Prep for magazine cover and SEMA

[Dylan@Adams]

Got another magazine write up coming... heres a little bit of the action from the owner of the truck. I'll post more pics/info as I get it. Absolutely insane truck... extremely well done. I took no pictures as this was a pretty big project and time was limited. Waiting for more of the before/after shots from the owner, I'll update this and scan in a copy of the magazine articles when they're complete.

Originally Posted by usabodyguard

So after a couple of years I finally linked up with dylan to detail my truck for a photoshoot Tuesday... I was fortunate enough to be asked by Truckin' magazine to grace the COVER of their upcoming HP issue. Ive spent two years building this truck and we are finally just about finished, other than a few odds and ends she is done - after the photoshoot the truck is planned to goto SEMA with Wilwood Brakes, it will be a feature vehicle. Anyways... here is the write up I posted on performancetrucks.net, so some of the info might be redundant lol.


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So saturday Dylan from adams polishes came up to detail my truck with his buddy anthony...
We started at 9am sat morning and went until dark...
here is the truck before we started...


First step - clean the wheels

Next they have a *****en soap/foam machine that they cover the entire truck in soap/foam...

Before they touch the paint, the wash off all of the soap, then reapply another application of soap/foam and then proceed to washing the truck with adams wash pads

Then they rinse it off, the dry it with adams drying cloths, after which the blow it dry with a leaf blower (my wet/dry vac from sears doubles as a leaf blower - highly recommended!)


The detail products!


Inspecting the NEW paint and all of the swirls -

Orange pad with achine polish... hard at work dylan!






Time for the fine polishing... white pad with a SMALL amount of product! I learned that a LITTLE product goes a long way.



Inspecting the results - this is BEFORE any wax!! No more swirls, yaaaaa

time for some VRT in the engine bay

two coats of Americana wax - this stuff is insane!


the powerplant - forged 427 LSX with a TVS 2300 SC.


I could not get final pics because it was already dark out, and today there were several CLOSE fires in the area so I left her inside - I will get some final pics on tuesday.

Big thanks to Dylan and Anthony, two very good guys who worked their asses off. I highly recommend them - IF you can get an appointment!!

[ZimRandy]

Sweet truck.


It looks like cramped quarters for buffing! I bet it was tough to stand back to look and inspect your work?

I'm always amazed at the amount of SEMA vehicles that aren't properly detailed. Glad to see one done right!

Randy

[MuttGrunt]

looks great - a lot of awesome during/action shots and I look forward to seeing the actual article

[Dylan@Adams]

Originally Posted by ZimRandy

Sweet truck.


It looks like cramped quarters for buffing! I bet it was tough to stand back to look and inspect your work?

I'm always amazed at the amount of SEMA vehicles that aren't properly detailed. Glad to see one done right!

Randy

Yea, it was pretty tight in there, and bc the truck isn't tuned yet we were pushing it in and out by hand for inspection, wash, etc. This was a down and dirty get ready for a magazine shoot detail... I'd say its about 95% at this point... a more in depth job where we'll remove some defects left by the painter and get it perfected is planned shortly before it boards the trailer for SEMA next month.

Problem is the truck is in high demand. All the sponsors want their time with it, still needs to be tuned, driven, etc... I hope we can find time to get it completely prepped for the big show.