Possible Honeycomb grille material.

[Bowman9]

I was watching "Motorweek" on the Speed channel and they were showing the new 2006 Mazda Miata MX5.
The new MX5 has a lower grille opening that is covered with a plastic Honeycomb without emblems.
The question is how large is this the new grille and is it enough material for our needs.

I also noticed that Kmart shopping carts are made of a plastic Honeycomb design.

[cyclopsram]

Oh no!! possible ricer parts on a Marauder...can't be.... RAM

[Bowman9]

I found this honeycomb style grille from a 1965 Mustang.
Does anyone have access to a '65 mustang to tell us if grille is big enough for or needs to create a Marauder honeycomb grille?

http://www.mustangsplus.com/Merchant...ry_Code=grille

[Sully008]

Well, here's a some quick Photoshops of the honeycomb material with and without a badge. Hopefully it'll give you an idea of how the material will look.

[hitchhiker]

Well, here's a some quick Photoshops of the honeycomb material with and without a badge. Hopefully it'll give you an idea of how the material will look.

Dayam,

That would have looked nice on our cars!

[Bowman9]

I like the one without the badge.
I guess no one has access to a 65-66 mustang to tell us the size of the grille opening???

[Rider90]

I guess the Crown Vic guys go for the Marauder look, and the Marauders go for the Crown Vic look It looks okay

[merc6]

yep the other forums are swapping to our stuff Mazda 6 and the MPV also have that plastic mesh but I doubt it would be enough. Didn't we alerady go over that if he had 1 mm and to cvpi grills he wasn't able to do it?

[Bowman9]

...Didn't we alerady go over that if he had 1 mm and to cvpi grills he wasn't able to do it?

You are correct that the CVPI grille will not work.

But Marauder owners that would like to have a "Honeycomb" style grille have still been looking for other options, but have not been able to find the correct "size" and "quality" of material to do the job.
We are still looking for different sources, that is why I suggested the 1965 mustang grille and the 2006 MX5 grille as a possible solution, but I do not know the dimensions of these grilles.

The Marauder grille opening (if you were to cut all the bars out) is approx. 30" by 8.5". So we would need honeycomb material slightly larger to work with. We are trying to stay away from the "Ricer" "Home Depot" building material solution.

[MarauderMark]

I guess the Crown Vic guys go for the Marauder look, and the Marauders go for the Crown Vic look It looks okay

Yes its a weird thing.

[Hotrauder]

J. C. Whitney catalog arrived yesterday and there are several different grill insert material offerings in it. Check it out. Find the one you want and contact the Nutty Guy. Zack. He can do anything, better than you will believe. Dennis

[RoNiN77]

I think that Ford has a honeycomb grill already in production for the police interceptors...

[Bowman9]

I believe the new VW GTI Mark V's lower grille opening is a honeycomb material. We'll just need to find out if it is large enough for our needs.

It's in the commercial with the tag line "Pretuned by German engineers".

[Black_Noise]

if you need honeycomb material i have some from work... i was thinking of making a grille myself but its really flimsy hard plastic black honeycomb we use to wrap around coils at work, just didnt want to figure out how to keep it tight without screws showing somehow, can post pics if u want

[Dan]

Our grills are molded as part of a frame. I think that a flimsy honey comb material could be mounted inside of that.

Honeycomb materials comes in different thicknesses which would reduce flimsyness.

The CVPI honeycombs are not symmetrical honeycombs. they are quite a bit longer than they are wide.

The CVPI honeycomb grill is also one piece molded plastic with the honeycomb frame.

Honeycombed metal is something that machinists might work with and have sourcing for. Think industrial materials. If you want to go in the direction of metal it might be a good idea to start with that industry.

A lot of the honeycomb that I have seen is made from aluminum. Good for weight but bad for color. Again, a machinist might know how to blacken aluminum.

I have thought about doing this and the best way that I know of would be to buy and extra grill and bring it to your local machinist and give it to him as a project.

One last thing. The shadow created by the grill trim ring would probably very easily conceal any fasteners used if the fasteners were a dull black.

I hope this helps.

Dan