today me and Nick started detailing 1994 Ferrari 348 spider i washed wheels with p21 wheel gel, washed wheel wells with degreaser. need to clean wheels again to get rid of old double sided tape from weights. we washed with with CG citrus wash, dried it, masked off what needed to be masked off, i took off rear Ferrari emblem and rear grill (was 6 screws and 2 nuts in total) it will make it easier to polish. masking took only like 20 min and was cake compared to Jag that we did.
Nice job on the Spider, it looks great! So true about using a paint meter when buying used cars. Have seen many dealers surprised when I pull one out and checked cars when i was looking at cars.
Nice work on this puppy! And yes, get the PTG and ask for 30 minutes where it's just you and car where you can check it out!!!
you gotta get an external flash or a smaller lens haha car looks great! the 5050 shots are superb as well
have both. just dont know which to use. you think 100mm macro would do? i do have external flash which will try to use next time, just never used one so will be fun trying to use it. my dad has step up camera from mine ( ihave pentax k20 and he got K-7) got this PentaxWebstore smcP FA 31mm f/1.8 Limited (Black) PentaxWebstore smcP D-FA 100mm f/2.8 Macro PentaxWebstore smcP DA 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 Fisheye took pics with this PentaxWebstore smcP DA 16-50mm f/2.8 ED AL (IF) SDM this flash that i have PentaxWebstore AF 360FGZ Flash w/Case need to get rotary. takes forever with PC
Yeah, a rotary will definitely speed up the process once you get the hang of it. SpecC also has some good advice as well.
final pics posted Products used: Meguiars M105 Meguiars M205 Menzerna SIP IPA 30% Sonus green clay Ironx CG wheel cleaner CG citrus wash Autoglym HD wax Optibond(tire dressing) Poorboys bold and bright (tire dressing) 303 convertible top cleaner Poorboys natural look Sprayway window cleaner Process: Car was rinsed and sprayed with zep solution, rinsed couple minutes later and washed, then clayed, rinsed again, sprayed with ironx and rinsed again couple minutes later. Ironx removed metal that was under surface of that clay was not able to remove. Car was washed again and dried. Wheels were cleaned. After inspecting paint and seeing the damage that was there we got ok to do one step polish on it. Hood was buffed before what looks like with rotary and wool pad which left a lot of buffer trails. Test panel was done with menz SIP and it removed all defects. Tried same combo on paint and there was a lot of scratches left. Did pass with M105 and it removed 80% of scratches. After finishing pass with M205 surface looked very wet and paint got its depth back being metallic yellow color. Since it was only supposed to be one step, car received quick pass with M105 and PFW pad which removed about 80% of scratches. Some areas were polished to about 95% scratch free (trunk especially). Fenders were damaged more and did extra pass with M105 (car was partially repainted). After quick compounding car was polished with M205, wiped down with IPA and waxed with Autoglym HD wax. After removing wax car had very deep wet look to it and was very sleek to touch. Tires were dressed, windows cleaned and interior vacuumed and wiped down with PB natural look. Car looks a lot better then it did before. Onto the pics Before 50/50 after Finished pictures
Gorgeous work And i loved seein he put a K&N in his Ferrari it makes a huge difference on these cars We have an 85 308 GTS K&N is the best thing we've done to it
