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Wright Motor Sports is a Porsche tuning and racing company here in Cincinnati. They have a massive wearhouse on the east side of town where they do the work, then load up and travel around the US running courses. I serviced a client's Turbo 911 there some weeks back, and Wright asked me to perform some work on a 97' 993 Cup Car of theirs.
They asked me to simply "clean her up a bit so she looks good for the first run of the season-but don't do it as well as you did the other car" (a 10 hour gig). So I quoted them for a single-step polish and decided to put a little extra leg work into her too. Being a racer, the clear bra and anything facing forward was hammered with pitting and abrasions from debris. The rims were really in bad shape too, contaminated with brake dust, tar, paint, blood, everything! The interior...well, there was no interior, no engine either, as it was removed and getting rebuilt.
So I foamed her down and went to work on the rims. My typical grime reaper/soap/brush combo was getting laughed at by the baked-on contaminents. So I reached for a heavy grade clay bar and got the last laugh, using grime reaper as lube to help loosen up the stingy stuff. The outer lips are polished, so after claying them, I used S100 polishing soap to restore some luster and MAN did that brighten those up a lot.
The body recieved a full bath, clayed with a medium bar (which I honestly didn't pick up much debris-that was kind of a shock) then a final bath and pushed into the shop for polishing work. There was a LOT of wax build up in the vinyl and body lines which I used a Fermani-approved tooth brush to remove.
Like I said, the clear bra was HAMMERED. I phoned Barry Theal and he told me to use a heat gun to help cure it. Some pitting and major abrasions remained unfortunately but the swirls and gloss were restored completely. Heat-curing the vinyl took a long time, almost 40 minutes or so for the headlights and hood section. I held the gun about 2" off the material, working in slow oscilating motions, watching closely as the vinyl's gloss restored. In the phots you'll see differences between areas I worked on:
I wanted a quick solution for the polishing efforts. Immediately I reached for D301 and a green pad (the MF pad is too agressive for Porshe paint with a Flex and will leave micro marring). The result was a 40-50% reduction of swirls and a brilliant, glossy finish. The absolute best part about using this stuff is that it stays 'wet' for so long that I could roll over vinyl lettering and remove all of the compound from the crevices 20 minutes later with a MF and little effort.
301 breaks down to a wax, a very slick one too so I walked away after a total of 5 hours. The shop commented "She looks to good to be a race car!" :cool1::bigups
