Crossfire (of course I am patiently waiting...but excited at the same time)!

 

here is a picture of the painted grille. we will try to fit the grille today.

tino

 

Looks good Tino. Keep us posted and thanks again for all your hard work.

 

Looks good! I wonder if they will have an option for different patterns/style of mesh inserts...

 

can we get a quick outline of the mounting instructions for that awesome grill?

 

Hey Tino, that mesh and the lower grills are Chrome, right? Of course they must be to look right.

 

And perhaps an option to have the entire upper section chromed if the frame is not otherwise available in body colors...

 

Thanks Tino, will be very interested to see it fitted in a Crossfire. It's gonna be interesting to see how folks treat the grill surround, body color, flat metallic, chrome, other?

I still need see it to understand what to do.

 

Great job Tino and CTD-Germany!
Can't wait to see that mounted in my XFIREX!

 

I also am not interested in trying to find someone to paint as much fiberglass as the mockup appears to have. The paint shops around here will charge me as much as the grill to paint it. In the realm of not worth the bother to them. And if it is not a quality paint job then it won't match (I have black and the sheen must be the same).

Plus I thought this was going to look like the original photoshop that tino put out which looks like the Bentley coupe. Now the last mock-up looks like a pontiac GTO. I thought it was going to carry the center spine look in the grille as a chromed center strut. I wanted my crossfire to look different as in "rare bentley" not like another pontiac going down the street. We have one that looks like a minivan now. I don't want one that looks like a GTO.
Tino talked about moving the mesh forward, but I haven't seen any pic of that. all I have seen is the one with the grille attached to the back of the fiberglass frame. I will wait until I see the grille on a car, but given the cost and hassle of painting the frame I an not so sure now.

 

The grill will look different from angles. I hope we get some pics today. I wish they would have left it white on a white car, you can see so much detail. Thanks CTD.