Maybe just three or four coats of clear will do you just fine. Something tells me the 271 coats of clear called for by nacademus might cause the grill to grow in size to the point where it won't go back in the opening.

Just picking at you a little bit there nacademus, sometimes my brain gets stuck like that and I just go slam my head in a car door to make it all better again.

 

I like to snort fire ants....

 

your welcome in my backyard nac...

 

You could peel the chrome off first..then you could compete in the an@l retentive HHR mod of the month contest.
https://www.chevyhhr.net/forums/mods-exterior-55/another-3-bar-grill-35951/

 

I left mine chrome...... Eventually I will be the only guy with a stock chrome grill and everybody will ask where I got it.


Besides, that grill was the first thing I noticed when the HHR came out..... It made me say "I want that"

 

The chrome takes debris to the teeth day in and day out. I already have a few nicks in my faux chrome grille. I wish it was a metal of some sort. That'd be awesome!

I'm gonna make some steel teeth and remove my grille altogether. lol.