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Old 05-27-12, 10:28 PM
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Painted the front grill
So I haven't done anything to my Rx7 in quite a while (horray broke college student). But home for the summer and I wanted to change up the look, so I decided to black out the grill on the front bumper. Originally I was going to cut it out (still might), but the black kind of "deletes" it. Let me know what you think.

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I plan to take some better pictures tomorrow, see how it looks in the daylight. I also what to get a lip so it'll accent the gap better, thinking S5 TII or Shine.
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paint that black trim lip on the bottom to white. =)
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Old 05-27-12, 11:16 PM
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paint that black trim lip on the bottom to white. =)
Maybe, but I really want a proper lip. I need to find a matching paint first.
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That's how my white gtu is, black grill and black ms lip I love it
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Looks good mate.
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its actually supposed to be black like that
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Old 05-28-12, 04:28 PM
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pretty sure the vertical ribs were painted from the factory but not the horizontal.
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Thanks for all the comments. I'm glad I did this. I think a lip will really set it off.

And I never knew about how it was supposed to look.
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S4 the verticals had black molded ABS caps to make them black, S5 it was all black.

Nice job bringing it back to stock!



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It looks so much better. I was S4 originally and I got S5 bumpers and had no idea they were supposed to be black in the center. Glad I did this.
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Turned out really good! Glad to see it come to pass, and that you decided not to cut it out.
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Doing this!
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Doing this!
I thought you were gonna be rocking a BN kit??!
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Originally Posted by Karack
pretty sure the vertical ribs were painted from the factory but not the horizontal.
Actually, the vertical ribs were black via snap on covers on the S4's. Pull of the covers, factory paint color.
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^ Yep. That is how my S4 GXL bumper was.

Looks good K!NCH.
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