My Personal Sharkhide Testing

This is my personal test for Sharkhide Metal Protectant. I have 2 pieces of steel and 1 piece of aluminum. I painted one half of each with Sharkhide and left the other half uncoated. I will strap 1 piece of steel & 1 piece of aluminum to the bottom of my daily driver and the other piece of steel will hang outside the shop. I will leave them on throughout the winter and will check them periodically and post video.

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Sounds as close to "real world" as you can get! I'll be watching this one!

 

Cool idea Chris, looking forward to the results!

 

Great idea,
And Chicago is about as good a place to test for salt, grime, etc. as you will get on the roads.

 

Any update on how they look now?

 

Hey Everyone

I finally looked under my daily driver and noticed I forgot the test panels were still strapped to the bottom of my trailer hitch.

Here are my thought, in the first image you will see the two panels I tested, one aluminium, one steel.

The steel was waisted but, the aluminium faired pretty well. My goal was to run bare on my project and coat it with sharkhide but, after this test I will look for another option. If I had an aluminium body I would think about it.

Thanks for your patience!

 

There's a place close to me that was showing some old hotrods at the Charlotte Auto Fair in bare metal. I asked about how they protect the metal and they said they just spray it with WD40 and wipe it down.

Good test. I though the aluminum would do a bit better