2013 Challenger round #2

richy

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I am a huge fan of this car! It looks amazing and its colour is very understated if you ask me. The performance mods also make it sound incredible. Anyway, I first had the pleasure of coating this car 2 years ago in this thread here:

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/show-n-shine/68425-2013-challenger-car-show.html

The coating was still there, but it had some light scratches and some chips and it was time to get her done again. Like last time, this was going to be a wheels-off job and again, with CQF, and the new version as well. I actually modified how I applied it after talking with Corey and was DELIGHTED at the results!! Here it is as it arrived:

















First up was to wash the wheels. I wanted to do as good a job as possible so I didn't have to re-do the barrels once I had them off. The barrels were cleaned with my Wheel Woolie brush and Megs HW soap. The faces were cleaned with a mitt and the same soap. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505. The wells with LATA.

The car was then washed with Megs HW soap. A second decontamination wash of IronX paste was done. Lastly it was brought inside and clayed with a CarPro prep towel.

First step was removing the wheels. The barrels were wiped down with ONR. They were then polished with my Megs DA and a 4" yellow B/S pad with HD Adapt. It was then chemically cleaned with DG Squeaky Clean and then double coated with V5 of Finest (last bottle-bummer). Here is a barrel after being coated:





The face was done the same way although the shot turned out blurry so I deleted it. After reinstalling the wheels, they were torqued to spec (110 ft/lbs using my torque wrench). The wells were treated to DG beta trim coating:








I tried the HD adapt again for most of the car. I used a Megs mf cutting disc and my Rupes 21. That did a great job of cleaning up the paint and giving it a nice glow. In the case of the scratches however, it lacked the bite to remove them with that pad. I switched to my TB black wool + M205 for them and it did the trick. That was followed by DG Squeaky Clean to chemically clean the paint and also to check the veracity of the correction. I had finished polishing the car in the mid afternoon and knew I wouldn't be done till the night coating it, so I took some outside shots of the car with no coating whatsoever, just bare, corrected paint. Here are those shots:








Gotta love the flake in this paint!





Here's the wheel all done but without tire dressing yet:

















Got flake??














The car was then brought inside and given an Eraser wipe down just to ensure no dust from the outside had settled on the paint. I had been having an issue with the carrier flashing rate of the new V6 version of CQF and after talking with Corey, decided to try what was so successful for me with V5: fast flashing it with compressed air. Boy, oh, boy did that work like a champ! Never, ever hurts to think outside the box!! The car was given a double coat of CQF. The glass (all of it) was double coated with Fly-by-30. The tires were shot via air gun with Opti Bond at 100%. The trim was coated with DLux. Unfortunately they're only inside shots (it was 10 pm) but here it is all finished:






































Thanks for looking. Comments always appreciated.
 
rich, looking good as always! those wheels matchlook good on the car (American muscle) and in too many cases I see people match the wrong kind of wheels with the car which is like wearing the wrong shoes with an outfit. a while back I saw a black challenger with tinted windows and rims like this that were powder coated black to match the paint and it was dropped (just a little and not too much) and it looked awesome...
 
rich, looking good as always! those wheels matchlook good on the car (American muscle) and in too many cases I see people match the wrong kind of wheels with the car which is like wearing the wrong shoes with an outfit. a while back I saw a black challenger with tinted windows and rims like this that were powder coated black to match the paint and it was dropped (just a little and not too much) and it looked awesome...

Thanks! He's not a big fan of the wheels, and he, like me, agree that it would look KILLER with chrome wheels!! By the way, speaking of powder coated wheels, while I was doing this car, I made a booking for another CQF job for the first Hellcat in Canada! It has black matte wheels that look powder coated. I'm extremely excited to do that car in June!!
 
By the way, speaking of powder coated wheels, while I was doing this car, I made a booking for another CQF job for the first Hellcat in Canada! It has black matte wheels that look powder coated. I'm extremely excited to do that car in June!!

look forward to the write-up if you end up posting one! :dblthumb2:
 
Beautiful work mate! Really nice! :props: In some of those photos it almost looks like its chrome.

Thats a great looking car. :xyxthumbs: I personally like the rims. We still don't have many of these down here in New Zealand, so not a common sight but for a modern car - they do it for me!

Thanks for sharing.

Aaryn NZ. :xyxthumbs:
 
Rich,

Great work, Stand up as usual. But every time you post I can't help but admire your

house. I have to say I really like you house:dblthumb2::dblthumb2:...and you work
 
Question thus becomes...were you correcting the previously applied coating...or were you removing paint? The #1 selling point of a coating is that it protects the paint from possible future correction (the coating being the sacrificial barrier)? If paint was being removed (again) after once having been coated...it begs the obvious question regarding the coatings ability to truly protect the underlying paint. Its too bad the car didn't have a tinted clear coat on it. The color of the spent buffing pads would answer the question.
 
Beautiful work mate! Really nice! :props: In some of those photos it almost looks like its chrome.

Thats a great looking car. :xyxthumbs: I personally like the rims. We still don't have many of these down here in New Zealand, so not a common sight but for a modern car - they do it for me!

Thanks for sharing.

Aaryn NZ. :xyxthumbs:

Aaryn, thanks so much for commenting.

Rich,

Great work, Stand up as usual. But every time you post I can't help but admire your

house. I have to say I really like you house:dblthumb2::dblthumb2:...and you work
Thank you so much. I think putting the metal roof on has helped the appearance too; I quite like it.

Question thus becomes...were you correcting the previously applied coating...or were you removing paint? The #1 selling point of a coating is that it protects the paint from possible future correction (the coating being the sacrificial barrier)? If paint was being removed (again) after once having been coated...it begs the obvious question regarding the coatings ability to truly protect the underlying paint. Its too bad the car didn't have a tinted clear coat on it. The color of the spent buffing pads would answer the question.

I would say removing coating due to 1) the mild combo and 2) it wouldn't remove the defects. I can DEFINITELY say that the coating is a sacrificial layer. What better example than when someone keyed this car a year ago:

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/show-n-shine/79283-attacking-dragon.html

NO, there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that CQF adds a sacrificial layer to the paint.

Great job Richy!!!
Thank you so much Roshan!

Great work Richy. That hood is so sexy !!!
Pat, thanks kindly and thank you for commenting.
 
Outstanding work as always Richy. Cool tip with using air to help with the flashing too. On a side note, have you been able to enjoy a good cigar lately?
 
Looking good Richy!:dblthumb2:

It's those long projects that make me want to do jobs like that. Kudos brother!!!:props:

Gotta' love being able to spend quality time with a torque wrench. :D

(I print out a big, bold, red and black page with a warning after wheels have been removed. State the factory spec, and that they be re-torqued after no more than 100~150 miles. Even have them sign a release nine ways from Sunday acknowledging the facts/risks/responsibility.)

I have a guy with a black Hellcat that is going to bring it once we get out of monsoon season around here, (and I can get around/over back surgeries). Tried to talk him into the darker version of that gray metallic, he wasn't having it. (He already has a 14 Viper in black/gold so he figures they're twins.)
 
Beautiful work, as always, Richy. I agree with you about the color. Did this one happen to have the Titanium leather interior, too? Thanks for sharing with us. :dblthumb2:
 
Outstanding work as always Richy. Cool tip with using air to help with the flashing too. On a side note, have you been able to enjoy a good cigar lately?

Thanks so very much, and...oh, yeah, I sure have!! At least 2 with the last 4 cars. Thankfully my health is back up so I can abuse myself again, LOL.

Looking good Richy!:dblthumb2:

It's those long projects that make me want to do jobs like that. Kudos brother!!!:props:

Gotta' love being able to spend quality time with a torque wrench. :D

(I print out a big, bold, red and black page with a warning after wheels have been removed. State the factory spec, and that they be re-torqued after no more than 100~150 miles. Even have them sign a release nine ways from Sunday acknowledging the facts/risks/responsibility.)

I have a guy with a black Hellcat that is going to bring it once we get out of monsoon season around here, (and I can get around/over back surgeries). Tried to talk him into the darker version of that gray metallic, he wasn't having it. (He already has a 14 Viper in black/gold so he figures they're twins.)

I'm glad you're trying to get back at it. If Mike can do this with an artificial leg, and me, far less severe than him with my artificial knee, it comes down to ignoring the pain and allowing yourself to do something you enjoy. I look forward to seeing your pics of the black Hellcat for sure!!!

Beautiful work, as always, Richy. I agree with you about the color. Did this one happen to have the Titanium leather interior, too? Thanks for sharing with us. :dblthumb2:
Thanks so much! This car has got a black interior.

Very nice sir! You really need to try Gyeon MOHs!
Thanks a bunch Mike! (How are you enjoying yours? I remember you talking to the owner on L2D about his exhaust. Did you end up changing yours?)

As far as leaving the CQuartz family, that is extremely unlikely for me. I've used their products from as far back as AQuartz. Avi never rests on his laurels and even now he's developing a formula that will cure better in colder temps. High temps are no problem. It just seemed to be an issue in Fall/Winter.
 
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