Ok, i have a few roush grills comin my way this week. i was just curious if anyone put lights behind their roush grills, im wondering if the bars are too thick, for the light to come through


like this guy here :

 

doesnt FX4life have similar lights behind his billet grille?

 

i believe so, but it seems like the billets bars and smaller and thiner, you kno ?

im talkin about for the roush grill , a lil thicker bars

 

yeah i hear ya, but if you added up all the little bars im sure it adds up more "blacked out lighting" than the roush

 

That's right, the Roush chrome over plastic grille has more space between the bars than a billet grille does.

 

thanks guys

so is that a yay or a nay ?

 

be advised that if its a plastic grille the lights might get a bit hot for them. if i run mine for a while just sitting there, my stainless steel grille gets hot really quick!

 

I would also worry about it getting too hot and melting. It would depend alot on the lights you want to put behind them. I would think moving you would be okay, maybe? sitting still mine with the new 100w bulbs get flippin hot fast.

the setup posted is also very similar to mine, id recommend solid aluminum though. If you can find my old gallery (7787) i have alot of pics in there. There is a better mounting place lower down by the tranny cooler for lower supports, and like the one pictured you should use the sensor/thermometer mount hole for suppor in the middle, after i did that it took alot of the "vibration" out of the lights. Most people just mount from the bottom though.

 

yeah that would pretty much be the only concern, i guess its a no go,

unless i find like a low wattage bulb or sumthin right?

 

Or maybe HIDs?

 

Hids in the lights behind the grill ?

hmmm, that would look sweet

i already have hid heads/fogs lol

 

HID's would also get pretty hot. If you mounted them farther back than everyone else, and watched how you used them i would think there should be no problem? You could try something like a 55w to start with. I just put 100w bulbs in my hella 500's that came with 55w bulbs.

 

https://www.f150online.com/galleries....cfm?gnum=7787 the link to his gallery, sickest red truck on the site.

 

thanks for the link, Atom

FX4life those suckers are huge, they gotta be bigger than 6in

 

I really want to do this to my truck, i just dont know if or how to mount them ebhind the grill.....if i cant do it how much money would you guess for a shop to figure something out