Presidential Detailed: 2001 Honda S2000 TURBO!!

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This is the former S&R Racing car here in Tampa, a friend of mine picked the car up about a month or two ago and gave me a call to get it cleaned up for a show coming up. I must say, Ive seen the car before and was a little nervous with all the fiberglass molding and unsure condition of the paint. The entire front end is all aftermarket and I wasnt sure how the paint was going to hold up either, since it had cracked in a couple spots due to the flexing of the kit. Basically I told Rob, that I could make the car look a whole lot better, but was a little nervous to go for a full correction and he agreed. I ended up going at it with SIP/Orange and following with PO85rd/black and got very good results, actually night and day but the deeper swirling and some deeper scratched remained. Well on to the pics..

Exterior:
Dawn Soap Pre-Wash
Optimum Car Wash-Final Wash
COBRA UMF Wash Mitt
COBRA Deluxe "Jr" MF's
Dual Buckets with Grit Guards
3m Masking Tape
Adams Professional Clay Bar
P21S TAW
Meguairs APC+
Meguairs Hyperdressing
Menzerna SIP/Orange
Menzerna PO85rd/Black
Menzerna Top Inspection
Tons of Uber MF Towels(AP)
Black WOW
Griots Garage Wheel Cleaner Gel
Swissvax Pneu


LSP:
Lusso Oro applied with Uber Foam Applicator

Tools:
Dual Work Lamps
Dewalt Hi Speed Rotary
World's Greatest Boar's Hair Wheel Brush
Foam Pad Cleaning Brush
DD Detail Sponge
The Wheel Well/Fender Brush
The Spoke Brush
Canon Rebel XTi
Craftsmen 295MPH Vac/Blow
E-Z Detail Wheel Brush
Swissvax Wheel Brush

BEFORE:

Some pretty serious water etching..

There was quite a bit of hologramming from a previous detailer..

 

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We took the wheels off to clean up the undercarriage..

Wheel After..

Then we worked on the undercarriage..
BEFORE:

AFTER:

Rob being the helper he is, tightening the lugs..

 

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Now in the halogens..

50/50 on the hood with SIP/Orange..

 

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Taping off the edges to polish the inner rim of the vent..

A couple more before/afters..

And the rest of the afters in the halogens..there wasnt much sun where I was working..not to mention the tent I had to use because there was no garage accessible.

Couple of the sun shots I managed to get..

 

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Now finally finished..

And finally my favorite..I love to see the cars bead up after I finish them!

One on the way to the show that my GF took, I just cropped it.

 

[nitro78]

fantastic write up and a beautiful job! my favorite pic is the hood showing the canopy almost perfectly.:righton:

 

[mikep288]

fantastic write up and a beautiful job! my favorite pic is the hood showing the canopy almost perfectly.:righton:

Agreed, it almost looks like the hood needs to be ironed! Outstanding turn-around as usual!

 

[Emile]

Amazingly nice job with the after pictures. It's crazy how much more clarity and reflectivity you get after paint correction.

 

[killrflake]

Fantastic job bringing the paint back to life. Great pictures as well and the reflection shots are super.

 

[Showroom Shine]

Great Detail! The hood shot reminds me of The Batmobile! Black is So Awesome with no flaws!

 

[Presidential_Detail]

Haha! Thanks guys! Cant wait to post the next one!

 

[Mr. DC5]

Amazing.

 

[Old Pirate]

Great job Billy, looks sweet...........:cheers:

 

[Reddwarf]

Great job! That is just brilliant work. :applause:

 

[Presidential_Detail]

Thanks!

 

[RaskyR1]

fantastic write up and a beautiful job! my favorite pic is the hood showing the canopy almost perfectly.:righton:

I agree! Nice reflection shots! icture:

Great work Bro! :righton:

 

[mulder]

Definately some scary 'before' shots but what a turn around :buffing:

Some stunning reflections :applause:

 

[Presidential_Detail]

Yeah, it was a bit intimidating! But I managed to do ok, and didnt break anything! I was mostly worried about the painted coming off..