Grand Prix White NSX Detailed by Tru_Shine

[Tru_Shine]

So I was really excited about doing this NSX, this is a 1992 Grand Prix White NSX, a very rare color. they only made 300 in 1992 in this color. This car was #209 out of 300.



I started off with my normal routine on removing all dirt and any wax's or sealants on the paint surface. Honda clear coat is a VERY soft clear coat so I knew that I was in for some bad defects. Unless these cars are properly maintained, then it is real easy to marr up the surface.



Lets take a look at what I arrived to.

I began by spraying some Stoners Tarminator to remove the bugs and tar off the paint.

After that, I began to pre-spray the car off to dislodge any grit and prepare the surface for a good wash job.

My weapons of choice for the Prepping the car





5 gal bucket

Grit Guard

100% Sheep skin wash mitt

Dawn ultra concentrate

EZ detail brush small and large

Chemical Guys Diablo wheel Gel 3:1 ratio

misc wheel brush

spoke wheel brush

lug nut brush

P21s polishing soap

Clay magic blue fine Claybar

other misc bushes

The engine and front and rear trunk were really nasty. I used some APC, and red degreaser and scrubbed them using various brushes.

All areas were dressed with 303 aerospace protectant.

Next were the wheels. 17" for the front and 18" for the back Volk GT-N's

These wheels were absolutely horrid, these have been neglected for such along time, that getting them back to new wasn't going to happen. So I used some P21s Polishing soap along with some fine steel wool.

 

[Tru_Shine]

So I pulled the car inside and started the second stage of the prepping

I clayed the car using both the Blue Fine clay and Red Medium clay, Some areas were just to ruff for the blue fine.

Some areas had Really bad Rail Dust.

which needed some Red Clay

After the Clay step I began to tape up the car and all of the jams

I took measurements of the paint thickness and the scale was all over the place with low 5's to mid 8's

Now for the paint correction.



This paint was very soft and not to hard to level out.



Weapons of choice:



Flex 3401

Griot's 3" polisher

Rotary with various backing plates

Lake country Hydrotech pads (Cyan/Tangerine/Crimson)

Meguiars M105/M205

Black Fire Wet Diamond (Last step product)

This roof had some REALLY bad scratches and some pretty deep swirls

I decided to wet sand the deeper scratches on the roof using 1500 Eagle Bufflex disc dry sanding, and followed it up with 3000 grit wet sanding.



Then I Buffed it out with my Rotary buffer using a Lake country purple foamed wool pad on a meguiars W66 backing plate.

Followed up with 3000 grit.

then buffed it all smooth with Meguiars M105 compound and PFW pad via Rotary, then polished it with my FLEX 3401 and M205 Tangerine pad so there wouldn't be any swirls

The whole roof was wet sanded with 1500 then 3000 to remove 95% of the defects.

Next were the were pillers, These always show a lot of swirls and are at the most visible level on a car for a person to see.

I taped off a 50/50 to show the dramatic difference between the before and after

There were still a few little pits on the surface from acid rain over the past 18 years but overall came out great.



I used a Rotary buffer with a 3" Gloss it backing plate and a 3" Lake country Cyan pad. The Flex just didn't cut it hard enough being such a small tight area. after I leveled it out with the Rotary I polished with the Flex and M205/Tang pad.

now on to the back, the horizontal panels get the most sun and the most environmental damage from acid rain and the sun, bird poop and all of that, so my cyan/M105 combo didn't get the level of correction that I was looking for, so I upped my cutting ability a little by using the Purple foam wool pad to really give a good cut, but finish down amazingly.

 

[Tru_Shine]

I worked my way around the car from the pass. fender to the driver side. I was almost done going on Midnight.

After All of the compounding stage I polished with M205 and the lake country Crimson Ultra finishing pad

Then I applied the Black Fire Wet Diamond Sealant with a blue finishing pad via Flex 3401

The car was mostly finished up arround 12:30am, I had a few small things left to walk around and check, like the windows and jams all those small things. from 8:30am to 12:30am so 16 hours night 1 and then 2 more hours the next morning.

So the Next morning I woke up and took care of a few small things before the final pics were taken.



The insides of the door handles were severely scratches by fingernails over the years

I used some M105 on a Microfiber towel and rubbed the area until they were mostly gone.

NOW FOR THE FINAL SUN SHOTS from the next morning!!!!!! Drum roll please............

Just in case you forgot what It looked like before. here is a second glance

So while I was there I did a quick ONR wash on the Pontiac Solstice in the back ground. after the wash I applied a coat of Black Fire Wet Diamond

Thanks For Viewing!!! Have a Blessed Day!!!!

 

[2007TBSS]

Awesome!



And I appreciate the details on what polishes/machines you used.

 

[E300Diesel]

Lookin' Alright! :2thumbs: Nice Job!!

 

[Pats300zx]

Wow...very nice job. Is that the owner waiting for the car to be done? lol

 

[Labster]

Great detail Eric!

 

[RSWIM21]

Great Work. Car Is Now Classic Thanks To Your Hard Work. Thanks For The Great Play-by -play. Your Pal Seems To Be Quite Comfortable In His Chair , As You Toil??

Thank You!

 

[Tru_Shine]

Thanks everyone!

Wow...very nice job. Is that the owner waiting for the car to be done? lol

lol yeah, he is 22 and has had some CRAZY cars! both of those are his, he buys and sells alot all the time, I might have a thing set up with him now were I restore all of the cars he buys and have a set price since he would have so many.

Great Work. Car Is Now Classic Thanks To Your Hard Work. Thanks For The Great Play-by -play. Your Pal Seems To Be Quite Comfortable In His Chair , As You Toil??

Thank You!

LOL, yeah he didn't sit for the whole 18 hours but he did get comfortable, after paying someone the price he just paid me, I would just want to sit down too

 

[AuAltima3.5]

Nice job. Why did you choose 1500 on the roof scratch? (I am not attacking your approach, but did you hit it with 1500 first or was the lighter stuff not getting it?)



Man 22, and house/cars like that? If that was in the Farragut or Maryville area, I know that home wasn't cheap. Props to that guy.

 

[Apollo_Auto]

Nice work man . I'm liking that Solstice!

 

[Vista_Stang]

Nice work, please don't take this comment the wrong way but when I first saw one of the morning pics, the sky and clouds reflected so much that I thought you may have missed maybe wiping some LSP off or something. I was like no, no way he did that, then I noticed what I was looking at LOL.



Awesome job again!

 

[PhatHoodDetail]

nice job on the car and the write up

 

[Tru_Shine]

Nice job. Why did you choose 1500 on the roof scratch? (I am not attacking your approach, but did you hit it with 1500 first or was the lighter stuff not getting it?)



Man 22, and house/cars like that? If that was in the Farragut or Maryville area, I know that home wasn't cheap. Props to that guy.

well, It's kind of hard to see the real bad scratches at certain angles, but there were 2 DEEP srcatches and the whole rood was really bad, 3000 wouldn't have done the job for sure. So then I just used my 1500, why play any games, just get in there and remove it, and even at 1500 grit in one of my pics you can still see a couple of the deeper ones were left, I could only remove so much clear coat. thanks.

Nice work, please don't take this comment the wrong way but when I first saw one of the morning pics, the sky and clouds reflected so much that I thought you may have missed maybe wiping some LSP off or something. I was like no, no way he did that, then I noticed what I was looking at LOL.



Awesome job again!

lol, sometimes I worrie about posting pics like that, but its all good, thanks.

Nice work man . I'm liking that Solstice!

yeah that paint was like a bass boat! super metallicy! thanks

nice job on the car and the write up

thanks dude.

 

[Tru_Shine]

Nice job. Why did you choose 1500 on the roof scratch? (I am not attacking your approach, but did you hit it with 1500 first or was the lighter stuff not getting it?)



Man 22, and house/cars like that? If that was in the Farragut or Maryville area, I know that home wasn't cheap. Props to that guy.

Wait a sec, I just realized you were a fellow Tennesseeain? were are you located at and do you do much work around here?

 

[swan]

Outstanding results! Its great to see a good write up with an explanation of what and why you used what you did. I always click on your threads in here.:2thumbs:

 

[imported_JoshVette]

Nice job, you did a lot of work and it turned out great.



Josh

 

[MrCLRider]

I thought those trees looked famaliar!! I lived in Sevierville for 3 years lol.



You do some really nice work man, good job!

 

[MarcHarris]

Great work Eric! GPW is a very historical color for the Honda family and its nice to see this NSX brought back to the original condition from the factory in Japan.

Hopefully a tall guy like you didn't have too many problems working on such a low car

 

[gav'spurplez]

we need a picture with the other wheels, the car will look completely different !!!