Best way to hide a front mount?

[clean2g]

I want to get a front mount for my 97 GSX, but before I do I was wondering if anyone knew some good ways of hiding it? Basically, I want to make my car a sleeper. I've heard of people painting the front of the core black? Any suggestions?

[Matt D.]

Not putting one on would make your car a sleeper. There's no way of hiding it without it looking like you're hiding something.

[CVD]

You could annodize it black, thats about it. Dont paint it.

[EclipseGST]

Grill mesh works sometimes. Depends on how small the holes are. Annodizing would probably be the best idea but powder coating it would work too if you have a good powder coat booth or know someone who does.

[white 2g awd]

i was thinking of this too, when i get a fmic, i'm going to anodize it, cause painting and powder coating are too thick, and might block some of the passage thru it, and they don't radiate heat i guess, so anodizing (can't spell?) wont have any of those effects cause it stains the metal i guess, there are a few threads about in on dsmtuners. and its not all that much to do it, i think one guy got it done for 100 bucks.

[blageo23]

best way to make a sleeper... get the FMIC black, put like mesh in front of it. Find The piece that goes where the opening was where the side mount was(the little plastic thing that RS and GSs have). If I saw that then I would just assume that you had a non turbo. Just my 2 cents.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Sleeper is overrated anyways. The only people who would be scared of a DSM with a FMIC vs one without are probably too slow to be worth racing anyways. I hate that grill stuff, ricey and blocks the airflow too much.

[Enes]

if you really want to surprise people that you are racing, just put a v-tec sticker on the back and they ALL will think you are a ricer!


thats it, thats ALL you will have to do

[niterydr]

Run a water to air intercooler, that'll be a sleeper!

[xluciusx]

yeah totally take off the X on the back so it says GS ;) I've been thinking about doing that just for fun...