BottleRocket

I was wondering if anyone has cut their entire grille out of an LS1 Camaro. Im not talking about just taking the factory plastic grille out, but cutting the center part that says "CAMARO" behind the factory grille out so it is just a wide hole. Im not doing it just for ***** and giggles, I want to get more air to my IC, and it looks good on a Trans am, so i thought it would look good on a camaro, but I dont know.

superchannelkev

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might be a little too big of a hole... i have only seen a few people that chopped most of it out but not all

EVIL98Z

Don't Do It Dude!!!! My Buddy Did It To His 99z And It Looks Like ***! Trust Me. He Put A Billet Over It And U Can't Really Tell Now. I Personally Wouldn't Advise It, However I Do Prefer "go Fast, Over Go Pretty." So I Guess It Is Ur Call And What I Said Just Totally Led U In A Circle. So We Just Got Nowhere.

StoleIt

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ive seen some people do it. looks like the car is really happy, really evil smiley face...or a catfish, depends what u see.

attached is one i like (not my car)

badtexasZ28

that is a fine front end on that car stoleit, who's is it and is it a one off or does someone make them?

BottleRocket

well what if i did exactly that. cut it out and put a billet grille over it? i already have a billet grille, that way it gets plenty of airflow and it still looks good

Diolar Magnum

that would look badass man. Max airflow and the billet grille to boot.

Brad

Zangel

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Here is mine:

Diolar Magnum

so so so nice

BitViper

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As in all things..its in the execution...

Zangle..it looks great!

I would even consider placing some rain gutter mesh behind the body facia to hide it a bit more but stil allow air to pass thru....and to gaurd aginst rocks..only takes one rock to ruin your day!

LS69TA

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Those are sweet..I kinda like the E-1 bumper here: http://www.firebirdevolution.net/BODYKIT.html, if I had an intercooler that is..

StoleIt

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no idea, i posted a thread a while ago around here asking what people did to their front ends with FMIC's. I can tell by looking at it, its an SLP grille, the guy cut out the standard camaro grille behind it, and then cut out the lines into the slp grille. you know who of NON_SPONSOR q.m.p did something similar to his turbo z28.

StoleIt

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you thinking about painting whats left of the stock grille black or leaving it that way? looks good though.

VSGLS1

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Is there such a thing as too much surface area of an intercooler exposed to direct airflow? Thought I heard something about this with Supras...Can anyone confirm. My front end will sport a FMIC one day.

BottleRocket

wouldnt see why. but any info would be helpful

StoleIt

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only way i could see to much exposed FMIC would be all the air pushing against it bending the mounts or something. we have a pointy nose on our car, cut it out and replace it with a flat peice...you get the idea. supra's basically just stick their FMIC right out their, so they are getting a smaller version of mack truck action due to the flat nose. i dont think that could ever really be much of a problem...but thats the only problem i could see stemming from it.

USMARINE1108

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I like the way that looks, but I'd be too worried about a rock taking out my radiator. I'm not a big fan of billit grills, so I'd put some black plastic gutter guard mesh behind the holes.