Dunder Small Hole Grill Installed - Page 2

miketan · 09-25-2006, 08:12 PM

Yep, I have the Dunder Dan grill as well and I'm very pleased with it. I've received many compliments on it. It really jazzes up the front-end appearance on the XE's with black/body-colored grills like mine.

Before I put mine on though, I decided to put some black heat-shrink tubing over the plated studs in the back so you can't see them when looking through the grill. Also, I applied a small piece of black door edge molding to the lower edge of the bottom center grill to keep it from rubbing up against the textured plastic piece inside the bumper.

22BUKS · 09-25-2006, 08:24 PM

I really like the grill! It completely changes the front end.

Good ideas miketan!

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Originally Posted by miketan

Before I put mine on though, I decided to put some black heat-shrink tubing over the plated studs in the back so you can't see them when looking through the grill. Also, I applied a small piece of black door edge molding to the lower edge of the bottom center grill to keep it from rubbing up against the textured plastic piece inside the bumper.

Hector Bravo · 09-26-2006, 04:52 AM

Wow, that looks very nice. The before/after pictures really point out the difference.

Hector

Hector Bravo · 09-26-2006, 04:55 AM

<<<[i]I have the same one they are super easy to put on I did mine myself and I am a girl >>>

That is because girls actually take the time to read the directions.

Hector

Elbo · 09-26-2006, 05:13 PM

Nice, but has anyone done radiator temp tests with these? Might not get that hot where your at, but in Texas.. I'd be afraid, I might encourage overheating..

TMonte · 09-26-2006, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Elbo

Nice, but has anyone done radiator temp tests with these? Might not get that hot where your at, but in Texas.. I'd be afraid, I might encourage overheating..

Doubt that anyone has tested that, and like I said, we'll see what happens next Summer. The past couple days have topped out around 70°, and no noticeable difference...not that I expected one. And FYI, we have plenty of 90 degree days here with high humidity (85%+) in the summer. This summer we had a few near 100, and since it's very densely populated, traffic gridlocks are killers too. Still not Texas' consistent heat, but we do get it (plus temps in the teens and snow in the winter - but to that point, it's no Buffalo either

).

If I do run into any problems, I'll pull the lower grill, yet I doubt it will cause a problem. Maybe if you're sitting 3 feet from the car in front of you for 30 minutes in 100 degree heat, while the asphalt is at 140 and ready to buckle - but hopefully that doesn't happen.

By the way, I have a calibrated thermocouple based probe, so technically I could run a wire out to the front of the rad and log some data from inside the cab. It'll have to wait until next year though.

Tom