Ferrari F355 berlinetta, 1997 model Washing and preparation: Scholl Crack 9000 SV Car bath Maxi suds MG APC Wookie Fist mitt SV Detail brush ONR P21S SV yellowclay EZ brushes SS dryers Espuma dryers Equipment and compounds: Makita and flex rotary Makita DA Scholl S03Gold Scholl S30 Scholl S40 Scholl Orange pad 3M Blue pad CFP SV autobahn SV Shield SV Scuderia SV Trim Restorer matt SV Motor Shine SV Leather cleaner and milk Scholl Purple 9000 Nanolotus Pneu Matt SV Crystal Time spent: About 50 hrs _______________________________________________________________________________ This F355 has Caprista sport exhaust and the sound of it is just faaaaaantastic. "Unfortunately" I had to transport the car to the garage that is about 30 minutes from where I picked it up The experience of driving in the left lane and observing 50% of fellow drivers taking down their windows while I drove by made me a little shamefull, but at the same time put a big grin on my face Start it up and get it out: YouTube - Ferrari F355 1 The car was just a little bit dirty upon arrival: Mixing some SV washing water: Wheels was sprayed down with P21 and the paint with Scholl Crack 9000: A little bit dirt coming of: Some foam photos: I had P21 on the rims for almost 10 minutes, which seemed to do some wonders: Wookie fist hand wash: EZ brush: Jewellery Cleaning (The struts for the engine compartement was a little bit lazy, so I used the padbrush for some extra support!) Used a fairly strong mix of CG Grime reaper degreaser and left it for a couple of minutes prior to: Maxi Suds II foaming: Seemed to do the trick: SV wheel brush on difficult places: Rince off: Ready for some soundFX again?!? Engine started up and left it idle at about 2000rpm + a couple of 5-6'rpm's to(could not help my self) Left it on for about 5 minutes so that most of the water evaporated. Finished off with compressed air: YouTube - Ferrari Motorvask.mp4 Then it was clayed with SV yellow clay and dryed with SS and Espuma dryers: Paint measurementes was also conducted on the entire car: The values told me mostly that parts of the car has been re-painted. Thickness was everything from very thick to normal: Then some paint inspection. This colour was a pain in the a#% to get quality before pics of(no sun outside this day): Time for a real engine shine - Swissvax way: This is what it looked like after a good wash and all dryed up: Properly masked up first: This is what I was going to use: Flexible applicator bought from a paint dealership did the trick with protection matte: One quick round with Megs Ultimate compound on a applicator on some engine details: it helped: SV trim restorer matte should be allowed to "stand" for about 20-30 minutes, then you'll see that the surface becomes black again. What the plastic does not "suck" up is easlily wiped off with a microfiber: At this time I was a little bit tired of the engine lid wanting to come down, so it was just as well removed: These clamps was sauced in with a variation of adhesives, so they could not be skipped in the detail: 3M adhesive and wax remover on a microfiber: Followed by one layer of CG metal polish : Well, fairly satisfied: Appropriate protection gear is very important: After the application and 15 minutes on the clock, this is how it turned out: Very satified with this look: Had no plans to get any polish residue in the newly detailed engine, so the entire engine room was thoroughly masked up: One defect bulb obv.. Something to fix for day two: Bernie gave me a hand for a few hours on Saturday on the wheels and interior.. Espuma degreasing: Vikan brush: Megs wheel brush on tires: Shame on those who balanced the wheels last time.. This have to come of: Used a handy stiff little plastic "knife" to get everything of: Some spots was really hard to get of, but 3M wax and glue remover did the trick: gone: Wheels dried and ready for some Cleaner Fluid Regular: Waxed, dried and as good as new: Amazing Roll-off sprayed in the arches and calipers: Vikan brush again: Dirty debris: Some old label stickers had to be removed: gone: SV Cleaner Fluid and SV Autobahn was applied: CG Bare Bones in the arches for a nice black finish: The holes for the lug nuts also needed some lubrication: The lug nuts was left int a bath of some leftovers of some Megs hot rims degreaser: Dired off and a whole lot better after one layer of Cleaner Fluid: Autobahn wax: then manually replaced wearing gloves to avoid grease stains on the freshly waxed lug nuts: SV leather cleaner and milk round one: Bernhard cleaned the old mats(owner had bought new ones, but the old ones may be used as winter mats now...lol): Felt like giving Nanolotus leather and upholstry protection a try: Used a brand new brush: Used a lot. When Bernie asked me how much I had spent, I just held the bottle up in the light, and we both began to chuckle: The instructions say that the mats should be allowed to dry for up to 24 hrs for best repellent effect. The mats was given the recomended dry-time and then it was time for som water testing. The water will darken some areas such as where the "beam" hits.. Excess water was easily brushed of afterwards: This is really thick mats with open fibers, so this is pretty sick: The Nano effect: YouTube - Nanolotus effect Was fed up long time ago on this day.. Was all alone again and the back was really killing me after 12-14 hrs of "hard" work. Needed to do something else, so started by applying an extra layer of leather milk: Then some SV Seal Feed: I was sitting on the stool looking at the tires, and something was not right in my eyes.. It's all in the details, so these "new tire" things had to come off: The light in the trunk was black and I took it out to check if I could find a matching one: The owner of the car had been so unfortunate to get a little vandalism on the car prior to det detail. Someone had ripped off one of the wiskers so the entire "arm" had to be replaced. The Ferrari dealership wanted a little over £2000 for it, so i could a guy to machine and paint on for £100 instead. Here I'm trying to mount the fixed new one: hmmmmm, trying to compare with the other one, but not the same fittings unfortunately: The last thing I did was to do a clean up the pedals and the plate next to them: Thereugo: Another day, and new small details: These ones was broken, but the owner had bought in some new ones that I found in the center console: Getting rid off the old nails: Vacuuming the debris: The right nail size was found after a couple of tries: New hatches locked in place : Exhaust polish: Scholl S0, SV wheel kit, mother polish ball, Autosol, SV CF regular and Autobahn does the trick: The rear diffuser looked a little bit dull, but after one round of Black wow they were brand new again: Dent puller Found a really ugly dent on the real fender: Used this cheapo puller that did the trick: After a couple of rounds it looked something like this. The schratches was removed later on: The engine cover was on a mattress on the floor, so why not do it there: Scholl S03 Gold on an orange small pad worked really well on this paint: Did a couple of test wipes with IPA to check for Holo's, but no one was found: Over to decals. Mixed a little bit of Cleaner fluid with some mechanical paint repair and worked round the decals with a Q-tip: Topping off with SV Metal polish: Jeweled the panel with Scholl S40 on a blue 3M pad, followed by CFP and SV Scuderia: Not bad: Correction work on the rest of the paint. All paint was polished with orange scholl pad and S03 gold, orange pad/S30, CFP and finally SV Scuderia. There was little to no difference on the panels jeweled with S40 or CFP so skipped the S40 step.. Here you can see some sanding spots where I've filled some touch-up paint and sanded the blobs: An extra spacer to get in to all of the tight areas: A poor 50/50 attempt. This colour was really hard getting any good 50/50 on: The small flex really came in handy because of its size: S30 finishing: one pass 900rpm->1500rpm(2-3+) and then a couple of passes on low speed: Arve and Lars gave me a hand getting the engine cover back: Two careful boys: Had to du a fine tune/adjust to get the lid to line up perfectly: Then some more polishing: Lars gave me a hand on a small detail here: Measurement and adaption: Careful heated up and the foil was stuck and in perfect place: The sun was shining into the room and some sick reflections was observed on this side. (after CFP): No orange peel here: Bernhard also stopped by at the end and put some finishing touch ont the grille.. SV Opaque(treated with Opaque cleaner first): When the wax was buffed off, I did an extra round of buffing with this cloth to get rid of the the immediate SV carnauba sweating: Almost ready for delivery.. Note! It's the owner who's controlling the rpm's: Some finished photos.. Hope you like them: Thanks for watching
wow! your attention to detail is mesmerizing this thread deserves to be sticky'd lol @ removing the tyre beads, i do that straight away too also, the car has definitely had paint - oem finish behind the front grille should be matt black
very nice detail for what u did there it will be between 3000-5000$ detail in my books with "pictures time" included in the price )))) i like all u did over there , except the foam and pressure washer on the engine....is just my opinion. :gidiup:
I have been reading forums for about a year now on how to detail and examples from professionals and amateurs. By FAR, this is the MOST intense detail I have ever witnessed. Amazing it only took 50 man-hours to complete, or is that 50 hours total with a few guys working on it? What did you use for the spot fixes on paint? The color matching - Dr. Colorchip or something else?. Incredible job.
Thank you Thanks, nice to hear Nice comment. I try do to always to a little extra on the details. I'd been planning this job for a couple of weeks and since this is not my profession I can afford spending the extra hrs before and also after on the write-ups Thank you very much.. Guess removing the tyre beads is a little bit :crasy::crasy:, but I thought it made an extra little touch to it.. The owner is going to get the front(behind) grill paintet, so it's already in progress Thats, also the price range that the owner sayd it should be worth About the pressure washer on the engine, I could say that the one I used here is not very high in bars, so it should be fairly safe.. Thank you for the very nice comments.. There will probably ble some more "supercars" during the summers for my part I worked a little over 40 hrs on the car and got an helping hand in the rest. Write-up and picture time is not included in that total. I did not use dr.colorchip.. I removed the fuel lid of the car and got it scanned at a DuPont paint shop. They filled a spray can with the right code. The can was mixed as a single stage paint with hardener/activator already added. I applied the paint spraying it in a can and then manually filled the spots. The spots was first sanded(where there was corrotion), degreased, tacked and primed. The reason why I did it this way was to get an even distribution of the metallic flakes.. Thanks
That actually topped the 911 you did a while back. You are legendary! I just went in the garage and threw all my shit in the garbage. Awesome! Thanks for sharing your work with us. Joe D.
What a beautiful piece of machinery! Curious, do you get your touchup paint from Automotivetouchup.com?
Thank you very much for all the nice comments Much appreciated. Did not use that I'm afraid.. This is my answer from the first page:
looks sick, great work as usual. there was no way to safely remove ferrari emblem on engine cover? did that on 308 and it came off fine and went back on fine as well, got to polish area under emblem, just a thought
