Presidential Detailed: 2001 Honda S2000 TURBO!!

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PresdntialDtail

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This is the former S&R Racing car here in Tampa, a friend of mine picked the car up about a month or two ago and gave me a call to get it cleaned up for a show coming up. I must say, Ive seen the car before and was a little nervous with all the fiberglass molding and unsure condition of the paint. The entire front end is all aftermarket and I wasnt sure how the paint was going to hold up either, since it had cracked in a couple spots due to the flexing of the kit. Basically I told Rob, that I could make the car look a whole lot better, but was a little nervous to go for a full correction and he agreed. I ended up going at it with SIP/Orange and following with PO85rd/black and got very good results, actually night and day but the deeper swirling and some deeper scratched remained. Well on to the pics..



Exterior:

Dawn Soap Pre-Wash

Optimum Car Wash-Final Wash

COBRA UMF Wash Mitt

COBRA Deluxe "Jr" MF's

Dual Buckets with Grit Guards

3m Masking Tape

Adams Professional Clay Bar

P21S TAW

Meguairs APC+

Meguairs Hyperdressing

Menzerna SIP/Orange

Menzerna PO85rd/Black

Menzerna Top Inspection

Tons of Uber MF Towels(AP)

Black WOW

Griots Garage Wheel Cleaner Gel

Swissvax Pneu





LSP:

Lusso Oro applied with Uber Foam Applicator



Tools:

Dual Work Lamps

Dewalt Hi Speed Rotary

World's Greatest Boar's Hair Wheel Brush

Foam Pad Cleaning Brush

DD Detail Sponge

The Wheel Well/Fender Brush

The Spoke Brush

Canon Rebel XTi

Craftsmen 295MPH Vac/Blow

E-Z Detail Wheel Brush

Swissvax Wheel Brush



BEFORE:

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Some pretty serious water etching..

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There was quite a bit of hologramming from a previous detailer..

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We took the wheels off to clean up the undercarriage..

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Wheel After..

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Then we worked on the undercarriage..

BEFORE:

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AFTER:

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Rob being the helper he is, tightening the lugs..

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Taping off the edges to polish the inner rim of the vent..

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A couple more before/afters..

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And the rest of the afters in the halogens..there wasnt much sun where I was working..not to mention the tent I had to use because there was no garage accessible.

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Couple of the sun shots I managed to get..

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Now finally finished..

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And finally my favorite..I love to see the cars bead up after I finish them! :D

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One on the way to the show that my GF took, I just cropped it. ;)

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Ahh, do I love that Car...I was just telling myself, I want a turbo'd s2000! That super hard to find, or super expensive! I'll find one though! Great work on the car...looks really good!
 
alowe said:
Looks amazing, what size and model is that canopy? Shopping around.
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Thanks! Its a 10x10 from Wal-Mart. I found it on sale for like $70 but they usually go for almost $100. One tip, the same day I went to a different walmart and it wasnt on sale, so search around.
 
PresdntialDtail said:
Thanks! Its a 10x10 from Wal-Mart. I found it on sale for like $70 but they usually go for almost $100. One tip, the same day I went to a different walmart and it wasnt on sale, so search around.
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Thanks boss!
 
PresdntialDtail said:
Thanks! Its a 10x10 from Wal-Mart. I found it on sale for like $70 but they usually go for almost $100. One tip, the same day I went to a different walmart and it wasnt on sale, so search around.
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Great turnaround!



I have to admit that I got bored one day and was broke so I went to one walmart and found an above the ground pool for $138 on sale regular price of $499 and I returned it to the other walmart for full price just so I could get the wally world gift card for groceries. I guess I said all that to say that some walmarts have items on sale and others dont.
 
Labster said:
Great turnaround!



I have to admit that I got bored one day and was broke so I went to one walmart and found an above the ground pool for $138 on sale regular price of $499 and I returned it to the other walmart for full price just so I could get the wally world gift card for groceries. I guess I said all that to say that some walmarts have items on sale and others dont.
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Dang! Your smart, Ill have to try that sometime..:hifive:
 
great job! I am going to have to go to walmart and grab myself a canopy also as my garage is tiny. I just order myself a makita also and some 85rd and looking forward to the results on my vette.
 
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