1990 L98 Supercharged C4 Corvette track car - heavy correction

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This one came to me after the city was responsible for getting a bunch of black road paint all over it. When they finally paid up, the owner brought it in for some major correction work. Its a serious car too. Full bolt ons + supercharger running some pretty good boost (sounded amazing). The guy races the car frequently at the track too (road racing I believe). I was grinning like a kid each time I moved it around. Just hearing the supercharger respond to the slightest throttle response constantly put a smile on my face!!

There is right around 24 hours into this Corvette. The hood and rear bumper were repainted a few years ago, also when the chameleon Grand Sport stripes were painted and cleared over. The car has 103k miles on it and is HEAVILY tracked, which is why it has the tow hitch and mud flaps. He trailers his race tires to the track and the flaps keep rocks from destroying the lower half of the paint from rocks flung from the race tires. It wasn't set out to be a 100% job, but I was very happy to get somewhere around 90-95% correction out of it. Anyway, enjoy the pics!




Process:

Exterior
-Foamed with Dawn
-Rinsed and Dawn wash
-Megs APC 4:1 on wheels/tires
-Swissvax Wheel brush
-Megs Aggressive clay and Megs LT as lube
-Tires with Zaino Z16



Interior

-Vacuumed
-Leather with Megs APC 10:1
-Zaino Z10 conditioner
-Stoner's Invisible Glass on windows
-vents and console cleaned with various brushes/qtips



Correction

-Megs 105 on PFW LC 6.5 - rotary
-Menzerna SIP on LC orange 5.5 - rotary
-Menzerna 106FA on LC white 5.5 - PC



LSP

-Zaino Z5pro
-Zaino Z6







Starting with this...

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The rear bumper was one of the repainted parts and had excessive orange peel and very soft paint. The overspray was soo heavy it required aggressive clay. The scary thing about this overspray is that it was STILL resistant to the clay!! The only option was to put some pressure behind it, which is typically a no-no. This is an example why you don't put pressure behind the clay. No worries though as the first stage took it out without any problem at all :)


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More swirly badness


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Some before/after and 50/50 shots.


Remember this one?
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After 3 stages
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Check out the gloss!!

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After a bath and some Zaino

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One of my favorites here

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More stripes

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And some outside pics

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I just couldn't get enough of these stripes!!!

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Thanks for looking!!
 
That paint looks amazing! :drool:

Top notch work right here. :props:
 
That was one of the most swirled up messes I've seen on here and you took it to an almost liquefied looking state. Amazing!
 
WOW, that was beat up. Great work, I would have charged a pretty penny to bring that car back to that condition.
 
Had they been cleaning that thing with a brillo pad or something?

Looks great
 
That was one of the most swirled up messes I've seen on here and you took it to an almost liquefied looking state. Amazing!



:iagree: That was one swirled up mess!!! Great shots of the stripes, the gloss was amazing!!!:props:
 
I have to say, it's nice to see a Corvette that really gets driven and isn't babied at all.

And that was an amazing turn around on the finish. Wouldn't have thought that such a save was possible. Well worth putting an entire day into it.
 
Wow, nice job, Jeff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :righton:

Finally, you listed the process, too!!!!!!!!!!!! :props: :props:

What RPM did you with the PFW and M105?
 
Wow, nice job, Jeff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :righton:

Finally, you listed the process, too!!!!!!!!!!!! :props: :props:

What RPM did you with the PFW and M105?

Thanks. I don't mind sharing the process on most cars. There are a few I will keep to myself though.

RPM was 1200-1300
 
The car turned out great!!! nice work! How did the customer feel when he saw his car again?
 
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