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Old 08-17-2006, 08:58 AM   #1
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Mounting Coroplast for a Grill Block

Now, I'm going to pull my bumper today so I can respray the black portion of it to make it look spiffy, and I picking I'll grill it up as well. What do people usually use to mount the block on there? Is there anything that perhaps will not require mutilating my bumper?
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Old 08-17-2006, 09:45 AM   #2
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No mutilation, eh? Dan used screws on the Del Camino. Looks like basjoos siliconed his on

I ended up making a kind of bra for mine to avoid that same vexing issue.
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Old 08-17-2006, 09:48 AM   #3
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I've never seen pictures of your bra, but I'm prollygoing to hot glue or something. I imagine it'll peel off...
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Old 08-17-2006, 09:55 AM   #4
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I just made it recently. It's not totally finished. When it is, I'll post some.

It's just a rectangle of black vinyl-ish material with a couple of square holes to let the air through where I want it. Works for me since my car's black. Keeps the bugs & stones off the paint too, I guess.
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I made a piece of angled sheet metal and attached that to the bumper skin from the underside. I then screwed the coroplast to the angle pieces. For the bottom I used mastic tape. Mastic tape is a roofing product its sticky and stays malible, kind of like silly putty but stickier. Its also sold under the brand "tacky tape".

By doing it this way when I remove the block no screw holes will be visible.
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I've figured out how I'll do it. Was about halfway through when I punctured my knee with the knife and went to the doctor's. I'll finish up tonight when I can walk around and stuff,
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I've figured out how I'll do it. Was about halfway through when I punctured my knee with the knife and went to the doctor's. I'll finish up tonight when I can walk around and stuff,
Got any pics of this? You know we want to see.
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Nah, that's okee. If you want to enjoy some good pain you can stab yourself.
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I attached my plastic grill block on with zip ties, and black pollyurithane roofing calk, the little bits are 100% held on with roofing calk, and the larger one is zip ties with roofing calk to make it look seamless, I caught a co-worker looking at it one day, baffled at how good it looked.
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I still have to do the aero mods on my civic.

It will take hours to make a belly pan and the grill block.
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