My painful black RX7

[metal]

More progress and photos down the page





I have the whole week off work, so I`m probably gonna do a lil bit of the car each day. Started off tonight with the left fender, front bumper and part of the spraybombed hood. Now, it seems like this left fender, and the drivers door are about 3x more heavily marred than the rest of the paint on the car for some reason, and even more oddly enough for black single stage paint, it was rock HARD!



I started off with wool via rotary and Megs #83, and Hi Temp Extreme Cut, 5-6 times and it barely did anything to it!! Finished up with a LC VCC polishing pad and OP, threw some RMG on it and topped it with S100 and called it a night for now. Its a big improvement, but still, I probably only got 75% of the marring out.



Befores

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture001-3.jpg



http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture002-2.jpg



Bumper was oxidized and is spidering

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture003-2.jpg



Hood was oxidized (it was also spraybombed black from red)

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture004-3.jpg



Bumper half way done, noticeable difference.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture005-1.jpg



Afters

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture006-3.jpg



http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture007-1.jpg



http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture009-1.jpg



http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture008-2.jpg

[imported_Jayhawker]

Just because you have a Porsche, that doesn`t mean you neglect the Mazda!!!!!!!!! Just seeing the headlights, that looks a thousand times better. Can`t wait to see the outcome.

[metal]

Did the left side today, wheels are off and the back jacked up cus I was cleaning and painting my hubs + rear calipers, as well as trying to install my racing beat rear camber adjuster.



Process I used for this side was

Wash

Clay

Megs #83 on a wool pad via rotary x2 on a couple panels

Optimum Polish on a white LC CCS pad via rotary

S100 as a topper



Befores

You can see how different the door and the rest of the car look in their pre-polished state for some reason.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture017.jpg



http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture018.jpg



Afters

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture019.jpg



http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture020.jpg



http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture023.jpg



http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture021.jpg



http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture022-1.jpg

[Redfire03]

Wow looks real good!

[Saleenfan]

WOW thats like night and day dude Very nice work!

[awahl63]

Very impressive progress

[metal]

OMGZ sunshine outside for once!

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/rmetal/Black%20GX/Picture024.jpg



Finally some light after this winter!

[rx7_FD]

Do you post on the rx7 club?

[cesarx7]

Great job!! Nice FC too...

[metal]

rx7_FD, yeah I do, I posted this same thread in the 2nd gen non tech subforum.

[SpoiledMan]

Back to badass! Nice work!