Hello from LI NY

[Eighty5Iroc]

Hey how is everyone. New guy here from Long island. Ive been seriously detailing for 5 years now and just started to get into paint correction the past year. To make a long story short I left my very highly demanding job to finish my degree school hoping to go back with to better position as an engineer. So now I am working at an auto shop near me for the time being. Ive been getting allot of requests lately by customers to detail their cars. Many of them want to detail and then sell. So I will be stocking up on supply's and maybe making some cash on the side.


I drive a 1997 black civic Daily. Dropped 2.25 on coil-overs, Lower control arms, sway bars front/rear, lower,upper tie bars front/rear. 16x8.5 wheels I love how it handles.

Weekend car is a victory red 1985 camaro iroc Z single stage paint, swapped 350 10-1 compression, msd ignition, hooker comp headers, 2.5 inch true dual exhaust, discs all around, t5 trans, Posi rear 3.73 gears. Spent a long time getting her to look right. The previous owner kept her basically original besides everything she was missing and neglected the car badly.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Welcome to Autogeek Online! :welcome:

Ive been getting allot of requests lately by customers to detail their cars. Many of them want to detail and then sell.

Most the time these people also don't want a show car finish and don't want to pay for a show car finish, what they want is,

• Shiny paint
• Really black tires
• Clean looking and smelling interior
• Clean glass, no vinyl fog, smudges or fingerprints

You want to get a one-step cleaner/wax that you can apply with a DA Polisher, tire gel that makes tires black without making them look stupid gooey, vacuum like a surgeon, clean and dress interior and clean glass. And you want to do it as fast as you can.

Using a waterless wash or a rinseless and then claying horizontal surfaces would be a good way to start also unless the car is really dirty then it would be more effective to use a normal car wash, especially if your customer is the type of person that let the front wheels cake-up with brake-dust and road grim since the 1980's

Weekend car is a victory red 1985 Camaro iroc Z single stage paint, swapped 350 10-1 compression, msd ignition, hooker comp headers, 2.5 inch true dual exhaust, discs all around, t5 trans, Posi rear 3.73 gears. Spent a long time getting her to look right. The previous owner kept her basically original besides everything she was missing and neglected the car badly.

That sounds sweeet... how about a picture?

My Jimmy has 4-wheel disc brakes and 3/4 ton running gear and while she won't stop on a dime she will stop fast...

Put MSD on her too, kind of an overkill and I wouldn't recommend this high of an output to others... the spark is always looking for the shortest distance to spark too...

 

[Eighty5Iroc]

Well here it is. Car needs front end paint. Paint is also chipped on rocker panels. New hardwood hood 3'' lift some idiot decided to sit on and cracked the top corner.

Here a pic of the motor before it was ready. Wires aren't fit properly and the vac advance is hooked up wrong. Block needs to be prepped and painted. When the motor went in last month it was a test fit that wound up staying in for now.

 

[john F]

:welcome: !!

Where on Long Island are you from? I moved down here recently, but I was about 4 minutes away from the Roosevelt Field Mall (usually the best landmark to mention)

 

[Eighty5Iroc]

:welcome: !!

Where on Long Island are you from? I moved down here recently, but I was about 4 minutes away from the Roosevelt Field Mall (usually the best landmark to mention)

I'm about 15 min from Roosevelt field on the south shore towards massapequa

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Here a pic of the motor before it was ready. Wires aren't fit properly and the vac advance is hooked up wrong. Block needs to be prepped and painted. When the motor went in last month it was a test fit that wound up staying in for now.

Looks good, I need to get in inline fuel pressure gauge on my setup just to monitor what's going on and for troubleshooting.

I installed a Blue Top Holley Fuel Pump which is think a 110 GPH and a Holley Fuel Regulator but I'm just guessing at the adjustment for pressure.


I hear you on the test fitting... I test fit the big block 3 times in and out of my Jimmy, had to cut the frame in 4 places and then lift it motor about 1/4"+ to get the Hedman Headers to fit and even then it's still a snug fit...

Frame notched for header clearance...

Tight fit...

To adjust the valves I have to remove the brake booster...

LOL


She crawls along pretty good now...

 

[Eighty5Iroc]

Haha. Wow car really looks great. I always wanted one of those or a blazer. I might be picking up a 93 454SS pickup pretty soon. I wound up having to re route the brake lines on the Camaro because all 4 lines ran against the frame the headers were touching they rubbed the lines and would boil the fluid.

 

[JonM]

Welcome to the forum, I'm over in Woodbury. John, were you the guy who Matt (I believe it was Matt) made a thread about? My friend drove down from NY or something....

 

[Bobby B.]

Welcome to AutogeekOnline! Nice IROC-Z Me, John and Matt are from Long Island. I grew up in Amityville.