Honda S2000 Paint Correction and CQuartz Finest Coating Application

RaskyR1

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This 2003 Honda S2000 was in for a 2-step paint correction and CQF coating. Overall the car was in really nice shape for it's age and just needed a little love. :)


Process:

Wash - Traditional Wash with Megs Hyper Wash
Wheels - Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus & various brushes. Coated with OCP.
Tires - Cleaned with Megs D143 and Tuf-Shine brush. Dressed with Megs Hyper Dressing 3:1
Paint Prep - Nanos Skin Towel and Glide as lube
Paint Correction - Groit's Correct Cream on the G21 with Griot's MF BOSS pads followed by Perfecting Cream on yellow BOSS pads. Tight areas done with Rupes LHR75e
Deep scratch - Sanded with 1500/3000 (removed around 3-4 microns)
Pre-Coating Prep - Eraser wipe down followed by IPA wipe down
Coating - 3 coats CQF, IR Cured
Headlights - Polished and coated with Opti-Lens
Rear Trim - Coated with Opti-Lens
Exhaust - Optimum Metal Polish


Before pics

Road grim/tar


Tips


Bugs


Wheels were in nice shape...cars never seen a MN winter. ;)

Deeper scratch that needed to be sanded




Light scratches


All Prepped


50/50




Scratch removed




Finished pics




























Thanks for looking,

Rasky
 
Nicely done Chad as always!!! That seriously looks amazing!!!
 
great job.

this is a dumb question. how come you park the car on a ramp? or is it a lift?
 
Nice work on a future icon, if it isn't already! You don't see a lot of virgin ones anymore, looks factory fresh :dblthumb2:
 
Klasse Act said:
Nice work on a future icon, if it isn't already! You don't see a lot of virgin ones anymore, looks factory fresh :dblthumb2:
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Exactly!! I bought a leftover Silverstone Metallic 2005 in February of 2006. What a fun car, only had it til august though. I revisited getting a used one and all the young punky tuner kids have them with wheels tilted sideways and stereos and hoods and this and that and I passed or just gave up looking for one.
 
Always a jaw dropping turnaround with you man, great work.
 
Awesome work on one of my favorite Japanese cars. Along with the NSX and Supra.
 
Very impressive work. That shine is unreal. I'm a sucker for s2000s.
 
Thanks Guys! The S2000 is one of my favorites too and it's a shame they stopped making them. This one is all stock and owned by an older gentleman (early 50's I'd guess).




spam7788 said:
great job.

this is a dumb question. how come you park the car on a ramp? or is it a lift?
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The ramps are for clearance of the lift. ;)
 
Would you mind sharing a detailed step by step on the exhaust tips? I have never been able to attack them. I actually have never had success. I never get past removing the carbon...so I haven't gotten to metal polishing yet.
 
larry33 said:
Would you mind sharing a detailed step by step on the exhaust tips? I have never been able to attack them. I actually have never had success. I never get past removing the carbon...so I haven't gotten to metal polishing yet.
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Sure.

I'll hit these with a tar remover during the wash process and then later I hit them with #0000 steel wool and Opt Metal polish. I follow that up with Opt Metal on a MF towel.

My process may very depending on the tips and their material, but this is my general process for most cars.
 
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