Took mine (the alum covers) off. I like the open faced flush grill. I have been wanting to get another grill to actually cut out the entire honeycomb inset and fang base and just flush it out completely with some new honeycomb/lattice style. I just like clean and flush. I tend to do this to all my cars. Something similar to my STi grill.... CLEAN!

(not my STi pictured, mine is silver )