I just bought a grill from someone parting out a 97 SSE.
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It arrived yesterday morning in pretty good condition. here is a pic of what it looked like when I got it.

I polished up the emblem and prepped it for paint, scuffing it with 200 grit sandpaper. hit it real light with some primer and sanded it with 800 grit sandpaper (no pics of the primer coat).

This is after my first coat of paint.

I sanded it with 1500 grit after the paint dried and got to this:


This is a pic of the old grill just before I removed it. The tab on the right side was snapped so that is why I decided to replace it.


The 2 grills for comparison, the original is on the bottom.


And this is after clearcoating it and installing it, fits perfectly


This is probably the best $30 mod I have done so far. Now I just need the rest of a SSEi to match the grill

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2007 Grand Prix GT L32
Poly endlinks, swaybar bushings and dogbone bushings. Drop in high flow air filter. Its a start!

2009 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS (project BlackSheep) Bone stock for now, 5 spd and fun as hell! (Gf's Ride)
1996 Pontiac Bonneville SE Gone but not forgotten
1997 Dodge Ram Sport 4x4 5.9L The Beast!

sweet job Lee, but you forgot to touch up your eyebrows

now get some full car pics and whore it up.

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Jim

Looks great!! X2 on whoreage!!

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Bye Bye:

RIP sandrock

My car is a tired old thing, she needs more love before I do some whorage.

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2007 Grand Prix GT L32
Poly endlinks, swaybar bushings and dogbone bushings. Drop in high flow air filter. Its a start!

2009 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS (project BlackSheep) Bone stock for now, 5 spd and fun as hell! (Gf's Ride)
1996 Pontiac Bonneville SE Gone but not forgotten
1997 Dodge Ram Sport 4x4 5.9L The Beast!

looks good! i definitely like the black emblem better

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-Matt

Nicely done! What's the paint that you used?

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94 SSEi - Project car
99 SLE - Tuned with different parts and such
85 Porsche 944 - Daily driver
68 Chevy C-10 - Free truck! Needs parts.

Nice, looks good!

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'93 SSE "Guinevere" Mods: Intense FWI | 180º T-Stat | Flowmaster 80 | Magnaflow Cat | Projector Fogs | Clear Corners | ES Poly End Links
'01 SSEi "Chloe" Mods: Intense FWI | GenV | WBS Intercooled | 3.2 MPS | 1.9 YT Rockers | SSAC Headers | N* TB | TEP Trans | 3.29 FDR | Torsen LSD
DTM Tuned | Dual AeroForce | Solid Mounts | 255 Walbro Pump | Fuel Logs | GXP STB & Sway Bars | CSS Lowering Springs | GXP Brakes | Disabled DRL
Magnaflow Mufflers | Magnaflow Cat | GXP Seats & Trim | 35 % Tint | Cleared & Tinted Tails | repinS Retrofited Morimoto Mini H1 | 19" GT500 Wheels
Achievements: Guinevere - 264k mi | 16.27 @ 84.10mph | March '11 COTM :: Chloe - 223k mi | 13.85 @ 102mph | January '09 COTM

Rad the one paint I used was Dulicolor DE1616 Pontiac Metallic Blue, The other was Duplicolor silver. I did a base coat of silver then a light coat of DE1616 sanded then repeat.
toped it off with clearcoat. The reason for (blending) the 2 paint colors is that the DE1616 is about 2 shades darker than the actual color of my car. My paint RPO code is U129A (silver teal metallic) and a rattle can of that color goes for $20.00 so I took the cheap way out... its only a temp fix anyhow.

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2007 Grand Prix GT L32
Poly endlinks, swaybar bushings and dogbone bushings. Drop in high flow air filter. Its a start!

2009 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS (project BlackSheep) Bone stock for now, 5 spd and fun as hell! (Gf's Ride)
1996 Pontiac Bonneville SE Gone but not forgotten
1997 Dodge Ram Sport 4x4 5.9L The Beast!

Whether it's permanent or not, it looks excellent. You did a great job.

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94 SSEi - Project car
99 SLE - Tuned with different parts and such
85 Porsche 944 - Daily driver
68 Chevy C-10 - Free truck! Needs parts.

A subtle difference but it looks good. only something a Bonneville person would notice. I didnt know there was a difference til now.

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~~~Freddy~~~ Wyotech Graduate, Future RCSAMS student
Pandora 1988 Lesabre T-Type 259000 miles
Darlington 1987 Lesabre T-Type 115000 miles
Cream Puff 1988 Lesabre T-Type 194500 miles