I appreciate that. It still has a special place in mine as well!! Not that the current Red Candy car isn't nice and all, but it's not my baby that I went on-line and built exactly the way I wanted. Then planned out all my mods to make her different from the rest at the time. I miss that car a lot and I don't think my kids have forgiven me yet

 

Quick question. In the official Roush installation manual it mentions installing the Roush radiator shields (left and right). What purpose do these serve and did you install them? I plan on buying my fascia off ebay and I don't think it comes with the shields. Thanks!

 

hey Matt,
Yeah I just saw that too, but I did the same, I bought it off ebay and it didnt come with those shields. Havent exp any problems so far and not sure what purpose they currently serve.

maybe for rocks deflection? Not sure, but I plan to get the lower bar as well so that should take care of that

but yeah hope this install helps you out man and post pics when your done

 

Okay that's good to hear. Hopefully it works out okay. A guy on my other forum just told me that he is having alignment issues because his bumper is being pushed out a bit by the stock radiator shield; he also bought his off ebay. Maybe it varies from car to car. His and mine are both V6 though; not sure if there are any differences in the rad shields between the GT and V6.

This makes me somewhat leery of starting this install though. I don't have much experience with body work and if I run into problems I'm not sure whether I'll be able to rectify them without making something worse.

 

I had some alignment issues but it was because I didn't trim the radiator shields like the instructions said to. I didn't do the install though, a bodyshop did. I plan on taking back off and trimming them where the bumper is contacting an them k

 

And then putting it back on. I watched the shop do it and it's super easy to take off and put back on. Once you have the screws out it just pops off.

 

Oh I see. So you didn't have the Roush radiator shields and have to trim the stockers now?

 

I just read the instructions again and I didn't see where you have to trim the radiator shields. Sorry about that. I must have read that on another thread. I know that when i was installing the front splitter i could see where the fascia was pressed into the shield and when I moved the shield the sides that were a little off would straighten out. Sorry about the mis-information. Now I have to go look and see where I read that at!

 

hey Rob, good to see ya man
Yeah Matt, Rob was the one who help me link up with the seller on ebay.

But yeah I checked the online instructions from Roush and it says if it doesnt line up right you can add shims. I didnt have any probs with mine but I guess there is a possibility other bumpers may not line up right. But it looks like it is corrected with those shims.

the instructions are in a pdf so i can't post a pic of it, but I will see if i can post the direct link.

 

Hey Jed, good to see you to. I'm ordering my upper grill this week from American muscle. The lower grill will have to be ordered from Roush directly. I have looked all over and no one makes the lower grill with the same spacing as the upper grill. Street scene makes one but instead of 6 bars it has 8 which will make the spacing very close.

 

Oh okay! I'll just have to be on the look out for this when I install. I may not do that before winter rolls around here though; I don't necessarily want to be rolling around with a new bumper when there are 20 ft snow banks. But I have arranged to pick up a Roush bumper for $150 and plan on painting it for $200. Overall a pretty good deal I guess, even if I have to do some trimming.

 

That is an excellent deal. That is about what I paid for mine already painted off eBay. It was like $250 with $80 shipping or something like that. It's a great mod to subtle but dramatic enough to make people look twice!

 

Yeah its definitely much cheaper than directly from Roush or a reseller. Now I'm just debating whether to put a 3M wrap on it but that's going to be another $300. In any case, if you find out where you read about the radiator shield trimming can you please let me know? Thanks a lot!

 

thanks for the write up dude!

 

Thank you Jive!!!!! I've been looking for a tutorial on how to take off my bumper and you made one so easy!!!

 

Also Thanks for the write up. I'm ordering my next . I need to have someone paint my, as Roush does not do Sunset Gold. Like the new look.

 

Great write up. Roush bumpers are the best. That's all I have to say