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rad grilles
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:40 am
by zoidberg
Has anyone made there own grilles for the rads?
Theres some on flea bay put £40 for three bits of mesh seems a little bit much.
Re: rad grilles
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 5:50 pm
by blinkey501
zoidberg wrote:Has anyone made there own grilles for the rads?
Theres some on flea bay put £40 for three bits of mesh seems a little bit much.
Go to wicks or B@Q. Cut your own mesh and cut. Go to a scrap yard and ask for a door seal. They should give you it for nothing.
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 5:53 pm
by zoidberg
Ahh, I like you're thinking. You got any pics of the ones you made?
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:32 pm
by Falco Frank
B&Q Stainless mesh, make templates from paper, wrap into shape and tie into place with wire - job done...
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:00 pm
by zoidberg
Looks smart. Will get meself to B&Q
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 12:54 am
by Viking
What Zoid said - looks very smart!
Shouldn't be too hard to do, either. Just have to find the mesh.
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:53 pm
by fatboy
Tip.
make sure that the mesh stands 'off' a little from the rad and oil cooler, if it is flush fitting then debris can pas through the mesh and into the fins of said cooling component ( been there )
The smaller the mesh size the better protection, a 5mm gap between rad and mesh will be good.
Falc oil coolers are bloody expensive and there is no universal type replacement
rads...
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:27 pm
by GregD-UK
Hi all,
Delkevic supply shiney new one's for £99.99 each :)
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 2:21 pm
by zoidberg
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 2:23 pm
by zoidberg
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:49 pm
by plasticpig72
I think the first one looks better myself, but it's not the right grade. The other issue they are both woven meshes which means they will be hard to bend without the mesh distorting. I have tried before on another project.
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:26 pm
by fatboy
You would need a folding machine or press to shape both of those, no chance of doing it by hand.
have a look for perforated stainless sheet,which you can bend with a vice and straight edges,
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 7:08 pm
by falcomunky
Got a sheet of gold mesh via Ebay a few years back.
Did the same way as iconic944ss pic shows. Dead easy job once the plastics are off.
I recall it was a universal car front grille (cut/bend/glue to fit) I got for about £20.
Dont Halfords still do sheets of the stuff?
