Nonfunctional upper grill
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Nonfunctional upper grill
Washington requires a front license plate. Once I noticed that the colling system is supported by the lower grill, I removed the Scion emblem and bent the plate to the shape of the grill, and mounted it in the center. The plate covers 1/3 of the grill with no effect on cooling. I'm looking to build a cover for the whole upper grill, as I found out the grill is useless for cooling. This was tested last week when I spent an hour in stop & go traffic in 99 degree weather. The temp guage did not move at all.
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When you're stopped, neither grill does much for cooling, they only function when you're moving. When you're moving, air enters the upper grill and is pushed downwards to the radiator (the upper plate pretty much blocks air flow to the engine). The purpose of the upper grill as to assist in cooling the radiator, if you block it, it will hurt cooling capacity.
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Actually making something like the stock grill out of fiberglass would be a royal pain to do. it'd be easier to take two stock grills, cut the emblem area out of one, and graft parts out of the other one with plastic weld and sand and paint it.
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Ha! That's nothing compared to the back tailgate garnish! After I wash the box, there's always those last couple drops of water that come from that area or from the license plate lights. Ugh. So annoying.
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if there was a like button on here like facebook has, this would be the comment for it
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It does look like a button in that shot. I'll have to think about putting something on it. Actually in person it doesn't stand out as much, just turned out that way in the shot.
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