Raptorish grill insert.....

[Lane24]

My wife wants me to put a new grill in the Expedition, but she has one wish. That it be similar to the Raptor grill with the big meaty FORD written across it. Has anyone come across anything similar that would fit one of our trucks? Might be a dumb question, but it would look Badass.

 

[panda24619]

Buy a honeycomb grill and get to work making FORD and do a write up. It would be cool. Haha

 

[99 Expy]

You could always buy a new Raptor grill and fab it up yourself. I think it could be feasible with ambition and some time.

 

[walnuts4x4]

I was looking into it for a while but never came up with anything.... still trying to find a set of f250 mirrors to fab up

 

[dgray69]

have you priced the raptor grill? nuts buy a honeycomb and some stainless and pay to have the stainless die cut for the lettering

 

[JDMitchell]

I would be down for one if someone figures out a way to make that.

 

[panda24619]

I would be down for one if someone figures out a way to make that.

good thing for us lane has a 97 or 98... who knows. so the grill is the same! woo! haha

 

[walnuts4x4]

have you priced the raptor grill? nuts buy a honeycomb and some stainless and pay to have the stainless die cut for the lettering

I have a honeycomb grill... it is in my parents garage... lol but I want a real raptor grill....

 

[tallsville]

do you want just the grill or the whole raptor?

 

[Tigster]

Just buy the Raptor, take the grill and give me the truck

 

[walnuts4x4]

I want the whole raptor grill... but I would love the truck... but can't afford it... so I'll keep my expy... for now..lol

 

[Tigster]

I want a Raptor, but the car gets replaced before the truck.

 

[panda24619]

screw it ill make my expo better then any raptor ever! ill be able to go faster/slower then it ever could! and still be able to fit 8 and sleep in there if i wanna. haha

 

[tallsville]

panda not if you make it a true desert runner all the rear suspension would take up your sleeping room.

 

[GAINMOB]

U might want to holla at a welder...

 

[Petrini]

You would think there ought to be somewhere to buy that brick pattern cut out in some aluminum sheeting. That would be a good start. Just bend that slot through the middle about 3" wide or so and then cut the ford letters out of 1/4" aluminum flat bar. Paint it the gunmetal color if you want it to look like the raptor, but I personally think it would look sick as brushed aluminum.

 

[panda24619]

panda not if you make it a true desert runner all the rear suspension would take up your sleeping room.

not really. ive seen some expeditions done right. but have you ever herd of cantilever suspension? look it up! its cool! i want to either do that or make the shock hoops so there will still be people in the 3rd row. haha and i dont want a race truck. just a weekend prerunner. and if i ever get a shop ill sponcer a team and get my name out there. panda off road! we make things out of bamboo! haha maybe not the greatest thing to say.

 

[tallsville]

just paint all the roll bars to look like bamboo. you could have a 3rd row seat. but for one person.

 

[panda24619]

just paint all the roll bars to look like bamboo. you could have a 3rd row seat. but for one person.

i could do that. i have so many thoughts in my heads who knows what im going to do. haha

 

[babysilk]

Haha panda I have a feeling if we both follow up with our expys, we are going to end up with very similiar trucks.... Im fabbing a prerunner skidplate this weekend ill post pics after! probably something like this....... http://www.dmzfab.com/dr/chaosa.jpg but without the tubular bar for now(im going to the desert at the end of the month and dont have time to fab it up) so i just picked up some diamond plated aluminum, dumped my bumper skirt, and am going to go for it