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Had a great opportunity to work on some classic muscle this weekend; you can keep your fancy euro cars!!! First up is a beautiful 1968 Buick "Special." The engine was in need of a thorough clean up since the owner had wet sanded the car. So I put a garbage bag around the air filter, wrapped the alternator up with aluminum foil, then generously appled some 5:1 CG grime reaper followd by a few blast from the foam cannon. I worked the degreasing agents into the cracks and crevaces, around the valve covers and exhaust headers, between all the hose lines, etc with a variety of sized brushes. The sun was to my back, so i constantly spurted another blast of foam at it to keep things liquified. Once finished. I blasted it all down with the full force of the power washer. Next step is very important: GET IT DRY! I used an air gun to blow out all the little nooks and crannys atop the air intake and engine block. Then went back with a towel and dried everything else. Finally I cranked her over so that the big fan and heat of the engine would evaporate the rest. Afterward, I coated it all with CD2 and polished the air lid and other metal with Mothers Aluminum polish.
Wrap the Intake and alternator (i used a piece of tape to anchor the bag in place):
Foam cannon + degreaser
All shined up, with CD2 and Mothers Metal polish.
Next up was Black Sunshine an 86 Buick Grand National, GM's red-headed step child of the muscle car world. This sucker is NOT stock and flys down the quarter mile @ mid 10s! (Corvette ZR1 wha?) The single stage paint is stock and needed some freshing up. The pinstriping was all done aout 8 years ago, in memory of the owner's mother who had passed away. I was not going anywhere near them with my Flex. So across the wide open areas I used a tangerine hydrotech pad and M105. Over the pin stripes, I used a white LC hand pad with M105. I topped it off with some Dodo Juice Purple Haze to keep it looking dark and wet. Sorry, no tire gel on this street beast! (to think, i even dared to try and rid the rear fender wells from decades of burnouts! LOL)
Wrap the Intake and alternator (i used a piece of tape to anchor the bag in place):
Foam cannon + degreaser
All shined up, with CD2 and Mothers Metal polish.
Next up was Black Sunshine an 86 Buick Grand National, GM's red-headed step child of the muscle car world. This sucker is NOT stock and flys down the quarter mile @ mid 10s! (Corvette ZR1 wha?) The single stage paint is stock and needed some freshing up. The pinstriping was all done aout 8 years ago, in memory of the owner's mother who had passed away. I was not going anywhere near them with my Flex. So across the wide open areas I used a tangerine hydrotech pad and M105. Over the pin stripes, I used a white LC hand pad with M105. I topped it off with some Dodo Juice Purple Haze to keep it looking dark and wet. Sorry, no tire gel on this street beast! (to think, i even dared to try and rid the rear fender wells from decades of burnouts! LOL)
