LS7 powered ULTIMA GTR

[EBPcivicsi]

This ultima has been a project for quite sometime—the owner owns the speed shop where we use to rent space. He bought it as a rolling chasis, then installed a crate (well they opened up and did forged pistons, etc) LS7. The car was then painted…that’s where we came in.



When we received the car it was about one week out of the booth..the paint was soft, but we didn’t sand it. I have always felt that if you sand it, you buff it. Seems to me that when you don’t have to buff it one might not be as cautious when sanding edges, inaccessible areas, keeping the paper clean, etc. It didn’t matter, we just had to work a little harder to remove a few tracers…





The sanding marks were removed with M105/rotary orange pad. We did use some twisted wool on some tracers and we did resand a few areas to remove tracers.



We then moved to M105/flex orange pad, before finishing with M205/flex red ABP flat red pad.



The car was then washed and we applied OCW to the paint.



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The interior was covered with bodyshop dust…..

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Firewall was sanded too—this was not fun to correct!

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This was fun to buff without burning an edge!

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Doors were removed:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/ebpcivicsi/ultima/IMG_7307.jpg







In process—M105 behaves so differently on aftermarket paint, it was *definitely* designed for this purpose.

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Hereis an after shot of a door:

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Yep, sanded inside the doors too. :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/ebpcivicsi/ultima/IMG_7538.jpg



You can see that we are making a mess with the rotary—some of the “slopes” and curves required that the pad be “halfed” on the panel creating huge amounts of sling!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/ebpcivicsi/ultima/IMG_7747.jpg



The wing was sprayed with a translucent blue candy, then smoked:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/ebpcivicsi/ultima/IMG_7751.jpg



In this picture we are almost ready to wash her down---thank goodness!

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In the washbay:

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Random after pics:

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After the paint cured a little more, the final step was to create/install the paint protection film:

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[red4.8]

Is this the same car?

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc22/jwideman/Car%20pics/DSC02446.jpg

I saw this at the 2007 LSX shootout in Memphis TN. Very cool car.

[Autogeek]

Damn that is cool. In fact, that`s one of the coolest cars I`ve ever seen. Great job and thanks so much for sharing!

[speedfreek155]

I`d really like to do some laps Thunderbolt at NJMP in that baby . Power to weight has to be insane .

[LS1-MEX]

a really good friend of mine/customer owns SYNERGY MOTORSPORTS and he had an ultima at his shop getting tunned......those cars are amazing, also had an lsx engine......

[hitman34608]

Hey are you guys detailing Yo Gotti new Cutlass?



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[dsms]

Damn thats gleaming!

[Driven Auto Detail]

Wow, incredible work Joe!

[EBPcivicsi]

Hey are you guys detailing Yo Gotti new Cutlass?



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We do all of his cars...was in here in the panamara last week. We also do all of his manger`s vehciles......



red4.8...same same...



Thanks everyone!

[stilez]

Joe: What a cool vehicle to work on! I saw two of them racing through the streets of London when I was there two years ago. Tremendous work on correcting the difficult angles.

[EBPcivicsi]

Joe: What a cool vehicle to work on! I saw two of them racing through the streets of London when I was there two years ago. Tremendous work on correcting the difficult angles.



Man, long time no see! shoot me an email (joeatwordofmouthdetailingdotcom)sometime, maybe you c an get to Memphis one of these days! Hope all is well with you and yours! Thank you...



The owner actually went to london to check the vehicle out before purchasing this one.

[imported_DJ Mayo]

Excellent job guys! Thank you for sharing, I enjoy your post

[Thomas Dekany]

Fantastic work Joe! Good to see you posting! :bow