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Old Mar 7, 2007 | 04:13 PM
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Default Impromptu drifting leads to customization opportunity

So, last Friday I ended up doing a little unplanned Tokyo Drift move on 494
( Sorry no pics as of yet). As I slid the nose along the overpass columns, I packed so much snow and ice chunks into the lower grill that it popped all the connection points for the upper grille. When I got to work, and went to clean it all out, the upper grille just fell off. the lower Stainless insert I had made is mangled beyond recognition.... the bumper seems fine, but the inner well plastic is messed up a little.

Never one to pass on a silver lining, I ordered a full BILLET upper and lower grille for the car @ $165.00, much less than replacing the grilles with OEM... should be here in a week. I'll have befores and afters then.

I am looking for driverside inner well plastic ( USED ), anybody found a resource locally that has a scrapped Scion or two?
Old Mar 7, 2007 | 05:52 PM
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wow man... glad your alrite! cant wait to see pics!
Old Mar 8, 2007 | 12:02 AM
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ive done tokyo drifting on 94 when the last storm was just starting. it was insane
Old Mar 8, 2007 | 04:57 PM
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just keep the billit clean cuz the road salt will put a white haze on them just like on old blue
Old Mar 13, 2007 | 05:03 PM
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Ok, so custom appears to have ment I do custom. The upper grille is in, with slight modification, but the lower is another story. I have found that I need to manufacture some sort of attachments points. I have also found the I did crack the lower valance left of center. Once I find the archive with my Photobucket creds, I'll post pics..
Old Mar 26, 2007 | 12:16 AM
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Default ******************** TOP GRILLE PIC ***************

so... half done... work, and health have slowed this project down greatly[img].

more when the bottom is done[/img]
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