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There are several replacement grill options out there for the Mustangs.  Replacing the grill serves 2 purposes.  It will make washing and drying the car much easier that dealing with honey comb grill, and it will also set your car apart from the others.

Replacing the grill is relatively easy with a little patience involved.  The black plastic panel that covers the radiator needs to be removed.  There are a couple of plastic Philips head screw that have an expansion anchor holding the shroud on.  Remove these and put them in a safe place.  There is also 2 of these on the bumper fascia arms that extend up and border the gill and separate the grill area from the headlights.  Remove these 2 as well, we will need to flex the bumper fascia forward during the install.

Moving the headlights off to the side will help tremendously as well.  They do not have to be removed completely but you can if you so desire.  There are two black tabs at the top and back of the headlights.  Pulling these two tabs vertically will release the headlight assembly and you can swivel them both off to the side.

There are a couple of bolts that hold the grill to the bottom of the bumper fascia.  Flexing the fascia forward will allow you to access these from behind the grill.  They are held to the fascia via quick bolts and might be a tad rusty.  You will not need these to remount your new Billet grill.  Leave them with your stock grill incase you want to return to a stock mode at any time.

There are two posts at the bottom of the stock grill that mate with 2 hole in the bumper fascia.  There are similar pegs on the Billet grill.  Slip these into place first and then rotate the grill back towards the radiator and replace the plastic Philips screws with the new bolts supplied with your new grill.

Replace the two plastic Philips head mounting screw on the bumper fascia as well as moving you headlights back into position.  Replace the two arms that hold each headlight in place and push them down solid.

The only thing left now is to replace the plastic radiator cover with the remaining plastic screws, close the hood and step back and admire your work.