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My krylon white wall experiment

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by 60GMCGUY, Aug 10, 2007.

  1. Von Rigg Fink
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    oh no..he didnt just say that on here did he?..oh the humanity
     
  2. todd root
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    One more thing paint on the rim so what...... Live every day like it was your last one day yowl be right.
     
  3. belair
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    Jimv blazed the Krylon trail and has the arrows in his back to prove it! 60GMCGUY, it was a good idea that is never gonna work out. It appears you can't re-invent the wheel, OR the WWW that goes on it. But I wish you could.
     
  4. UnIOnViLLEHauNT
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    What about that crap on ebay? Wonder if anyones used it.
     
  5. 53Heavy
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    oh crap......poor fng;)
     
  6. Harris
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    Where's that pic of the baby "incoming"?

    Getting comfy and popping some popcorn.....
     
  7. Squablow
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    I tried this and I spent quite a bit of time prepping my tires. Looked real nice at first but any weather checking in the tires will crack the paint and it will flake off.

    The sidewall grinding method works very well, I've seen several sets done that way and they seem to hold up well. I've also tried the white roof coating and it seems to be holding up well over the past 6 months although I haven't driven the car much. It doesn't flake and can withstand a flat tire, it did turn a bit yellow (much like a real WWW tire) but I think that can be prevented with really good prep work before the white is put on.
     
  8. 40StudeDude
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    For all the work, time and effort you guys put into this TRYING to save a buck and have whitewalls...you coulda saved your beer money, sandpaper money, paint money or cigarette money and had the real deal --Coker is an Alliance vendor here...and there's NOTHING like having a set of REAL whitewalls...

    R-
     
  9. Nads
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    Excellent thread, I like this GMC fella, good attitude.
    I bet you if you revolved a lawn chair painted with Fusion down the road at 60 mph , it wouldn't stick to it either.
     
  10. five-oh
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    :mad:Unfortunantly, I have. Biggest waste of money I've ever spent. I prepped the tires properly,(spending a couple of hours counting masking off the wheels) and the paint lasted about two weeks and about 50 miles before it looked like a spiderweb and flaked off. The only good thing I can say about it was it let me see what my truck would look like with the whitewalls- kinda a lifesize Photoshop, if you will. I've came to the same conclusion others have- save your money and buy the real thing. I'll have a set of Coker G78's on my truck in about a month, I believe.
     
  11. oilslinger53
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    portawalls and rubber cement to keepen from flappin in the breeze
     
  12. This post has the term "rat rod" in it more than a B.S. Ebay add...

    Regarding the topic at hand here though. I come to agree with just buying the tires. I'm going pretty GD cheap on my 59 to get it back on the road, but I realize the only thing I can't short cut on is the tires. I can buy cheap stuff from JC Whitney, horse-trade parts or labor, fabricate my own exhaust, etc. without making the car look like a total hack-job. But there is absolutely no way around having to spend the money on getting the correct WW to make the car look just right.

    On the other hand, I do appreciate the spirit of trying. :)
     
  13. UnIOnViLLEHauNT
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    Good for you. And good for people like you. Go buy your tires, but dont generalize "absolutely no way" just cause you cant do it. I hate that shit.

    Use your imagination. Sure there are. Do they look like Cokers when you are 5 inches away from em? No. But do they look better than blackwalls? Yes. And for like $80 for all four tires used (and safe)?? Yes. Oh, they are runflats as well...

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  14. tfeverfred
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    I have to respect the effort and I do realise that WWW's are pricey, but in the end you'll be riding on a lie. No matter what you do, they will be fake. You wouldn't run a blower case with a two barrel in it, would you?

    You've got what looks to be a nice truck coming along. Save your money and get what you WANT, not a quick fix. It's all about the pride, man.
     
  15. 60GMCGUY
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    Well since i first started this thread i have since forgotten about that wheel and its sitting on my junkpile or somewhere something like that and now i figure ill paint the wheels red and turn the tires blackwall out so the letters are on the inside and use the money i saved on real whitewalls to build a better engine.
     
  16. Don't get me wrong here. I'm the king of all cheap-asses here. I can't help it. It's genetic from my Mom's side.

    Anyhow, I actually considered doing the same thing but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I did, however, looked into some process a guy in California was using called "cold vulcinazing" or something like that. I tried doing some research on the process, but I couldn't find anything more than his MySpace site. He supposedly bonds WW rubber to any existing tires if you supply the tires. Does anyone know anything else about this?
     
  17. Thats some funny shit, and I bet your right as well.
     
  18. porsche930dude
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    Iv been working on a job and have been passing by an old man painting ww on his pt cruiser. Id like to stop and ask what hes using but everytime i look at them i break out laughing histerically. I should take a picture. its ungodly
     
  19. five-duece-chevy
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    Any updates on whether it actually held up? I'm not one of those guys that feels like I'm "above" painting on whitewalls. I work two jobs to put food on the table and pay the mortgage so my wife can be a stay at home mom for our two kids, and if that means I can only afford a canned whitewall, then so be it. Anybody that wants to mock me for it can kiss my lemony fresh a$$.

    So yea, any updates? :p
     
  20. Nads
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    C'mon man, cut 'em some slack, old people gotta have hobbies, it's either this or they're going around banging each other without protection and spreading herpes hither and yon.
    Ask the old fuck, he might just know the secret to the $2.99 whitewall.
     
  21. UnIOnViLLEHauNT- Are the bumpers in the 1st 2 pix powder coated?
     
  22. Johnnyzoom
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    I guarantee more people laugh hysterically at you and your porsche than at this old guy.
     

  23. i bet that "old man" would have some good hot rods stories from days gone by. if he's painting white walls on his pt cruiser then you know he was wrenching in the day. i wouldn't be laughing at him i'd be talking to him. those "old guys" are the reason we do what we do. dig?
     
  24. cretin
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    riding on a lie? are you serious?
     
  25. rev106
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    I did the same thing with my soapbox racer, I used white primer. No I'm only going 40 or so and it's taken it's fair share of hits, the white wall still held up. I figure at the core of hot rodding is using what you have and making it work.

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  26. UnIOnViLLEHauNT
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    Nope. They were terrible and made to look that way for about $2 a piece. But, judging by this thread, you should probably go spend $3k on new bumpers....
     
  27. Hey UnIOnViLLEHauNT are those grinded, or painted? Looks great! I just bought the rubberized paint ($18) and I figure if I screw it up I could grind them as a last resort. There is a lot of naysayin here, but you hit the nail on the head when you said that it looks a hell of a lot better than the blackwalls. Not everybody is trying to win car shows! My favorite part of having an old car is doing a lot of the work myself, not spending $1K on tires.
     
  28. ArtGeco
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    Here's some pointers;

    Keep in mind I experimented for 7 months with
    various paint-on whitewall products and techniques.

    Definately use old (used), and good name brand tires.
    Cheap and/or new tires are really oily, paint doesn't like
    to stick to them and after a week or so you're white turns
    to yellow, the oil leeches through the rubberized paint.
    Don't buy the snake oil from that douche on ebay.
    (I hope you're on here and read this, you're a theif)
    What he is selling is $20 a gallon at Home Depot. It's
    Behr Elastomeric paint. Pick up a small (smooth) roller
    while you are there. also pick up a quart of denaturalized
    alcohol. Prep the tires several times a day with the alcohol
    for a couple of days, allow 24 hours to completely dry before
    painting. That's it, $30 and 2 or 3 days.

    Let me also say, after I did all this I still went and bought
    new tires with the skinny white wall and shaved them down.
    A much better look in the end, and brand new tires not used.
     
  29. porsche930dude
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    what did you use to shave them down?
     
  30. dirtbag_46
    Joined: Aug 15, 2007
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    I did rattle bomb www's on a bike once it looked good for a week or so but it yellowed and cracked as the tires flexed
     

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