Anyone good with photoshop? Whitewalls and red steelies

[guhfluh]

I'm trying to decide on wide whitewalls or regular black walls for my truck. I have red powdercoated steel 16" wheels ready to go on whenever I decide. Opinions are welcome.

Here's the pic:

[Senorpablo]

Here you go:

Red Ford Whitewalls thick.jpg

Red Ford Black tires.jpg

Red Ford Whitewalls thin.jpg

[guhfluh]

Awesome! That's perfect! Thank you!

I don't think I like the look of the whitewalls though. I like the blackwalls the best I believe. If I lower it in the future, I can always change to whitewalls when the blackwalls wear out.

Thanks again!

[67 Camper Special]

Try moon disks.........

Larry

[guhfluh]

Try moon disks.........

Larry

Who me?

Not many hubcaps fit a full floater rearend. The selection is very slim. I looked for some older dog dish hubcaps that would look nice, but nothing fits an 8 lug, much less clears the rear axle. I have a set of the factory polished stainless caps on it now.

[67 Camper Special]

I checked on mine and with 10" rear rims a set of moon disks would work. Its something I have been tossing around for my camper special.

Love your truck, very nice.

Larry

[guhfluh]

10"? Wow, that would probably look sweet. Mine are puny 6.5" wide 16" wheels from a 90's model. I wish I had found the Wheel Vintiques 8 lugs before I bought these and had them powdercoated. I would have gone with the 8x16" wheels they sell. 8x16 front and 8x10 rear would probably look real good;)

[67 Camper Special]

Thats what I was going to do, 10 in the rear, 8 in the front. I still may but I am tossing around the idea of a Crown Vic front end.

I see you had a hot rod ACR. I had a Miata that ran 10.9 at 139mph. Traction was an issue. That was my best run, most passes I had to back out because of traction problems. I had 674 FWHP @ 36#s Sure is fun to whup on V8's though. I built it for the Bonneville salt flats but my wife convinced me that trying to go 220 mph in a Miata on salt was not a good retirement plan. Sold it at a huge loss.

My street car was a twinscrew SC Miata running 14 psi. Corky Bell is a friend of mine so I was the test dummy for that setup. Great fun, pulled from idle to redline... .

That truck of yours with Moon disks and a pushbar would look like an old school salt flat support truck. Now a little turbo on that six, hmmmm......

Larry

[guhfluh]

Hehe, everyone that knows me tells me the truck needs a turbo:) If I had more support locally I'd actually consider it, but none of my buddies are much help for custom work. I was mentally planning a simple HX35 on a HD 300 six manifold and water/meth injection if I didn't feel like adding an IC. Just something useful for daily driving, not drag racing.

I've dreamt of building turbo Miata with about that much horsepower. That must have been fun! My Neon only dynoed 380whp@26psi, but that was a DynoDynamics dyno which reads lower than most Dynojets. Dynojet numbers would have been somewhere around 4-450whp. What ate up the HP was the high stall converter auto and no lockup, but it had crazy tq. I never got a good run at 26psi though, only at 21ish where I ran in the mid 10's. I sold it at a good loss too, to (partially)fund the truck project. It was just time for a change and I missed my old bumpside.

I wish I had friends like Corky Bell that could help me out with my projects! I'm jealous!