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Aftermarket Grille

Postby trk29 [OP] » Mar 13 2011, 4:25am

I am thinking of replacing my factory grill with a aftermarket one and I am curious what people have.

I was thinking of getting a billet grille but I don't like most of what I have seen for a Chevy.
I saw a GMC yesterday witha vertical billet grille that I liked but I don't think the GMC grille will interchange. So I wanted to see if anyone has one of the shiny plastic grilles like this one what people thought of them. I don't know they look a little cheap to me.
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Re: Aftermarket Grille

Postby 2003Z71 » Mar 13 2011, 4:42am

Hey Tim
I wasn't impressed with plastic grille inserts either. I installed a Smittybilt billet aluminum grille in my 2003. It fits over the factory grille, so I didn't have to remove anything before I installed it. Even though it was sorta expensive, I think it's worth it.
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Re: Aftermarket Grille

Postby trk29 [OP] » Mar 13 2011, 4:52am

I had a regular billet grille on my 97 and it required me to jigsaw up my factory grille. If your grille goes over top of your factory grille does it stick out much?

I would really like a vertical one but I can't find one in aluminum all I can find is the wide plastic jobs.
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Re: Aftermarket Grille

Postby 2003Z71 » Mar 13 2011, 5:06am

I didn't have to cut anything up. It's flush with wide center grille bar.
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Re: Aftermarket Grille

Postby trk29 [OP] » Mar 13 2011, 5:15am

Oh, ok it looks good.
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Aftermarket Grille

Postby Jrluz14 » Mar 13 2011, 5:31am

IMO an RBP grill is the only one I'd put on a NNBS. That's if you have the $$$ tho.
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Re: Aftermarket Grille

Postby rocky_k1k » Mar 13 2011, 7:48am

Jrluz14 wrote:IMO an RBP grill is the only one I'd put on a NNBS. That's if you have the $$$ tho.
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Does Rolling Big Power make those grills for non HD applications..?
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Re: Aftermarket Grille

Postby rdss » Mar 13 2011, 10:58am

I think the top one looks the best, but am not a fan of the RBP star in the middle. Also, I saw one in the parking lot on Base and noticed that it plainly displayed the factory GMC logo under the grill. Hopefully the guy was just lazy and didn't properly do the install.
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Re: Aftermarket Grille

Postby trk29 [OP] » Mar 13 2011, 11:01am

Wow those things are high.

http://www.rollingbigpower.com/products ... cts_id=351

@$2,800.00 They can keep their grilles.
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Re: Aftermarket Grille

Postby trk29 [OP] » Mar 13 2011, 12:29pm

I kinda like this grille. But.....it's $716.67 bucks and its only two inserts for the stock grille.


Their aluminum floor mats are pretty tough looking!
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