Very nice How long did the swap take you? I will be doing that to my car as well next month. I will be modding it before I install it
Looks good. I really want that, but don't want to lose my fog lights. One idea I've had is to get the GT/CS front bumper and the Shelby lower foglight kit for it. Then I could have the Bullitt grill and not lose my fogs.
Thanks guys- The swap took about 15 minutes once the hood was raised. Had the 3D-Carbon grille in so I’ve been through this before… nothing major though and you do not have to remove the front bumper as some instructions indicate. The tri-bar running pony came with the 3D-Carbon grille but I didn’t care for the way it mounted and looked so I left it off. Once the bullitt grille arrived I mounted it and just swapped the grilles out. There are not as many openings in the bullitt grille as the 3D-Carbon has so I'll more than likely pull it again and open up some area for more air flow. I'm happy with the looks.
FWIW, if you open the grill up more, you may need hood pins. I'm willing to bet with all the holes open, you'd have quite a bit of hood flutter.
True- that is a good point… in the 3D-Carbon grille none of the honeycomb pattern is closed off it is completely open… it was only in for a short time before I ordered the bullitt grille and didn't drive much over the posted speed limit so I did not notice any hood flutter. With the bullitt grille I’m thinking of opening it up not completely but in a more uniform pattern. There are three rows of honeycomb closed off on each side of the opening, that comes in the grille and the two rows above the opening are closed completely off. I plan to open the two rows directly above the opening in the grille now so it has an open area from the hood to the bumper but leave the three rows to each side alone. Should be okay just doing that.
The stock grill and 3D carbon one have more openings because they have foglights. I'm sure if you actually count them, the openings are about the same. If you're not against getting hoodpins, then go ahead and give it a shot. But if you're against it, you may not want to try it.
Sorry, I don't have a link for it right now. It's in the 2008 Shelby catalog. They're supposed to be available this spring. A few people with special ordered Shelby GT's already have them.
