white gecko
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This one came to me after the city was responsible for getting a bunch of black road paint all over it. When they finally paid up, the owner brought it in for some major correction work. Its a serious car too. Full bolt ons + supercharger running some pretty good boost (sounded amazing). The guy races the car frequently at the track too (road racing I believe). I was grinning like a kid each time I moved it around. Just hearing the supercharger respond to the slightest throttle response constantly put a smile on my face!!
There is right around 24 hours into this Corvette. The hood and rear bumper were repainted a few years ago, also when the chameleon Grand Sport stripes were painted and cleared over. The car has 103k miles on it and is HEAVILY tracked, which is why it has the tow hitch and mud flaps. He trailers his race tires to the track and the flaps keep rocks from destroying the lower half of the paint from rocks flung from the race tires. It wasn't set out to be a 100% job, but I was very happy to get somewhere around 90-95% correction out of it. Anyway, enjoy the pics!
Process:
Exterior
-Foamed with Dawn
-Rinsed and Dawn wash
-Megs APC 4:1 on wheels/tires
-Swissvax Wheel brush
-Megs Aggressive clay and Megs LT as lube
-Tires with Zaino Z16
Interior
-Vacuumed
-Leather with Megs APC 10:1
-Zaino Z10 conditioner
-Stoner's Invisible Glass on windows
-vents and console cleaned with various brushes/qtips
Correction
-Megs 105 on PFW LC 6.5 - rotary
-Menzerna SIP on LC orange 5.5 - rotary
-Menzerna 106FA on LC white 5.5 - PC
LSP
-Zaino Z5pro
-Zaino Z6
Starting with this...
The rear bumper was one of the repainted parts and had excessive orange peel and very soft paint. The overspray was soo heavy it required aggressive clay. The scary thing about this overspray is that it was STILL resistant to the clay!! The only option was to put some pressure behind it, which is typically a no-no. This is an example why you don't put pressure behind the clay. No worries though as the first stage took it out without any problem at all
More swirly badness
There is right around 24 hours into this Corvette. The hood and rear bumper were repainted a few years ago, also when the chameleon Grand Sport stripes were painted and cleared over. The car has 103k miles on it and is HEAVILY tracked, which is why it has the tow hitch and mud flaps. He trailers his race tires to the track and the flaps keep rocks from destroying the lower half of the paint from rocks flung from the race tires. It wasn't set out to be a 100% job, but I was very happy to get somewhere around 90-95% correction out of it. Anyway, enjoy the pics!
Process:
Exterior
-Foamed with Dawn
-Rinsed and Dawn wash
-Megs APC 4:1 on wheels/tires
-Swissvax Wheel brush
-Megs Aggressive clay and Megs LT as lube
-Tires with Zaino Z16
Interior
-Vacuumed
-Leather with Megs APC 10:1
-Zaino Z10 conditioner
-Stoner's Invisible Glass on windows
-vents and console cleaned with various brushes/qtips
Correction
-Megs 105 on PFW LC 6.5 - rotary
-Menzerna SIP on LC orange 5.5 - rotary
-Menzerna 106FA on LC white 5.5 - PC
LSP
-Zaino Z5pro
-Zaino Z6
Starting with this...
The rear bumper was one of the repainted parts and had excessive orange peel and very soft paint. The overspray was soo heavy it required aggressive clay. The scary thing about this overspray is that it was STILL resistant to the clay!! The only option was to put some pressure behind it, which is typically a no-no. This is an example why you don't put pressure behind the clay. No worries though as the first stage took it out without any problem at all
More swirly badness
My bad.