what grille for efII fairmont

[Boza]

hey guys just bought my new car and it's an efII fairmont ghia but i really don't like the look of the grille on the front i have noticed alot of you guys changing them could you please give me some ideas and pic's as to what looks good on an ef fairmont i like the liik of the fbt grille but where the hell ca i source one oh and if you could post some pic's up of cr's with various grille's on them that would be much appreciated.

[Allen]

Congrats on buying a new car.

The FBT grille, is basically an EF Fairmont Grille surround with a different mesh insert in side of it. Good luck on trying to track a new one of those! Very hard to come buy...

Other grilles that will bolt on, are EL Fairmont, NF and NL Fairlane's and DF and DL LTD's...

In my opinion, the EF Fairmont Grille is the best looking out of the whole lot of them... Id love to swap my NF Grille for an EF Fairmont Grille...

This is what the NF grille looks like


If your EF is cardinal red, i'll swap ya ;)

[Boza]

nah soory it's white

[1TUFFUTE]

we have one to an i think the grille is just fine.

[LOWBA6]

EF Mont Grille FTW

[Harro]

deffinatly stick with the EF Grill

[Gobes32]

I really like the EL Fairmont grill. Biased as that is, that is my favourite.

[Gobes32]

You can also fit it without painting due to the chrome surrounds.

[Polyal]

Is the EL Ghia grill exactly the same as the EF Ghia?

If not go the EL, its the best IMO. The fairlane ones do NOT suit SWB's at all, they look stupid IMO.

[Sorted]

EF Fairmont Grille:-


EL Fairmont Ghia Grille:-



EF Fairmont with diff grille:-


EF Fairmont and EF Fairmont Ghia Grille are the same, only the EL's came with the Chrome "Surround" Grille :(

[Sorted]

Originally Posted by acosta32

You can also fit it without painting due to the chrome surrounds.

Well thats only if you get the one colour coded to your car OR you get the black ones......

As you can see in the previous post pictures........

[Sorted]

Originally Posted by DRHEMI

Well thats only if you get the one colour coded to your car OR you get the black ones......

As you can see in the previous post pictures........

EG Colour Coded:-



And here is a white colour coded one for you:-

[Dezza]

On EL's only the Ghia had the colour coded sections on the grille. Fairmonts had grey.

On EF, I think there were a few variations of the grille. EF Fairmont had the grey grille, early EF Ghias had the black grille, and later had black with a thin chrome surround. Correct me if I'm wrong

[outback_ute]

EF series one had the "EF" grille, EF series 2 had the "EL" grille.

[peterban]

I would go for the EL fairmont chrome grille colour coded or not.

[Boza]

well mine's a sreies 2 last of the 96 models and it has the chrome surround its noy colour coded the only reason i want to change the grille is because the chrome is starting to chip away and thought i could put a better grille on

[Sorted]

I have an EL Fairmont Ghia Grille which has "AS NEW" Chrome, no pits, no scratch's, mint BUT it is Burgandy and has 2 Small Chips on the paint and One of the Mount Brackets are missing..........

I may let it go for $150

PS EL Fairmont Grilles are not colour coded
EL Fairmont GHIA Grilles are colour coded

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by outback_ute

EF series one had the "EF" grille, EF series 2 had the "EL" grille.

Not quite. Here are the grilles

EF Fairmont - grey grille (series 1 and 2 had the same grille)


EFI Ghia - plain black grille


EFII Ghia - note the thin chrome surround around the black grille - chrome isn't as thick as EL

Originally Posted by DRHEMI

PS EL Fairmont Grilles are not colour coded
EL Fairmont GHIA Grilles are colour coded

I already said that in post #13