The Ferrari F40 was an evolution of the 308/328/288GTO and was the last Ferrari comissioned by Enzo Ferrari himself. The F40 put race car performance into the hands of lucky individuals through out the world. The idea was performance through good power and very light weight. The body was made from a mixture of kevlar, carbon fiber, and aluminum, and the absense of sound deadening, radio, and even door handles led to a low weight of only 2450 lbs, or about 50 more then the MUCH smaller Lotus Elise. Coupled with a 2.9 liter V-8 boosted by twin turbocharges and developing 471 horsepower (many people report then engine developed closer to 490), the F40 was an amazing performer (even compared to modern supercars 20 years later) reaching 62MPH from a stand in about 3.5 seconds and being the first production car to top 200 miles per hour.
Even though car only required very light polishing (the paint was soft and VERY thing, with the kevlar weave apparent in certain areas), the paint cleaned up very nicely, knocking out 90 percent of the swirls with a Z-PC and a portercable! And even then, only about 50 percent of the body had swirl marks, so the polishing portion took less then 45 minutes! The rest of the detail (over two days) was cleaning and detailing every nook and cranny and making sure the car was ready for the Winter Park Concours show.
Products/Procedure Outline
Wash with Zaino Z7 and foam gun
Clay with Zaino Z18 clay using dilluted Z7 lube
Lightly polish with Z-PC using a White
CCS pad and Zaino Z-PC
DeepFinish Deep SWAX x 3 (two coats on the first day, 1 coat on the second day)
Meg's APC in a sprayer (10:1) on suspension and engine components
Meg's #39 on faded plastics, #40 to protect
303
Aerospace protectant on rubber
Meg's Hypershine 3:1 on spark plug wires, frame rails..
Zaino AIO on glass, rims, door jambs, ect..
Plexus Plastic Polish on Lexan rear windowns and trunk window
Mothers Syn FX on tires
Overall about 12 hours where spent detailing the car, and getting into every area accessiable to clean. Lots of qtips and Megs APC later...
The Z7 was allowed to dwell for 5 minutes...
After rinsing and sheeting the water off, the car was dried with a highspeed leaf blower to remove water from the various areas...
You can see how low the F40 really is...
Opened up and getting detailed to the wee hours of the morning...
Many hours where spent detailing the engine, suspension, trunk, ect...
I am really enjoying the show car aspect of detailing (focusing less on paint correct, though that is still vital, but finding the dirty areas and making them perfect). One of the things I have realized is that you are never done. Sometimes you have to take the car to a very high level to see the little things that need work. Here, some compound residue from a previous detailer was sticking out like a sore thumb in the door handle.
Much better (megs APC and qtips)
The second day of detailing consisted of more of the same, with an additonal layer of SWAX, and more q-tipping and tire/rim/wheel/suspension/brakes/ect detailing
About 3 hours where spent cleaning each vent (this car has a lot of them) and dressing them with the correct products)...
Outside with the third coat of SWAX applied...
Ready for the show!!!
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