Dodge Viper Detail

[ihaveacamaro]

I made a video of the exhaust on this beast car here: Dodge Viper Modded Exhaust - YouTube (http://youtu.be/XXQe-9TLEm4)



This is a 2001 Dodge Viper with 589 HP AT THE WHEELS!!!



Much like Camaros, the clear coat on this paint was rock hard. I was able to one step it with M105 for about 85-90% correction.



This detail is going to go on for a few weekends at least, so here`s just a teaser. I was only able to remove all the stupid stickers and correct the hood and roof.



Products used:



Heat Gun

Speedy Prep Towel

Ultima Waterless Wash Plus Concentrate

Griots Garage 6" DA

Meguiars M105

Optimum Microfiber Cutting Pad

Brilliant Glaze

Americana Paste Wax



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After claying, the paint is a swirled mess!



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Sun went down, so no true after sun shots unfortunately :/



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Roof:



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[maxepr1]

Nice work! Good friend of mine has Bobby Archer coach his son in racing, real nice guy. You think that exhaust is cool go to a Viper meet at a track near you, 35 out there at once! That`s exhaust!

[Scottwax]

Nice work on that freakishly hard paint!

[ihaveacamaro]

Nice work! Good friend of mine has Bobby Archer coach his son in racing, real nice guy. You think that exhaust is cool go to a Viper meet at a track near you, 35 out there at once! That`s exhaust!



Thanks! Ha! 35 Vipers would be deafeningly loud!!




Nice work on that freakishly hard paint!



Thanks! And yeah I was really surprised, it took M105 and a cutting microfiber pad on a griots to even put a dent in the paint!

[Ron Ketcham]

Looks really good!

As an added note, that paint system is PPG.

Pretty much Chrysler`s standard paint system for the last 10 years or so for US builds.

[ihaveacamaro]

Looks really good!

As an added note, that paint system is PPG.

Pretty much Chrysler`s standard paint system for the last 10 years or so for US builds.



Thank you for the added info! Do you know if GM uses PPG as well?

[Ron Ketcham]

US and Canadian builds? Not sure the past two years,however from 2000 on probably 90% are PPG. At one time DuPont had a large part of their business, however as time as passed PPG has gained the biggest part.

Of course the clear was "hard", it`s had going on what, 12 years, to compact.

[gmblack3]

I believe most of the gen 2 vipers were painted by saleen.



prefix will be painting all the new vipers:



http://mtv.mihomepaper.com/news/2012-11-22/Sports/PREFIX_READY_TO_PAINT_VIPER_AT_NEW_JOSLYN_ROAD_FAC .html



The 2 I saw at the NAAS last month still had some pigtails and holograms i could see on white and yellow. The gen 2 black 08 ACR I did has a lot of pigtails.