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[imported_JoshVette]

Hey all, I had a crazy slow Jan and all of the sudden got swamped with full corrections and concourse details so I'm just now getting around to posting up January's cars.



Hope you enjoy.



First up is an 05 Maseratti Quattroporte.

I did a full correction on this car.



The Process:

Interior:

Dusted

Vacuumed

303 Wipe down

All leather cleaned and conditioned with Zaino Z10

After polishing the paint all the door jambs, nooks and crannies were wiped down to remove the dust.



Here's a couple shots of the engine bay after a simple wipe down with a damp MF towel.

After a thorough two bucket wash and claying I inspected the paint in the sunlight to find very very light swirling, it was not much at all. Previous owner cared well for her since it's barely got 10K miles on it, plus the silver grey metallic is very forgiving when it come to swirls.



My polishing process was as such.

All top surfaces recieved a two step while sides got a one step with the rotary.



Two bucket wash,

Clayed with Meg's white clay

Polished with Menz IP with White LC pad at 1500rpms

Finished down with Menz FPII with Black LC pad at 1100 and jeweled at 900rpms

Sealed with Zaino AIO and ZCS



Here's a couple afters in direct sunlight.



ah beautiful flakes

More pics to come....

 

[imported_JoshVette]

A few more full glamour shots

Next up a little red something for your tastebuds....

 

[imported_JoshVette]

This is a red Ferrari 360 I detailed for a high end exotic mod and maintaince shop.



It's only a very very basic detail, no polishing, no correction, just good, clean, slick and conditioned.



Basically the interior was fully dusted, vacuumed, all panels and leathers wiped down with 303 and conditioned with Zaino Z10

Door jambs got wiped down with Z8 since it leaves such an incredible slickness and shine, I love it in door jambs.



Exterior:

Two Bucket Wash,

Leaf blow dry

Paint shined with Gloss It Enhancer QD

Tires got Meg's Hyper Shine 2.5:1 ratio

Rim lips got Dirtex cleaner



Results

 

[imported_JoshVette]

Next up is an 09 Black GT-R



Process on the interior is exactly the same as on the previous two.

The interior is not actually as white as it looks, the flash from the carmera really makes it look white, but it's actually a very pale light grey.



Exterior

Two bucket wash

Clayed with Meg's white clay

Leaf blow dry

Polished with Zaino AIO with LC white pad with PC

Z5 and ZCS in later visits



Pictures may not look so great due to the lateness

More F cars and P cars to come, but I've got to finish an NSX in my garage right now before tomorrow......

 

[Apollo_Auto]

Nice work, Josh! Being swamped with those doesn't seem to be so awful

 

[Pats300zx]

Beautiful work Josh. Looks like business is booming

 

[Holden_C04]

There certainly are advantages to living in the southern states. Nice work, Josh. Is that an inline-6 on the Quattroporte?

 

[imported_JoshVette]

Nice work, Josh! Being swamped with those doesn't seem to be so awful

Thanks, I don't mind them either.... nice to have good clientele.

Beautiful work Josh. Looks like business is booming

Thanks, It was actually a really slow month in Jan, I'm just now starting to get busy again. I'm not done posting up, got a few more to share, just will have to wait a few more hours.

There certainly are advantages to living in the southern states. Nice work, Josh. Is that an inline-6 on the Quattroporte?

If I'm not mistaken, it a V block with 8 cylinders. If you look closely you can see the red valve covers on either side which would indicate the V block. It sounded nice when I cranked it anyways.....:chuckle:





I still have more cars too post up about, just been busy and will get to them later today.

Josh

 

[imported_JoshVette]

Here's another full correction I did on an 07 F430.



The owner wanted absolute perfection and we didn't get it all finished in one day so I'll have to go back on my next trip to Houston to finish it off.



After washing and inspecting in the sun there really was not any swirls, only buffer trails all over the car.



Tail end

Hood

It's hard to see but there are holograms in the roof here.

Driver front fender

Understanding that the only type of correction needed here is finishing down someone elses work along with Ferrari paint being on the soft side my process was:



Wash,

Leaf blow dry

Rotary with black finish pad and Menz FPII at 1200rpms and jeweled at 900.



I did a test section then backed out into the sun for inspection, I taped off the car right after I tested.... opps

There was a spot of burned paint on the hood that was done by the previous person who buffed the car, we made sure to tape it off since the paint would be extra thin there.

This is why you inspect the paint first

Burned paint taped off to ensure safety.

It turned out well, the sun was in a different place 5 hours later so the angles are different.

After I did the correction/finishing down of the paint, Jason (mobilejay) followed up behind me with some Optiseal.

Basically this was an easy one, we just washed it, did a final polish and sealed it.:bigups



Some afters

Of course we cleaned up the interior a bit too and gave the engine bay a good wipe down.

Engine bay

Glamour shots to come

 

[imported_JoshVette]

I've got a few more cars to post up about.....

 

[Eisen Hulk]

Nice work, Josh. I love the F430! Very slick.

 

[WhiteStripes]

Very nice work.



The black 430 looks phenomenal.

 

[Barry Theal]

josh nice as always man! great work. im getting really busy myself the calls keep coming its crazy how this business is isn't it!

 

[Todd@RUPES]

There certainly are advantages to living in the southern states. Nice work, Josh. Is that an inline-6 on the Quattroporte?

Maserati's use a 'version' of the 4.3L V8 found in the Ferrari F430. The block is the same. The intake, heads, cams, etc are different. Also the crankshaft is a 90degree throw vs. the 180 degree thrown in a Ferrari (in essence Ferrari's are more like two 4 cylinderss tied together where as the Maserati uses a more traditional firing).



The different angles of the crankshafts are which gives each engine a unique sound, the screaming of the Ferrari or the raspy growl of the Maserati.



Great work Josh, the F430 looks stunning (as well as the rest, the rear shot of the Maserati is breath taking!!!

 

[imported_JoshVette]

Nice work, Josh. I love the F430! Very slick.

Very nice work.



The black 430 looks phenomenal.

Thanks, despite the overuse of black I think the car looks great as well.

 

[imported_JoshVette]

josh nice as always man! great work. im getting really busy myself the calls keep coming its crazy how this business is isn't it!

It is crazy, I had a super slow Jan, then first week of Feb I have 3 full corrections and a concourse detail to do??? Go figure.

 

[imported_JoshVette]

Maserati's use a 'version' of the 4.3L V8 found in the Ferrari F430. The block is the same. The intake, heads, cams, etc are different. Also the crankshaft is a 90degree throw vs. the 180 degree thrown in a Ferrari (in essence Ferrari's are more like two 4 cylinderss tied together where as the Maserati uses a more traditional firing).



The different angles of the crankshafts are which gives each engine a unique sound, the screaming of the Ferrari or the raspy growl of the Maserati.



Great work Josh, the F430 looks stunning (as well as the rest, the rear shot of the Maserati is breath taking!!!

Nice info Todd, not too mention the Maseratti engine is in the front so there's significant power loss through the drive train.



Josh

 

[DetailnByDustn]

Great work on all! What type of vette do you own c5?

 

[imported_artikxscout]

i like how it's not the usual ferrari reds that you normally see. Great job on the car, is the owner going to get that burned fixed?

 

[imported_JoshVette]

Great work on all! What type of vette do you own c5?

Thanks, I sold it, but it was an 02 Coupe fully loaded with triple plated chrome rims, borla pipes, vararam intake, lowered and lots of extra fun....

i like how it's not the usual ferrari reds that you normally see. Great job on the car, is the owner going to get that burned fixed?

Thanks, I don't know about the burn, I doubt he fixed it.



I do see a lot of red ferrari's though, just got done doing a red 430 a week ago. I haven't posted up in a while and am well over due but I have so many cool cars to c/b about that I dont' even know where to start....



this is an old thread, funny to see it coming back up, needless to say I was slow for that one month and have not rested much since then, way busy.



Josh