Dropped my billet grille off at the powder coating shop today. I'll post pics when it's installed. Very pleased with the initial quality.

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1999 Black Roush-Lowered Lightning - w/Super Chip (YEEEOW!), JBA Headers, Power Surge air kit, AAD Cobra hood, carbon fiber dash kit, CD Changer, Towing Package,Grey Rhino, clear corner lenses.
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[This message has been edited by sixpipes (edited 01-29-2000).]

 

Man Sixpipes! What are you trying to do to me? First the carbon fiber kit, now this? I'm trying to save up for the Bassani kit, but my money is just flowing right out of my pockets!

Mike

 

Not that impressed by the pics of billet grills I have seen on the web, but I saw one in the metal, so to speak, on an f-150 yesterday, and it looked way cooler than the pics. I can just feel a giant vacuum cleaner suctioning all the money out of my wallet, once I get my new baby.

 

Hi 6, you going to powdercoat it the factory "grack" color? or is it "bley"

[This message has been edited by MRBBQMAN (edited 01-29-2000).]

 

I think the color is "bleyver". I actually had another option, but I don't think the "sileyack" color was as close to factory.

[This message has been edited by sixpipes (edited 01-29-2000).]

 

Bley-ver? as soon as you posted that, someone from FOMOCO patented that color as an exclusive for the 2002 "MYSTIC BLEYVER" lightning, a $1000.00 option over the plain jane blacks and silvers. depending on the angle and whose eyes are looking at it, it can appear, blackish, grayish, silverish at the same time. viewers will actually go to blows over it's actual color.

 

Sounds pretty darn attractive when you put it that way...


I'M IN!.

 

Very cool BBQ, very cool......
LOL!!

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99 Lightning, Black, CD
changer, Downey SST tonneau, Class 3 hitch, Ford bed mat, tinted back window,clear headlight/ foglight lenses, Pioneer speakers, Airaid airbox, clear corner lenses (thanks Roger L!) Autometer boost gauge
DOB: 4-28-99, ordered 12-27-98
Build #694
My one really cool toy..
(except my Mercury Parklane "hobby")

SVT RULES THE ROAD!!!!!

 

I had a local body shop spray the grill with black clearcoat. Man, if you've got a black truck thats the way to go...

 

Powder-coated "bleyver" Trendz billet grille.
Installed the top piece last Saturday while I was in Houston. Hopefully will have time to install the bottom next weekend. More photos to come.

[This message has been edited by sixpipes (edited 02-07-2000).]

 

6,

that looks sweet but, dad wont do it to the Black Beast

 

That Bleyver(R) (a registered trademark of the Ford Motor Co. Dearborn Michigan) grill really looks sweet, and congrats on your 1/4 run, a great time. are you able to salvage the original grills for re-installation for a trade in. i like this truck so much, i plan on trading often, to get as many as i can b4 they stop making them, and i want to take a much of my add on stuff as a can with me.

 

BBQ -

Stock grille is easy to put back in. Only blemishes will be two 1/8" holes in the lower support brackets about 2 inches behind the grille (never see them unless you know where to look).

 

Sixpipes,

Once again another beautiful modification. How is the quality of the powdercoat (I remember previous post about it peeling?), and do you think I could order the grille and have it powdercoated by your guy?

Thanks,
Mike

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99.5 Black Lightning
PowerSurge Cone Filter
JBA Jet-Hot coated headers
Flowmaster muffler
So-Cal Lowering Kit; Cal-Tracs traction bars
Watter Wetter
Lo-Jack

 

Brimstone -

The guy i used in Dallas does exellent work and only charged me $60 for both pieces. I dare say there are a number of good quality powder coating shops in your area. California is where it all started. As far as the toughness of the coating; I had the lower forks coated on my Valkyrie and they have withstood the beating you might expect being on the front end of a motorcycle. The coating is actually more like a very hard rubber finish. Very durable.