Non-Zunsport

[churchie2856]

My non-Zunsport grills for my 718 Cayman.

Mesh - £15
Template - 30 minutes
Grill cutting - 20 minutes
Install - 10 minutes
[Removal - 2 minutes]

These are installed behind the louvres, but without the need to remove the bumper; there's lots of room to slid them in at an angle. Fixed with a few barely visble cable ties.

I got the car up to operating temperature (both coolant and oil) and installed them while idling - no temperatue increase observed. Then a road test (A+B roads) - grills still in situ afterwards and no increase in running temperature.

Edited by churchie2856 on Saturday 30th November 19:10

[arcamalpha]

Look good. What clips did you use to hold them in? Same as zunsport ones?

[ClubsportStr]

They look good . What mesh did you use ? And where did you buy it. Thinking about doing some for my car.

[churchie2856]

arcamalpha said:

Look good. What clips did you use to hold them in? Same as zunsport ones?

No clips, just a few black cable ties at the sides, around the horizontal bars spanning the inlets. These are basically unnoticable unless you are on the floor and staring for them.

[churchie2856]

ClubsportStr said:

They look good . What mesh did you use ? And where did you buy it. Thinking about doing some for my car.

Amazon [ https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005BP79ZS/ref...], though for my old 997.2 I bought it from my local motor factor.

[PaulD86]

Cheap and I'd say they look better than the zunsport ones.

[kith]

They look great. If you fancy knocking up a 997.2 set, I'd happily pay you some beer money on top of cost

[icekay]

This looks really good and definitely convinced me to make some, those cable ties are pretty much invisible in black.

I wonder how much they flex at high speeds though of course you could just add extra fixings.

[churchie2856]

kith said:

They look great. If you fancy knocking up a 997.2 set, I'd happily pay you some beer money on top of cost

I would if I still had a 997.2 and my cardboard template was long since recycled.

One point to note about the 997.2 is that to get the mesh in place you have to remove the vertical plastic blade that sits in the middle of the appature. These are pushed into the back of the horizontal slats and locked by a small clip undernethe if I recall coorectly. So once the mesh is in place there are no vertical bars. This is hardly noticable. In fact when I looked to trade my 997.2 at an OPC (but didn't in the end) they didn't even notice - though did say "good job on the DIY grills". [they said it would have gone to auction].

Here's a pic. I was going to remake 'em in black, but car was sold before I got round to it.

[churchie2856]

icekay said:

This looks really good and definitely convinced me to make some, those cable ties are pretty much invisible in black.

I wonder how much they flex at high speeds though of course you could just add extra fixings.

In this pic I've pointed out the cable ties. The "lock" of the cable tie is hidden under the horizontal bar at the back.

[2Btoo]

Nicely done. I did something very similar on my 987.1 Cayman, using some bee hive mesh (stainless steel mesh with a black powder coating). No running temperature difference and invisible to any but the most determined spotter.

[V800MJH]

Very good job. They look much better than the Zunsport ones!

I've got similar on mine. Didn't fit them myself though.

[57Ford]

Having lost one of my horizontal spars:

is there something I can do for my 986 along similar lines which would look ok with all bars removed or do I need to somehow find the part?
(I also need the cover for the towing eye in Basalt black if anyone can give me a steer please...)