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Old Jan 21, 2008 | 05:59 PM
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just finished this on sunday

watcha think??......

you all should be proud that i searched the site front and back for fmic pics with the cut out grill before i started!!!!!!

you all paved the way for me!!!!!!

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Old Jan 21, 2008 | 06:04 PM
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looks great, very clean. congrats
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Old Jan 21, 2008 | 06:10 PM
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Looks awesome.
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Old Jan 21, 2008 | 06:15 PM
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Old Jan 21, 2008 | 06:18 PM
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That looks good
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Old Jan 21, 2008 | 06:30 PM
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Old Jan 21, 2008 | 06:35 PM
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very nice man! people actually still use the search .
congrats man!
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Sweet, what did you use to cut it?
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Old Jan 22, 2008 | 12:57 AM
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Nice. My intercooler is going to be here any day now... I was leaning towards just doing the big gapping mouth look. This makes me think twice though.
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Old Jan 22, 2008 | 08:41 AM
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Nice. I like you you modified the front grill

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Old Jan 22, 2008 | 09:32 AM
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looks good
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Old Jan 22, 2008 | 09:49 AM
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nice! looks clean.
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Old Jan 22, 2008 | 10:05 AM
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Looks good!
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Old Jan 22, 2008 | 10:21 AM
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Very nice! Best of both worlds....you can see the intercooler and the grill! Time to cut out the bird on the front license plate
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Old Jan 22, 2008 | 10:27 AM
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Like it alot.If i was going FMIC thats what it would look like.
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Old Jan 22, 2008 | 12:36 PM
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What did you cut the grill with?
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Old Jan 22, 2008 | 12:47 PM
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do you have any upclose pics of how you mounted the IC, brackets, etc??
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looks good but I think it would look much better with a black mesh grill behind it
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Old Jan 22, 2008 | 01:32 PM
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looks nice and yeah it needs a black mesh behind the center portion, the outsides can be bare if ytou want
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