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Old 11-13-08, 02:41   #1 (permalink)
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Presidential Detailed: 2001 Honda S2000 TURBO!!

This is the former S&R Racing car here in Tampa, a friend of mine picked the car up about a month or two ago and gave me a call to get it cleaned up for a show coming up. I must say, Ive seen the car before and was a little nervous with all the fiberglass molding and unsure condition of the paint. The entire front end is all aftermarket and I wasnt sure how the paint was going to hold up either, since it had cracked in a couple spots due to the flexing of the kit. Basically I told Rob, that I could make the car look a whole lot better, but was a little nervous to go for a full correction and he agreed. I ended up going at it with SIP/Orange and following with PO85rd/black and got very good results, actually night and day but the deeper swirling and some deeper scratched remained. Well on to the pics..

Exterior:
Dawn Soap Pre-Wash
Optimum Car Wash-Final Wash
COBRA UMF Wash Mitt
COBRA Deluxe "Jr" MF's
Dual Buckets with Grit Guards
3m Masking Tape
Adams Professional Clay Bar
P21S TAW
Meguairs APC+
Meguairs Hyperdressing
Menzerna SIP/Orange
Menzerna PO85rd/Black
Menzerna Top Inspection
Tons of Uber MF Towels(AP)
Black WOW
Griots Garage Wheel Cleaner Gel
Swissvax Pneu


LSP:
Lusso Oro applied with Uber Foam Applicator

Tools:
Dual Work Lamps
Dewalt Hi Speed Rotary
World's Greatest Boar's Hair Wheel Brush
Foam Pad Cleaning Brush
DD Detail Sponge
The Wheel Well/Fender Brush
The Spoke Brush
Canon Rebel XTi
Craftsmen 295MPH Vac/Blow
E-Z Detail Wheel Brush
Swissvax Wheel Brush

BEFORE:


Some pretty serious water etching..








There was quite a bit of hologramming from a previous detailer..
















 
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Re: Presidential Detailed: 2001 Honda S2000 TURBO!!

We took the wheels off to clean up the undercarriage..












Wheel After..


Then we worked on the undercarriage..
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Rob being the helper he is, tightening the lugs..
 
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Re: Presidential Detailed: 2001 Honda S2000 TURBO!!

Now in the halogens..












50/50 on the hood with SIP/Orange..


 
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Re: Presidential Detailed: 2001 Honda S2000 TURBO!!

Taping off the edges to polish the inner rim of the vent..


A couple more before/afters..




















And the rest of the afters in the halogens..there wasnt much sun where I was working..not to mention the tent I had to use because there was no garage accessible.


















Couple of the sun shots I managed to get..


 
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Now finally finished..






















And finally my favorite..I love to see the cars bead up after I finish them!


One on the way to the show that my GF took, I just cropped it.
 
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You did an amazing job!

I do have to mention though, when I saw the pics I said "Johnny Tran" outloud.
 
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Re: Presidential Detailed: 2001 Honda S2000 TURBO!!

Nice man that looks 1000x better. I like the reflection shots of the hood showing the canopy.
 
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You did an amazing job!

I do have to mention though, when I saw the pics I said "Johnny Tran" outloud.

Its ok, I removed the "snowflake ninja star thingies" right before taking pics..
 
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Nice man that looks 1000x better. I like the reflection shots of the hood showing the canopy.
The canopy makes for some great photography at night! haha!
 
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Re: Presidential Detailed: 2001 Honda S2000 TURBO!!

Ahh, do I love that Car...I was just telling myself, I want a turbo'd s2000! That super hard to find, or super expensive! I'll find one though! Great work on the car...looks really good!
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Awesome correction work Billy, looks super!
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Thanks!
 
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