2005 Porsche Turbo S (Full Blown recondition)

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HUMP DIESEL

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Hope you guys enjoy this as much as I enjoyed working on this beauty. I will not go into what this car is, you guys know. I will go into the fact that the owner is a Porsche mechanic and he bought this car from one of his customers.
Anyway, the PCA Carolinas Region meeting was this past Saturday evening, Feb 7, 2015. The owner asked if we could have the car ready to display at the meeting.
I said sure! I wanted to get it ready so I could display my company to potential clients. We agreed to have it ready either Friday or Saturday depending on when the owner could pick it up. I was shooting for Friday to give any additional time on Saturday for final prep. Another aspect was that when we got it in, the wheels came off. The owner had a new set he was putting on, so this would allow us easy access to the inner arches and calipers.

Items used:

Megs 105/205 combo
Megs cutting Disc
Rupes Yellow and White pads
Rupes 15 polisher
Swissvax Concorso Wax
3M Trizact 3000, 5000 and some spots with 1500 by hand



So here is what we started with:
Paint was in bad shape. The previous owner apparently took a brillo pad to the paint.



Hood:



Indicative of the swirls:



Top as well:



Wheel arch Before:



Wheel arch after:



After taking multiple paint thickness readings, the work begins:

Wetsanding of the full front clip as well as the roof, and spot sanding of trouble areas on the remainder of the car



Cutting stage after sanding. Note, we still have polishing to do:





This is overall after cutting, the next stages are refinement of the finish:























Engine Bay:





This one speaks for itself:



Outside prior to moving into showroom:

















I hope you enjoy, I have interiors as well that I will post later.

HUMP

Carolina Auto Image
 
What!? No Menzerna used on the German paint! Oh the horror! Lol

Beautiful work Bruce. She came out amazing. I'm sure the owner could not believe the transformation. Nicely done.
 
Mike@DedicatedPerfection said:
What!? No Menzerna used on the German paint! Oh the horror! Lol

Beautiful work Bruce. She came out amazing. I'm sure the owner could not believe the transformation. Nicely done.
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Mike, I did start out with FG400, but then switched to M105 and the cutting disc, and followed that with the M205, once with the yellow Rupes Pad and then again with the white. The clarity and depth I was getting, I just couldn't not use the combo.
I love Menz, you know, but I never discount Megs either.

HUMP
 
You certainly "HUMP"-a-fied it Bruce! ;)

Fantastic resurrection there indeed. :dblthumb2:
 
What a turnaround, excellent work!
 
Absolutely amazing. I'm sorry if you said, but how many hours were into this?
 
Trust me here guys, this car was absolutely thrashed, far beyond the pictures here. HUMP knocked this one out of the park in less than 40 hours. I would have called this one at 60+.
 
Very cool & professional...not every fighter jet gets this much attention to detail, inspection.
In the end you prepared this car to look better than it would be made by Porsche USA, No! - you made this car to look better than when it was new with 0 km on the speedometer.
 
Yes, I had a little over 30 hours into the car. I worked starting on a Sunday evening, then every evening after that, until Thursday and Friday, which were full days. Saturday was the final wipe down and inspection. We then met up at the event and made sure that the car was ready to show everyone.

HUMP
 
Not sure Ive seen any of your work before! WOW that turned out great.
 
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