98 camaro Z28

bufferbarry · 05-19-09, 06:18

Hey guys after seeing all this great work you guys are posting I thought I would share one of the cars I had the pleasure of doing this weekend. This car was scheduled about a month ago and I was eager to make her mint! So here we go!

Decontamination

Dawn Wash
Motor - Meg APC Diluted 50/50
Door Jams - Meg APC Diluted 50/50
Tires / wheel wells / undercarriage - Meg APC Diluted 50/50
Wheels- Meg. Wheel Brightener
Paint- Ardex Fallout Remover
Dawn Wash
Final Rinse

Paint Prep

Micro-surface sheets 4000-12000
3m tape

Compounding

Ardex 1000 Black 6.5 Micro Surface Wool
M205 Meg. Yellow Wool

Polishing

3m Ultrafina Blue Ultrafina 3m pad
3m Ultrafina White 6 inch Edge Finish Pad

A straight spray and wipe of IPA 91% was performed at every step till this point.

LSP

Wolfgang Deep Paint Gloss Paint Sealant
Topped with Wolfgang Fuzion *2

Interior

Ardex New Wave Degreaser diluted 4/1. Various brushes and tools were used.

Wheels

Paint polished with M205 topped with Colinites 845. Rubber Received a treatment of Ardex Back to Black. Wheel wells were treated with 3M undercoating.

Windows

Stoner's invisible glass cleaner, Rhodite Glass Polishing Compound.

Now onto some before pictures!

Now as you can see this car clearly was dirty from everyday where and tear. On white cars I try to spend alot of time during the decontamination stage of the detail. Proper prep makes a lot of the later work much easier.

First I scrubbed the motor down and rinsed clean, then as I began to inspect the wheels I found they suffered from years of build up so I decided to remove all wheels and give a though scrubbing.

Here is what the wheel wells looked like.

By agitating every aspect of the wheel and rotor, and under carriage she looked a little better.

Even the bushing got clean.

A caliper close up

Then I moved onto the wheels. I clean them with Meg wheel Brightener and agitated with a wheel brush. Once rinsed I remounted the wheel and began to clean the center cap with Meg Apc.

I know you're thinking why clean the back of the center cap? It just felt right for me to do.

Setec Astronomy · 05-19-09, 06:23

So wait a minnit...there's a center cap to cover the lug nuts...that has fake lug nuts in it...

dave40co · 05-19-09, 06:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Setec Astronomy

So wait a minnit...there's a center cap to cover the lug nuts...that has fake lug nuts in it...

Kinda standard with a lot of GM products.

bufferbarry · 05-19-09, 06:34

At this point I began to repeat the whole process to the other wheel wells. Then I moved onto finishing up all the rest of the decontamination phase.Then I pulled the car from my wet bay and inspected the paint throughly. At this point I Taped it up and began to start the leveling phase here are a few pics.

Although I had a tuff time trying to capture the defects in the paint with my camera I was able to get a decent 50/50 shot here for ya

After the compounding and polishing stages I moved to the interior and gutted the seats to ensure a Full interior cleaning was done.

The t-tops were removed and this is what I found.

Here is a 50/50 after using my tornador interior cleaning tool

Here is a finished shot

At this point I finished up the interior and began to dress everything up and lay down wolf the lsp stage!

now for some final shots.

Here are a few interior shots that I captured.

bufferbarry · 05-19-09, 06:40

Now for some final shots.

This detail was a nice fun detail. the car didn't need a major correction like I'm use to, but it felt great to bring some life back into some good Ole American muscle! anyway thanks for looking God Bless!