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lenny
04-29-2007, 01:55 AM
Products Used (exterior only):
Purple Power Degreaser (5:1 solvent mixed 5 water 1 Purlple)
P21s Wheel Cleaner
Meguiars Gold Shampoo & Conditioner
Ceneille Microfiber Wash mit
Absorber Drying Towel
Meguairs Clay bar (non-abrasive)
Meguairs Instant Detailer (I believe it's called showtime shine or some bullshit)
5 gallon bucket
Autogeek.net Grit gard (You should have bought one like,basically....yesterday, awesome product)
Microfiber cloths, lots of different ones ( i used roughly 30 in all to prevent cross product contamination)
Eagle one Wet Tire Shine (damnit, it's a dressing and it's what I have available)
Mothers Back to Black Trim/bumper Restore (use it with your finger or with a small fine too nylon brush)
Pinnacle XMT 1
Pinnacle XMT 3
Pinnacle XMT Glaze (smells like grapes and I love it to death)
Pinnacle Pad conditioner and Pinnacle pad cleaner
P21s Wax (awesome shit if you don't have it you should buy, now!...immediately, works almost as good as the 70 dollar pinnacle sov. and goes on and off like a lightswitch, or you can pay me to do it for you)
3m Machine Polish
3m Swirl Mark Remover (for dark colored vehicles)
Stoner Invisible Glass (if you use something else you're not being an intelligent consumer)
Mother's Aluminum polish
Random brushes ( i advise all of you to buy every non-marring detail brush you can get your hands on)
Porter Cable 7424 with 5.5 hook/loop Xtreme backing plate
Lake Country CCS pads 6 inch (used yellow briefly (cuts too hard), orange, white, black and blue. Also Lake Country lambs wool leveling pad and Lake country microfiber 6 inch mits for 7424
As always, hopes, dreams, and coors light during the final stages (I'm sure I forgot half of the shit I used)

1993 Ford Probe GT
J-Spec KLZE 2.5L V6 swap
Hotshot Headers
Hotshot Intake
Apexi Dunk Header back exhaust w/ cat delete
Fidanza Flywheel 9 lb Flywheel
Clutchmasters stage III clutch
RR-Racing Motor/tranny mounts
KYB Struts
Eibach Springs (I think?)
Some kind of light weight racing wheels (why list any non-go fast shit? it has a lot of other mods (way too many to list) that have nothing to do with getting tickets/thrown in jail)

Here's some pics..
Before...
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00004.JPG
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00002.JPG
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00003.JPG

Here's what we used on wheels today (ignore the stoner invisible glass)
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00008.JPG

Lettin the wheel soak before the wipe down/rinse
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00007.JPG

After the wash... After the rim cleaning/prepping/waxing, and after the dressings
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00009.JPG
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00013-med.JPG
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00012-med.JPG
Here's the dirty (before) pic just for reference
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00001.JPG
So then I pulled her in (pgt) so that she could be clayed and polished/glazed/waxed
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00014-med.JPG
She looks kinda ehhh here. Lots of neglected paint over the years (spiderwebs, micromarring and hairline scrathing from improper washing/drying technique) and from not being driven (damint keith put some miles on her)
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00018-med.JPG
Stage I clay and diagnosis
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00016-med.JPG
Stage II Hit the bitch with everything you deem necessary
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00020-med.JPG
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00019-med.JPG
Results...
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00022-med.JPG
Unfortunately I don't have any pre-buff pics that turned out...this car was assembled in 1992 (1993 model year) See any swirls? I got rid of them.
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00025-med.JPG
This picture is just for Jonny ( do you use an H or not?)
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00024.JPG
Some randoms of the sexiness...
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00029-med.JPG
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00028-med.JPG
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00027-med.JPG
Holy,....I think they're waiting for a bus or something?
http://www.audizine.com/gallery/data/500/738DSC00026-med.JPG

That's about it for now...If you're around Cedar Rapids let me know if I can earn your business.

SaNdMaNsSi
04-29-2007, 04:39 AM
You can do my car. Its been in a garage for over a year and probably has a nice thick layer of crap on it.

Drifte
04-29-2007, 10:41 AM
i just did similar work to my car yesterday. Then...i parked near a fire for tunes and it got ashed on...

DustinsDuster
04-29-2007, 06:17 PM
looks pretty good dan, if i ever have a car i really need to worry about the paint on, i'll have to give you a call