Lower Grill Removal?

[USAF EP3]

Not taking my car to him anymore not really happy with his work and his communication

Plus from the sounds of it I think I am going to cut it out for my intercooler

If you're going to cut it out, take your time with it. I was a bit impatient with mine and was getting frustrated with it mainly because I was doing it on a worknight after I got home. As you can see above it came out okay, but I could've done a better job with it if I had slowed down and been more precise.

[hyu]

I cut mine out because I used to have fog lights when I was N/A. When I installed the intercooler it pushed the bumper out because the charge piping was in the way where the foglights needed to be.

So after I decided I didn't want gaping oblong holes in my lower mesh I took a exacto knife and plaster saw to it and came out with this:



I don't care about what people think how my car looks, I get bashed on the mud flaps from time to time as well. To me, fuck 'em it's my car, my style, and it all functions.

Side and rear pics of the car? I'm getting the same styled mudflaps because I'm tired of the water spray on my white car. Which brand did you go with?

[USAF EP3]

Side and rear pics of the car? I'm getting the same styled mudflaps because I'm tired of the water spray on my white car. Which brand did you go with?

I'll PM it to you, I don't want the thread to go off topic.

[USAF EP3]

I took another picture today of the front of my car for you guys:

[nolaEp3]

Thanks a million! I will be doing this as soon as it stops storming here and will post pics.

[ebizzle361]

i did this as well due to my charge pipes making the bumper flex and not line up straight. i think it looks good actually.. but just like anyone else, thats just my opinion. i say do it! then post pics of yours.

[nolaEp3]

I also removed the Si badge and will be removing the pinstripe hopefully tomorrow along with the civic and Si rear badge. Took the fogs off too, looks cleaner I think plus they didn't do much to help the tsx/depo retrofit. Please excuse the filthy engine bay, its next on the list of things to do.

Oh and that's an Italian flag hanging if any of you were wondering.

[USAF EP3]

Lol..that looks so much better than mine. Your intercooler fills out more than mine.

How are you liking it?

[nolaEp3]

I like it a lot better. Yours looks pretty similar to mine I think.

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[nolaEp3]

What intercooler do you have?

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[USAF EP3]

It's considered an "eBay" brand. EMUSA kit, look in the Turbo section, AKEP has a thread chock-full of info about the brand.

I'm using a GReddy kit, I just didn't want to pay $800+ for a GReddy intercooler and used the EMUSA intercooler kit with a little modification to make it work.