So I have always loved this Z and how aggressive it is, especially after the new wheels and for how SLAMMED it is. The one thing always hurting it was how incredibly swirled the paint was. That much swirling really takes away from the look of a car. You can have an absolutley amazing car but if it's swirled up really bad, it just takes away from the car. So with HIN coming up, Neil and I were FINALLY able to set up a time to bet this beast taken care of!
I'd like to send a huge thanks to Chris for helping some with this detail. Chris had seen the last Z I did and offered up some help if I ever needed it and with the baby here and all, I hate spending ALL weekend doing cars. So I saw some pics Chris had posted here and liked his work too and asked if he'd lend a hand and he did. So later in the day on Friday he came over and polished part of the car and then I polished the rest on Saturday. Here's the basic process....
Washed her up with Megs Gold class
Wheels were cleaned with
Meguiar’s All Purpose Cleaner Plus
Clayed the car with
Meguiars clay
polished car with
Menzerna SIP, 106FF, and
Meguiars M105
1 Layer of Danase Wet Glaze
Sealed the car with Ultima Paint Guard Plus
Waxed car with P21S
Wiped car down with Zaino Z-8
Engine was cleaned with Megs All Purpose Cleaner and CD2 Engine Detailer
Tires were finished off with Zaino Z-16
Spokes on wheels were done with Wheel Wax and wheels were polished with
Meguiar’s
NXT All Metal Polish.
So here's the pics!
Here's a pic of the carbon fiber hood. Notice how the sun reflecting is more of a blob than a crisp reflection?
Polishing the hood wasn't easy because you couldn't use a lot of pressure or you'd crack it. Here it is after polishing, you can see how the suns reflection is much more crisp and pin pointed.
Here's a half & half shot. Top half not polished, bottom polished
Here's the hatch before...ouch!
and after
Here's some half and half shots
Here's the passanger side hatch before...more ouch
the after is BUTTER!!
Front fender before
Front fender after
Rear bumper before
Rear bumper after!!!
Exhaust before
Exhaust after
Here's a pic of part of the carbon fiber front lip. Notice again how the reflection is more of a blob opposed to a crisp reflection.
Here it is after. We couldn't believe how all the carbon fiber totally came back to life after being polished.
another carbon part before
and after
Here is the engine before. It wasn't really bad. I just gave everything a good scrubbing, polished the carbon fiber pieces, waxed the intake and polished the strut bar with mothers metal polish.
Engine after
Front Wheels before
Wheel after
Rear wheel before
After
Ok, here are the final car shots.
So there you have it. Thanks for looking and thanks again to Chris for lending a hand!!!!
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