Thread: Taking front grill off?

I was reading an article about the '13 gt500 that said it didn't come with a grill due to extra cooling.

Have you guys experimented with this? I mean, I know ours is nothing more than a cheap plastic piece with horizontal lines, but I wonder if it would help cool temps by 1 degree I'd take it off just for track days. Or maybe even a mesh grill would be better and still protect the radiator?

-G

Get the lucino grill...

never had an issue with our p10 track rat with the older style grill fwiw (tons of track duty too!)

I wonder if it would have been cooler with a different or no grill?



Ya I think that's what I'm going to do. Without running a grill at all I'd be afraid of a rock or something puncturing the radiator.

We ran a couple of times with no grill and never saw any marginal difference on our mechanical temp gauges FWIW <--- water with water wetter in the radiator is where we noticed a difference actually!

hmmm, interesting.

McCoy on the old forums said taking the grill off dropped temps 10-15F on his B13:

SR20 Forum - View Single Post - Cooling issues

I think he was running a Tsuru grill (old style)

So I bought a $20 honeycomb b14 grill off ebay on a whim and after examing it and my original one, the original one is WAY more free-flowing than the honeycomb one. I would *not* recommend the honeycomb grill. I think the OEM Lucino grill is actually not as bad as it has a lot more open holes, but this one has a bunch of closed holes where the Nissan badge and stuff goes. The oem b14 plain one actually has holes THROUGH the Nissan badge..wow, never expected that.

Having said that..I'd stick w/the stock plain lined b14 grill or check out the Lucino. Stay away from the honeycomb one if you want something that flows better.

-G

My water temp gauge temperature reads lower when I run without my grill.