I think he is probably talking about the black plastic strip under the grille. It kinda looks like a gap but it's a black plastic strip right under the bottom bar of the grille.

Thanks, the grille is black on mine, guess it was just the way the light hit it in that picture. It looks good for the most part but mine actually needs to be a touched up a bit; that was supposed to be a test fit to see if I liked it. Now that I've figured out that I do I actually need to do a little more sanding & painting. I've just been lazy.

The mesh that I have is probably strong enough to grate cheese on. I didn't buy grille material like most people from customcargrills.com, I used expanded metal from amazon.com, it's very solid.

I have really been considering this mod. I have no experience with any of this or anything like it. Is there a simple write up to this? or someone who can simplify all of this? It seems so confusing to me. Thanks for the help! sorry about my stupidity.

well Thats good to Hear that its not just in danger of being blown out Haha! So how did u work around the hood latch?? Did u have to modify that in any way?

thinking of making a satoshi grill and putting a galactic gray mica grill on titanium metallic 4runner. has anyone done this or have any thoughts on using a different color grill. i saw that some tacomas have a different color grill and i think it might look good.