Lady in Red - 1986 Porsche - 4-Step Process

I have to say Mike, the finished "product" looks better than anything else I've seen on this forum - just spectacular. (and like you, I'm not a Porsche guy)
 
Fantastic job! I prefer machine over hand application just like you. I noticed the DP Paint Prep was applied by hand. Any particular reason?
 
UglyBetty said:
Wow! She's a beauty......now!
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I agree. The Porsche and the Model A are sitting outside right now as I'm waiting for the owner to come pick them up.

I took high resolution pictures of the finish on both cars in FULL SUN and also a "walk-around" video in full sun to show and document the results and they are both truly swirl free, haze free and hologram free.

The paint on both to them looks exactly how you want paint to look and that's with a deep, wet shine.

The bad news is I'm not going to get time to work with the pictures today so they'll have to wait till next week.



addysdaddy said:
I have to say Mike, the finished "product" looks better than anything else I've seen on this forum - just spectacular. (and like you, I'm not a Porsche guy)
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Thanks Tony,

All my co-workers have been coming out to the garage and looking at the Porsche and drooling over it. I have to keep telling them to...

Back away from the shiny red thing...


SonOfOC said:
Fantastic job! I prefer machine over hand application just like you.

I noticed the DP Paint Prep was applied by hand. Any particular reason?
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Well anyone that's read any of my almost 40,000 posts now on this forum knows I'm a "Machine Guy" and I apply everything I can by machine.

But in this case, because of all the intricate areas and thin panels in the lower front and rear of the car it was going to be faster and simpler to work by hand.

I also answered this same question when it was asked in post #3 of this thread...


rmagnus said:
Mike that looks amazing.

Q for ya...during this step below did you apply by hand or machine to remove the oils?
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And my reply in post #12

Mike Phillips said:
I did it all by hand using a gold finger pocket. I prefer to work by machine but this body style would mean switching between multiple tools and pad sizes so I just rolled up my sleeves and did it all by hand.

By the words, all by hand that means I polished everything that was red, all the paint on the front of the grill, around the whale tail, ever portion of red paint was clayed, compounded, polished, cleaned and then coated.
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:xyxthumbs:
 
Couple more shots from this morning...


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We shot a new video using the Lady in Red...

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Here's the walk-around video showing the paint in FULL SUN






And the owners was grinning ear to ear when he picked up is date night car...


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"And the owners was grinning ear to ear when he picked up is date night car..."

I bet he was. He must have been absolutely amazed when he saw his new Porsche.
 
Amazing Mike! I hope to be able to work as quick and efficient as you someday Mike.
 
Nice job on the slantnose, was there a "brick" cellphone in there, LOL!

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Mike, that looks incredible but that goes without saying for your work. Forgive me if I missed it, but what coating did you use after the Paint Prep? Thanks
 
Hey make , im having a hard time removing some linear scratches from my car.

Like this one i marked in one of your pictures, all the rest goes after a few passes, but some are resilient and after many passes still wont come out , and i cant feel them with my nail also.




I have a griots , mf pads , foam pads , many compounds and polishes.

What do you recomend?
 
3m 5000 grit to feather it out.

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R4IDER said:
Hey make , im having a hard time removing some linear scratches from my car.

Like this one i marked in one of your pictures, all the rest goes after a few passes, but some are resilient and after many passes still wont come out , and i cant feel them with my nail also.




I have a griots , mf pads , foam pads , many compounds and polishes.

What do you recomend?
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Any scratches that are not coming out are either RIDS or you just need to either spend more time/passes removing more paint to level the surface or get more aggressive.


Remind us...


What are you working on?


And just to note.. the scratches shown in the above picture all polished easy with the tool I was using plus pad and the Uber compound.


:)
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
Thank you sir... always nice to see people appreciate not only the hard work but the pictures too...

...and polished the aluminum wheels starting at 8:00am this morning and finished at about 11:30am.


By "all by hand" I polished everything that was red, all the paint on the front of the grill, around the whale tail, ever portion of red paint was clayed, compounded, polished, cleaned and then coated.


No time to post any more pictures but as soon as I can carve out the time I'll share some more from this project.


:)
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That dripping wet paint is surely accented by the bling of the wheels :props:
 
Hey mike thx for the response! it does not say on the first post wich tool u used , so im guessing a rotary buffer?
 
Black's Magic said:
Forgive me if I missed it, but what coating did you use after the Paint Prep?

Thanks
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You didn't miss it. I didn't say.


Anyone that's been reading my posts and articles on detailing discussion forums since 2002 knows I always choose my words very carefully. In fact, the writing style I developed for posting to forums is what I call defensive writing. That means if I can't defect it... I don't post it. Another way to say that is if I post it... I've already made sure whatever it is I'm saying is bulletproof. Kind of some training I obtained as a veteran of the Zaino vs NXT wars of which I'm a veteran.


:D
 
Mike, there was a Zaino vsn NXT war, kinda like coming to a gun fight w/ a knife, LOL! I've heard of the 6 day war, so that one was like the 6 minute war, LOL!

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