Removing rubber from asphalt

[brickyard69]

I did a nasty burnout on my street last wee, and I have a neighbor that would like the marks removed.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Muriatic acid, bleach?

[nancejd]

I'd move.:drive2:

Seriously though, I would think that anything that would remove the rubber would damage the asphalt as well. About the only thing that will get rid of them is time.

You could offer to do more burnouts until the whole street is the same color.

[vanzuuk1]

Is anyone else as curious as I am?, how did that conversation go?..

[brickyard69]

It's not THAT bad!

I just live in an "Hoitie Toitie" area.

The Chicago winter and salt will remove most of it.

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[viper11]

you could try gunwash or thinners but like nancejd said it'll probably damage the asphalt
a blow torch may work??
oooh! oooh! even better pour gas on the patch and set it on fire, maybe it will melt and blend in (please post pics of the tire marks and the fire heh heh!)

if it was me, i'd call a couple of friends and ask them to come over in the night and lay a bunch of rubber all over, that way he can't bitch about your tracks
jason

[brickyard69]

It was during our block part. As a matter of fact that is a fire truck at the end of the street. The kids were climbing on it. A few of my other neighbors all wanted rides in the "hot rod".

I did about nine other ones, in someone elses neighborhood of course.

The next morning (nice and hung over) she waived me down and asked when I would be removing the "damage". I have thought about laying several more at night. She could never prove it.

My buddy is a cop and said unless he saw someone do it, there is nothing he could do. She will probally complain to the neighborhood board next.

[nancejd]

Maybe you should do burnouts on their lawn instead? That way you won't leave rubber....

[brickyard69]

You guys crack me up.

[brickyard69]

The best part is: I just installed nitrous this week and I need to test it out!

Here are some pics of the car (still need to install the DSE cage and finish the interior.

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[Bill Howell]

What seats did you use?

No way I would worry about the marks. Tell her to get a life.
Tell her it is not damage, it is protecting the asphalt from the elements.

[brickyard69]

Jegs

Simulated Corinthian Leather.

For the money, they are the bomb!

[brickyard69]

Where do you guys come up with one liners.

I am dieing here!

My wife must think I am on some twisted web-site.

[Bill Howell]

Jegs

Simulated Corinthian Leather.

For the money, they are the bomb!

Brand? Jegs?
Thanks

[brickyard69]

http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?lang=-1&catalogId=10002&storeId=10001&categoryId=25729

$189/seat (Includes tracks)

I wanted Sparco or others, but felt putting that money in the motor/driveline was better spent.

[dropit69]

damn nice car and sweet burnout..i think she needs some flaming doggy poo at halloween on her porch..

[brickyard69]

Alright, my sideis killing me. No more please!

[Hidro]

Just make sure if you do anymore burnouts, that they start from her driveway.:headbang:

[CraigMorrison]

Just make sure if you do anymore burnouts, that they start from her driveway.:headbang:

That's what I was thinking.... Make sure you back right up against the garage door too. Extra points if you can get rubber chunks to stick against the door. Bonus points for playing "Cherry Pie" at top volume while doing the above. I can see it now, and it's making me laugh.:lmao:

[Sir Don]

:smoke: OK, brickyard69, what town are you in? We need to do a "Burnout fest"! :twothumbs People can swing by all day long and mark their territory if its up for graps. Something like deer marking their territory. If you're going to clean up your marks, then someone else may as well come in and claim it. That'll show her that it was better to let one person do their thing, then open it up to the whole world.

All kidding aside, we need to claim our country back. Heck, kids can't even play "Tag" at recess any more.

[MarkM66]

Having the whole drive re-sealed is the only fast way to cover up those marks.

[HILROD]

I seriosly can have those covered up for you. With more rubber! Just say the word! FRANK:3gears:

[Bow Tie 67]

I think the best way to handle this would be to talk with her husband. If he was doing his job ( Um Hm Her! ) she may not be so uptight.

[6'9"Witha69]

Use a pressure washer.
Tim Allen the motor on it so it is louder.
Use her hose.

[ssdeuce]

Dude your my new hero! You did that sweet burnout in that neighborhood I'm surprised she didn't have you arrested.

[jaybee]

Tell her it's not damage, you've covered the asphalt with a protective layer of rubber.

[Patrick]

PROVEN: If you stop your rear tires exactly where your burn out ended, put it in Reverse and stand on it. While it would appear that you would be doing a burn out in reverse... it will actually lift the rubber off the asphalt and bond it back to your tires.

Go try it and report back with the good news!

[Kenova]

I did a nasty burnout on my street last wee, and I have a neighbor that would like the marks removed.
:secret: Tell her she has more important things to worry about ....... her daughter's boyfriend(s):kiss: ....... her son's "boyfriends" :kiss: ........ her husbands co-worker(s) ....... that strange guy that keeps looking in their windows around 1:00 am ........ that other neighbor's pets and her pet :grouphug: .
Of course there is always the good old :moon: .
Ken

[442olds]

Have a chat with the trash guy. Most trucks are fitted with a dead man brake. The guys around here like to just lift their foot off the switch and the truck comes to a screaching halt. That marks up the street real fast. There would be "damage" all over the place and if you can convince him to come by early enoug in front of the neighbors house it sure will make a lot of racket.

And as far as damage. It looks like an improvement to the street to me. :3gears:

[WS6]

PROVEN: If you stop your rear tires exactly where your burn out ended, put it in Reverse and stand on it. While it would appear that you would be doing a burn out in reverse... it will actually lift the rubber off the asphalt and bond it back to your tires.

Go try it and report back with the good news!


This has worked great for me in the past. I highly recommend this method.

[Beegs]

That's what I was thinking.... Make sure you back right up against the garage door too. Extra points if you can get rubber chunks to stick against the door. Bonus points for playing "Cherry Pie" at top volume while doing the above. I can see it now, and it's making me laugh.:lmao:

LOL..damn funny!

[Smoke'm]

some Mr. Clean erasers will get r done, Wally world has the best prices by the case...:bananna2:

[Neil B]

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[Bow Tie 67]

In disgust with yourself for not being able to clean up your marks. You proceed to offer the offending tires up to the her "Hoitie Toitie" gods by burning them down until they explode :drive2: Of course this is done in front of her house as a peace offering.

[shmoov69]

Just make sure if you do anymore burnouts, that they start from her driveway.:headbang:
Ummm.....I did that in high school to someone I did not like at about 2:30AM!! Huge smokey in the driveway slinging rubber up on the door and smoking them out the drive and down in front of the house! SWEET!!!:yeah: No Cherry Pie though!
SWEET smokey by the way!! That must've been a conversation piece with all the neighbors around!!

[BA.]

That's what I was thinking.... Make sure you back right up against the garage door too. Extra points if you can get rubber chunks to stick against the door. Bonus points for playing "Cherry Pie" at top volume while doing the above. I can see it now, and it's making me laugh.:lmao:


I love the Cherry Pie song! :) lol!


Funny stuff Craig!


YO Brickyard! Very nice marks man! That ain't no little burnout! Sweet car too. You could always SPRAY PAINT some light grey paint over the marks! :D

[MrQuick]

nice neigborhood. I don't blame her. I wouldn't want my front to look like down town Oakland either. Im happy you don't live on my street.

Anybody ever tell you " don't crrap where you eat"? same difference. Get the stiff brissle push broom out. Then a long neck propane torch.

[Madspeed]

First and foremost
Tell her to LICK YOU WHERE YOU STINK!!!!

secondly this brings memorys of when I was a Punk (wait i still am)
my buddys all had pegleggers and were burning out in front of his house with bleach.
I proceded to roll around the corner and find this going on.
Well I rolled up my SBC400 66 auto chevelle with roundy pounder slicks on the back. I power broke it for a good min or so. my other buddy opens the pasenger door gets in sits down shuts the door and I lift of th brakes.

Man we left 2 10" wide strips a good 50 yards or so.
Those tracks were there for over 6 years


Another time I was in my blazer with 38" Ground Hawgs and a 454 Built like I do.
.
We hated this old bag next door to another buds house.
one night we rolled by I drove up on her lawn in 4 low.
And ripped huge trenches in her front lawn.
Man I remember like it was yesterday

Oh yea Btw I had a 1200 watt system jamin Iron maiden LOL
I had 2 18" cerwin vegas back there =)
Shoot I still have the 18's in my closet (WTF can I do with them =) )

:git:

[brickyard69]

You guys carck me up!

This is some of the funniest stuff I have ever heard!

My favorite is the Cherry Pie reference.

I think I may have to test out my newly installed NOS in front of my house.

The rest of my neighbors love it. When I fire it up, they all want rides.

Keep me laughing!

[Jim Nilsen]

Where I used to work problems that needed to be solved that would never get any attention and the supervisor would ask why we weren't doing anything about it, we would just look at him and say" it doesn't look that bad when I go home" so just ask her if she can see them when she is drinking her coffee in her kitchen or living room and when she says ,no, then proceed to tell her to go get a cup of coffe and forget about it. If all she has time to do is look at those marks then she needs to get a life like someone else said.

But to get to the answer to the question and the reality of it all, a 2,500 psi pressure washer might do the trick. You might try some of that stuff the have for eating up oil stains on your garage floor, a wire wheel and a cordless drill might lighten them up, muriatic acid will lift them for sure but will leave a light streak because it will be cleaner than everything else and blasting it with sand will do the same. Also you might try a Devcon product called B4 acid etch, it is totally environmentally friendly and I know for sure it lifts rubber off of concrete because I have repaired many floors and it removed the rubber from forklifts, it also isn't as caustic as muriatic acid and might not leave a clean stain as deeply.

The other alternative would be to get her a pair of glasses with some lines painted on them and tell her she won't notice them as long as she wears the glasses.

I would try the pressure washer first and then a combination of some of the things suggested starting with the oil stain remover first and then the B4 or muriatic acid.

Goodluck and I hope she shuts up about it because they will be there for a long time if you don't and listening to it over and over again will make you both tired of it and I bet she has more persistance than you do:candle:

Jim Nilsen

[brickyard69]

Glasses with lines!

LOL

[bret]

I did a nasty burnout on my street last wee, and I have a neighbor that would like the marks removed.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Muriatic acid, bleach?

The only true solution is to remove the neighbor...to the 'hood. They will forget ALL about the black marks on the street when looking at the blood stains on the sidewalk!

[formula]

My neignborhood is very curvy, with some sweet switchbacks, long radius uphill-downhill transitions, a couple semi-long straightaways, and two different available routes to rip it up through. well of course we never wanted to hurt anyone so we never reeeeaaallllyyy took advantage of it (speed limit was 27.5:bsjerk: , we played around at maybe 45-50, other people could and did drive through easily at 35-40) but apparently when you're walking out in your yard, a ridiculously loud 78 formula followed by a ridiculously loud 98 trans am, ridiculously loud 95 z28, and ridiculously loud 86 z28, even at normal speeds, looks exactly like street racing. Since these were my three best friends and my house was central to everyone else's, we have a LOT of neighbor and cop stories.

My favorite....and the one that relates here...was the time my neighbor came over to yell at my dad for me doing "smokeouts".

Neighbor: ah yeah hi there mister ____, I was just curious, does your son have a white mustang?
Dad: no sir, his car is a firebird...but it is white.
Neighbor: ah well alright, i just thought you would appreciate knowing that he's been out galavanting around in his car doing smokeouts in front of people's houses (verbatim!)
Dad: (looks at my car, transmissionless at the time, with no wheels mounted, on jackstands, directly behind him) well mr._____, while i appreciate your concern, I find that difficult to believe. You see, my son's car has not been on the road in at least two months, and has no transmission or wheels right now.
neighbor: oh, wow, i see....did he get in an accident?
dad: no, we're just fixing it up.
neighbor: alright, well you make sure to keep him in line when that thing gets back up and running
dad: (barely containing his laughter) oh yes sir, i will.

You see, the good part of the story is why my dad was choking back laughter. The car doing burnouts was not mine...it was my best friend's 98 t/a. And the person doing burnouts was not me....it was my father. This was 4 years ago--the marks are still there. And we were on street tires.

Also funny is the reason my car was transmissionless-- my old saginaw fragged out on me after an especially extended burnout of my own.

The picture doesn't do the burnout justice...the only way you can really tell it was wilder than normal is the shift mark a little way up. I've never beat on my car so hard since.

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Since all of my marks still stand strong almost half a decade later, you can tell that I have no clue how to get them off of asphalt...only how to make them last for a lonnnnggg time.

[lawbreaker2]

One of my brothers buddy back up to the front door of our high school back in the 80's and left a big posi mark right out of there, I have a pic some where.:3gears:

[Jim Nilsen]

I just had the thought ,you could give/send her a Hallmark Card and tell her the memories from the block party will last a very long time foreverevyone in the neighborhood from what you can tell.LOL

You just have to decide what kind, belated thankyou,sympathy,or holiday?

Jim Nilsen

[MonzaRacer]

SWEET!!!! DO IT AGAIN DADDY! DO IT AGAIN!!!!

JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE DADDY PART BUT HECK IF SHE IS ONLY PERSON BITCHING TEST nos OUT WITH HEAD OF COMMUNITY BUNCH!

[mikey]

You could always do another one perpindicular to the previous one. Just make sure it's close to the middle of it. Then tell her you were just making a giant tic tac toe board for the neighborhood kids to play on.:idea:

[brickyard69]

My favorite thing to do is wake up and find out what kind of funny crap you guys have come up with.

Thanks for the laughs. I will keep you posted.

[6'9"Witha69]

I remember back when my Camaro was a peg legger, I did a smoky burnout in front of someone's house. I sat there for about 30 seconds power braking. when we inspected the damage later, there was about a 70 yard burnout down the street, and where I was powerbraking there were 5 lines worn into the asphalt. I literally tore up the street. Glad noone ever made me fix that. Replacing divots sound familiar. My friends laughed so hard that from then on, before I started a burnout, I yelled FORE!!

[MrQuick]

ok I have a funny story...
My neighbor had a nice 65 notch and he use to terrorize the streets with burnouts. He got bored one day so he did a 4 min burnout which started in the street in front of our houses, up into his driveway into his garage then he shut it with the genie and kept it going. Well short story he had smoke pouring out of his roof vents and the fire dept was up there about 3 mins later. Too funny. Did I mention his brother owned a tire shop?

Our thing in highschool was to get my 67 Chevelle with a one legger do a fatty 30 - 40 foot long "S" then have my buddy do a big posi smoker throught the middle of it. ka-ching! LOL our rival highschool hated that in the middle of their football field too.
I grew out of all that so I don't recommend any of it. Too many blowed up trannies in my time. But I did learn how to rebuild em?!?

[Hidro]

If you want to have some real fun mount up some studded snow tires!

lol good stuff, :angel:

[Bandit]

HAHAHA You're pretty gangster man! The only thing better than performing a massive smokefest in front of your neighbor's house would be doing it while she was walking her poodle down the sidewalk next to you! If you ever do it make sure the video gets on the internet!

I do think we should respect our neighbor's wishes as much as possible but that said, she is being very petty. Reminds me of my neighbor who lives downstairs from me, he b1tches every time I start up my car, since his bedroom is on the other side of my garage wall. Normally I park the car nose-first in the garage, but when I feel really mean I back in and put both exhaust tips against the wall and rev it up to 5500 rpm. He says his picture frames fall off the wall and I believe it!

Paul

[vanzuuk1]

My buddy and I (zupersport) were leaving a deli in my 4 speed dodge van with a worked 318 and I baked the tires from a standstill. A short old lady had walked out and the smoke rose up around her like she was gene simmons and she dissapeared.

If there is hell and I end up there, I am sure that will be discussed.


Another time I left a gas station full of hot rods and smoked the tires from around the pumps and sideways out in to the street. The car approaching from my right? Detective in a caprice.When the other cops swarmed into the station one cop heard the story and asked "was it a blue camaro with black wheels?" the first cop said " all I saw was tailights and smoke,and then he was gone!"

And yes, i did have a blue 69 with black wheels. After someone told me that my car was the first one the cops mentioned. thought of I decided it was time to calm down a little.

It might be cool to have a contest for old burnout photos, mullets and centerlines from back in the day.

[Bandit]

If there is hell and I end up there, I am sure that will be discussed.


LOL
Well since we're sharing stories I have another of which I am not so proud--Once when I was a young dumb guy I tore out of the fairgrounds gravel parking lot in my old '79 Trans Am to impress some girls. It was just like a scene from Smokey and the Bandit--dirt and gravel flying everywhere. The girls were suitably impressed, but the Harley dude who had been riding right behind me definitely was NOT. He pulled up next to me on the road, and yelled "So you like to spray people's bikes with rocks, huh?" I had totally failed to notice that he was behind me when I took off. I felt really bad in retrospect. If he had hauled me out of the car at a stop light and given me the butt-whoopin' I rightfully deserved, I probably wouldn't feel so guilty about it now. If I were to do something stupid like that today, I would probably stop and settle with the poor guy, unless he was waving a gun or something.

I guess the moral of the story is think before you act--something that my parents tried to teach me from day one, but I am a little slow to pick it up sometimes! I am much more considerate of others nowadays, except with my downstairs neighbor of course, because he deserves it! :hah:

Paul

[Jim Nilsen]

Looking before you leap is always a good way not to hit the bottom in the shallow end. Ever since I stopped using a radar detector I quit getting tickets. It's a habit to not trust any car as it could be a cop and if not it could be someone with a cell phone who will call in my plate, they can do that you know! So yes I like speed and wish I could get my car done so I could run at Road America and go as fast as it can go.:fingersx:

Jim Nilsen

[64Comet]

Since we are throwing around stories...a friend of mine had a 10.5" Outlaw drag car. 76 Disco Camaro, sick fast, full on drag car only it had a tag. Insert me, deviant, I talk him in to a cruise around the block. We decide we are going to take it for a spin, well he hops in, I hop in on the passenger no seat side and we're off. We head to this lower income area with lots of mobile homes/trailers and proceed to do a NASTY burnout and rip it for a block or two, seriously worked BBC, open headers and all. As we turn around to make another pass, some cat in a van chases us down, so we are now heading toward each other playing chicken. He runs us off the road and we get back on the street and his barefooted wife comes running at us swinging an empty Jack Daniels bottle. No kidding or embelishing! At this point we are laughing so hard that we can hardly contain our selves. The barefoot lady wielding a Jack Daniels bottle was just the pinnacle of the area! We swerved to avoid being hit by a Jack Daniels bottle and hit the main road and just ripped it. That thing moved faster than any car I had EVER ridden in. We pulled in to his garage batman style with the garage door closing right behind us. We laughed because we figured the lady didnt hit us with the bottle because she probably realized upon closer inspection that the 10.5" Outlaw Camaro was worth more than her trailer and property 10 fold! The tracks were there for years!!! We laughed everytime we drove by!

[PhillipM]

It's not THAT bad!

I just live in an "Hoitie Toitie" area.

The Chicago winter and salt will remove most of it.

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You oughta move down here to Arizona... I've got a buddy that 80 percent of his neighbor hood either actively races in different sanctions or is a car enthusiest. Needless to say their entire neighborhood looks like that!!

PS. This is no run down place either. I think all the homes in there are $1Mil. and up :bananna2:

[wheelz]

I'd move.:drive2:

Seriously though, I would think that anything that would remove the rubber would damage the asphalt as well. About the only thing that will get rid of them is time.

Tell her that they need to wear off and that you can try to wear them off if she want you to. Then procede to remove them by driving up and stopping right on top of them and do another burnout. When her jaw hits the floor just say sorry I guess that work!