Between being busy and lazy, I am backed up by over 40 cars for the click and brag (so backed up that I will never catch up).
This one is a cool car though, because it is the Bella Macchina Porsche. It will be entered in a lot of shows this summer so it has to be perfect. It is a 1983 Porsche 911 (930) Turbo. The engine was rebuilt recently (and supped up considerably) as it now produces just shy of 415 horsepower at the rear wheels (as opposed to 260ish stock).
The rear tires are 345's, and in first gear, the Porsche will spin them like crazy. It does have some serious turbo lag, but once turbo spools, this thing shoots down the road like crazy. (The 1983 Porche Turbo's are gray market cars from Europe, meaning they are seriously light).
In prepping the car for the show circut, I would say a total of 30 hours (or more) was put into the body prep.
The paint was heavily scratched and had light oxidation. After washing with
Meguiars Hyperwash and claying with
Sonus Gray, the car was pulled into the garage. It took a little shy of 2 hours to tape up the body and trim.
We then spent another hour measuring the paint thickness, and found it to average about 3.7 mils, with the hood ranging from 3.5 to 8!
Under the halogen's, the driver side door had some serious water etching and pock marking.
Here is a
50/50 of the driver's side door to show how much damage was on the paint and the improvement that was made.
Here is a close up of the same area....
Door before...
The damage required heavy compounding to remove all the RIDS and water damage/staining.
3M Extra Cut PI-3000 was applied for 2 to 3 passes using a
Lake Country Purple Wool Pad on my Makita.
It left the finish "worse" looking
After ensuring the all defects where removed,
Menzerna SIP was used on an Orange
Lake Country Pad (7.5 inch CCS) to clean up the wool marring...
Then the paint was cleaned up further with 106ff on a
Meguiars' So1o finishing pad.
The rear fender recieved the same treatement...
Again with the rear of the rear fender, the paint was cut to remove defects, then polished, then refined. The goal was to remove 25 years worth of damage and bring this car all the way back.
The door handle cups had 25 years worth of scratches which required
Menzerna SIP on a green German foam block for about 8 passes (a 4 minutes a pass
). Then the finish was refined with
Meguiars Scratch X using a
Meguiar's Applicator.
After
Driver's side front fender before...
Crop and zoom of the same spot before...
Crop and zoom of the same spot after...
Original view after...
The mirrors got the full treatment. Unfortunately, because this is a 25 year old car with 70,000 miles, there is some road abrasion and rock damage to the paint (that will be touched up and wetsanded out later on).
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