Eric_Witt
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I had a chance to get back up to Maryville TN to visit one of my good clients. He had a Black 1993 Dodge Viper RT/10 that needed a little TLC. In 1993 there were only 50 of these bad boys made and this one only has 1600 miles on the clock. The owner also changed out the front bumper and hood to a second generation hood and bumper, and this motor is now pushing out around 900whp. For being almost 20 years old, this car is in amazing condition, it just needed a little Tru Shine luvin to bring it up to the condition that it should be. Lets get this going.
Here is the car when I arrived.
So with this car not having a roof, we are going to do things a little different then we normally would. You cant give a car a foam bath if it doesn't have a roof, So for this car, I opted to use ONR (Optimum No Rinse). ONR is a rinseless wash product that you just add to your bucket of water. I like to pre-spray the car down w/ ONR using a spray bottle and the properly diluted amount and just spray it on each panel. What this does is it gives the ONR a head start on surrounding the dirt molecules and helps prevent the wash mitt from dragging and grinding dirt into the paint.
After I spray the panels with ONR I get my 100% sheep skin wash mitt with my bucket and Grit Guard at the bottom. Next you take the mitt and slightly wring it out to where there is still water dripping but not a bunch that's just slopping around. and then you just wipe the panel with barley any pressure and then follow it with a damp micro fiber towel to remove the excess.
here are a few pics to help explain. ( This also works great on other roofless cars such as Shelby Cobra's, Old MGA's, Austin Healey's, etc.)
You can also use this product during the Winter in your garage and have barley any water on the floor. and If you choose to use it in the sun, you can do your car panel by panel to prevent water spots.
Now with this car not being very dirty and having so little miles, I went ahead and used ONR on the wheels too. I sprayed the wheels with the ONR solution and used a Wheel Woolie to agitate the brake dust and then I wrapped a Micro fiber towel around the WW to remove the brake dust. ( I rolled the car forward to help get behind the brake caliber where the wheel woolie couldn't reach)
now it was time to tape up all the black plastic trim or anywhere I didn't want residue getting on.
The ONR does add protection to the paint. So I had to wipe down the surface a few times with Alcohol to help remove this protection.
Here are a few Before & After pics of the paint. remember this car is almost 20 years old
for cutting this car I ended up using my Griot's 6in DA and Surbuff pad with m105. And for polishing I used D300 and Tang pad. M205 wasn't phasing it? (This was a very tough clear coat and this combination worked wonders)
