Cheers Grant

I think your homemade Grill idea will be the next Big Thing!

Red XJS with mesh grille = Grant! Thanks for all the info, Sir. Forcedair1, I agree on closer inspection that the aftermarket grille doesn't look as good as the ones you guys made. Sounds like they would sell if made into a kit!

The mesh material for my XJS grille actually came from Mina, as in the Mina Gallery. I visited them in the San Fernando Valley (CA) and a visual inspection of the one they advertise for the XJS looked a bit like a piece that you snap on/snap off and did not convince me, but most of all because, by then, I was already more sold on the heavier mesh material that Jaguar was beginning to use on their supercharged cars and which Mina was using for aftermarket Range Rover grilles; that was exactly what I wanted, so they cut me a piece enough to cover both, upper and lower grilles. I would imagine that they still work with that kind of mesh material.

Cheers,

pix of my grill back in 1994-95, horozontal bar grill were in style!

makes the car look more lower and wider stance(stance is important).

the mesh grill make me think Cadillac V models, but it all is good , i'm sure in another 20yrs ,there will be another style grill!

My .01 cents:


1. I've seen that chrome woven wire somewhere? In older "ice boxes"? I've seen it in plain form and painted or possibly powder coated in home improvement store. A PO of this house had a chunk along a back fence as a lattice for vines to grow on. It also served to hold a very dilapidated fence section together!!


2. And decades ago, my son bought a very abused 73 Ford Ranchero in full Squire trim. Fake woodie panel trim in plastic. Found a shelf paper in wood that matched perfectly.Odd, huh?


It's grill was bashed as well. So, off tot the lumber yard as they were known then.
A chunk of bare expanded metal. Flat black. Perfect look, but not as original. Mebbe even better.


So, were I to need a grill, I'd look to the expanded metal with powder coat or just flat black rattle can


Carl

Check this out Bro!

Which one would you choose?

https://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/s...-s&fr2=piv-web

wow! Just a few to choose from OB lol!

i'm betting my bar grill will flow more cooling air than most mesh will.

Yeah this is what I am wondering too ronbros. I guess it depends on how coarse the mesh is.

I think its very amusing that someone consider Chicken Wire to be "decorative".

The subject here is a mesh grille for the XJS, right? Well, then, why not go with the mesh type that Jaguar, themselves use, so the end result looks more like an actual Jaguar mesh? That material should be available, as it is also used on some Land Rover vehicles.

Here are some examples:
I show my own (2002) XJR with the finer mesh used earlier by Jaguar.
Then pics of the later, stronger mesh used by Jaguar on later cars.

Cheers,

I like it, especially in black. I don't think that you caused any harm to value. These cars are meant to enjoy; obviously you enjoy yours on the road and whilst tweaking it to suit yourself.

Airflow is always a concern with XJ-S owners, and I have no idea why in the real world.

They have the aerodynamics to get plenty of air IN the front, the issue is getting it OUT.

Different markets have more "stuff" jammed in there than others (ours for one has less than most).

The changes most of us have made to things like A/C compressor (smaller versus larger black monster) is one item that assists air to actually pass through the engine bay.

The large foam insulation pad on top of the transmission that falls down and sits ON the transmission, blocks a lot of airflow OUT of the engine bay.

Our lack of engine pipe cats also assists greatly.

The front spoiler integrity on the Pre Facelift cars is another cooling system hiccup. This thing must be intact.

My mesh is as close as I could find by simple eyesight to what became the "R" Jag mesh, having not seen that stuff in 1995. So when I saw that particular mesh "on the roll", it just sort of "looked just right", and I reckon I got it just right.

NO issues with cooling on that car ever, since I did ALL the "Grants updates" to the cooling system the first month of ownership. No "grazing" as Doug says.

I also agree, it is YOUR car, and what you do is for YOU, and since the XJ-S is so special to all of us, one mans "bling" is not anothers. So be it.

I need a HUGE drink after that monumental scribe HAHA.

sorry didnt mean to light the FUSE, LOL.

What fuse????, I dont have one. I did not read anything "fuseable" trust me.

I like leapers on the XJ-S, most dont.

Semi sports exhausts are a MUST on the V12 for me, others like them SILENT.

I dont mind the Prince of Darkness, some hate him.

Us being what we are is what makes this forum, and the world, rotate, all the same is boring.

That's the spirit, Nookieman.

Cheers,

getting the air out something like these!! pix,
done around 10yrs ago!

Seen them before...But, do they work in cooling the car in traffic ??

SWEET.

Finding someone to that these days is getting hard. Like an honest used car salseman.

Yep.

Hot air rises.