Ok here goes. I bought a set of grills from Grillcraft. When I purchased them I thought I was getting a very high quality set of grills because of the 300 some dollars spent on 2 little pieces of metal. It didnt even occur to me to ask or check what kind of metal they are made of. Much to my dissapointment they are not stainless steel and WILL rust. The good part about this is that if you call grillcraft they will send you a new set for free but of course they wont pay for the time it takes to take off the front bumper to install them. I think im gonna sell the new set they send me and go with a set of Prodrive grills. The prodrives are a bit more expensive but they are stainless steel. Just hope this helps anyone thinking about buying grillcraft.

Ack! glad you posted. Saved me some money. I'm REALLY not interested in spending that kind of money on a grill that's going to end up freakin' rusting!
:monkey: for grillcraft if that's true....

Stay away from any kind of grille insert that consist of metal. Besides it not looking good, it seems to be very restrictive for air flow purposes...

I believe both the prodrive and grillcraft sets look really good and I dont think air flow is restricted that much at all. In my situation its not like i have a FMI. Anyone lookin to get some grills go with Prodrive!

I went the cheap way. Five dollar Home Depot mod! I used that stuff that you put on your gutters to stop leaves and crap from glogging them. I cut them to shape, sprayed them with rust inhibitor, and then with chrome paint. Then secured them to my car with galvanized wire.
Looks good too.

I put em by my front emblem, and behind my scoop.

pics:

ya that way is definitely the most bang for your buck but i dont like how the grills site back in teh bumper unlike the grillcraft/prodrive ones

Originally posted by wolfen42
Ack! glad you posted. Saved me some money. I'm REALLY not interested in spending that kind of money on a grill that's going to end up freakin' rusting!
:monkey: for grillcraft if that's true....

its definitely true! ill send pics asap

i used to have a grillcraft grill on my old car and it was powdercoated black from the factory. did yours come unpainted??

the ones that i got were painted but they werent black, they were silver

so your grill is rusting through the paint? or are you just scared that one day it may rust?

is it rusting very badly on the bottom piece and some mild rust on the upper piece

Originally posted by killaho
i used to have a grillcraft grill on my old car and it was powdercoated black from the factory. did yours come unpainted??

Maybe I'm ok then... I was thinking about getting the black ones...

I really dont think it matters what color it is. If the rust will eat through the silver paint im pretty sure itll eat through the black paint as well and it would even look worse than mine does imo.