Hood already has grills if you look super extra close. They're black right now.

My next idea is to paint the grill on the hood the same color as mesh and paint the outside of the snout only black ( the part where the grill is, only the outside edges black, just like the gpos
I think you could pull that off if you have the mesh in the airdam as well. If you wanted to try it out you could always (dare I suggest) plastidip the area on the hood around the grills black and then change the existing grill on the hood to the silver just to see what it would look like. If it looks like sh*t, then peel of the dip and change the hood grills back to black.