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What have people done to try and preserve their liners. I have 2 track weekends (3 days each) at VIR and WGI and this is what I got out of my rear left wheel well. I replaced these at the end of last season and have big holes again. I sprayed them with track bed liner but that clearly did not help much. So I’m trying to high tech route with some wire fence, zip ties and duct tape (everyone a car goes faster with duct tape ). Curious what other people have done. I’m running Pirelli scrubs on the track.
The noise is already scary, when I first switched to slicks and the rubber started flying off on the back straight at VIR I thought the car was coming apart.
I’ve been extending the life by patching the holes with 1/16” haircell ABS plastic and very short pop rivets with aluminum backing washers. Definitely gets me a few more days out of a set. But I’m going to give this fiberglass resin idea a try.
It’s generally not the wheels…unless you were running too tall of a tire and it was rubbing. But if that was the case it’d be a clear point of contact. Mostly its big chunks of rubber flying off at high speed…just shreds the felt.
I use it behind the grill to keep stuff out of the radiator. I had a bolt come up through the liner and partially through my fender between the lower esses and upper esses at VIR and I'm thinking this might have stopped it and saved me bodywork and paint on top of saving the liner.
If you go back to the original post in this thread that looks similar to what they did. My concern with something metal on the tire side is what happens if it does contact the tire. Or worse gets ripped off and left on the track.
If you go back to the original post in this thread that looks similar to what they did. My concern with something metal on the tire side is what happens if it does contact the tire. Or worse gets ripped off and left on the track.
I understand that. I had a car that was just ahead of me that had magnetic numbers on their doors and one of them flew off and went through my grill on my z06. Same thing with the bolt that came up through the fender. I don't think it would hurt the tire but if it wasn't attached securely it could make a mess.
we can do this for anyone interested. Just ship them to us we can prep and ship back.
Any idea what you'd charge for this service?
It would probably be more cost effective for you to just grab them at your local Chevy dealer and then charge for the part + the coating service then ship them once. The shipping has always been crazy due to the bulky size. These are the one part I don't buy online because all the online discount parts dealers want more in shipping than the part costs to begin with. For example, my favorite online place, $249 MSRP, 33% off = $165 sell price. But they want $250 shipping, total for both shipped $580.
I have a good relation ship with my local Chevy dealer and they sell them to me for $177...there's no shipping because I'm just picking them up at the parts counter.
It would probably be more cost effective for you to just grab them at your local Chevy dealer and then charge for the part + the coating service then ship them once. The shipping has always been crazy due to the bulky size. These are the one part I don't buy online because all the online discount parts dealers want more in shipping than the part costs to begin with. For example, my favorite online place, $249 MSRP, 33% off = $165 sell price. But they want $250 shipping, total for both shipped $580.
I have a good relation ship with my local Chevy dealer and they sell them to me for $177...there's no shipping because I'm just picking them up at the parts counter.
Yeah you’re probably right about that. And shipping will be even more after we coat them because they aren’t flexible anymore, and whey more. The brand new set we just did won’t fit back in the box they came in as they came bent to fit the box, “we did order them” I think we paid about 1300 shipped for all 4? My office bought them So that’s just a close guess. It is a lot of work and very messy, It’s a full day between coats dry time ECT and few hundred bucks in materials. We could do it for $1500 plus shipping. That being said. If your current set don’t have any holes in them we can just coat those. The ones in the vid were used and pretty tore up. No holes and still had good meat on them and they came out as good as the brand new set. Www.socalmotorsportz.com if you would like to have them done our info is there. We can also send you a vid of the chisel test we did if you send your cell we can text it. It won’t let me post it in this feed as vid is too long.
Wheel liners solved
). Curious what other people have done. I’m running Pirelli scrubs on the track.
