imported_themightytimmah
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This was a 1994 TT Supra that I did for Autopia member Dan94TT. He had it repainted about 5 months ago - and damn was it good. There was absolutely no orange peel, dings, runs, solvent pop, etc. However, the repaint was as soft as I've seen before, and it had moderate swirling and very severe hologramming from the body shop's buff job. There were perfectly parallel hologram lines on every panel - and they looked like they were made with wool.
This paintjob took a few tries to get right - I wanted a one-step polish (except on the hood, which was worse than the rest and was going to need 2 or 3). I tried Blackfire SRC FP on a LC white, CCS green, Propel Blue, CCS orange via PC, all to no avail. OP didn't give me any better of a result. Before giving up and going OP/Orange then SRC/black, I gave FPII a shot on a CCS green pad. I was surprised how much more cut FPII has than SRC FP on regular paint - SRC FP didn't touch the deeper swirls, but FPII completely erased them in a few passes. I'm definetly going to keep FPII in my arsenal in the future - its half the price, has more cut, and in the grand scale of things, doesn't give up *that* much gloss at all to SRC FP.
It was still so soft though, and although it would polish out perfect, any towel I used would induce minor swirls. This shot up my original plan of using Z2pro under Souveran, and I decided that carnauba/glaze was the only way to go.
I also found another good trick - after polishing with a rotary, don't go over the whole car via PC. Just inspect it in good lighting (I had perfect sun) for holograms, and put a blue tape line over the holograms. This saved me over an hour and gave the same quality result.
Before
Process:
Wash with Z7 at condo complex coin-op
Skipped clay, as the car had absolutely *zero* contaminants (only 500ish miles on the repaint, garage kept)
Hood got HTEC/OP 50:50/CCS Orange/1500rpm to remove deep marring
FPII/CCS green/1500rpm
BF SRC FP/LC white/PC 6 on isolated holograms
Hood got 3M Dark car SMR/W8006/PC (even FPII was leaving *bad* hazing)
Customer supplied Meg's #7/W9000/PC 6 (I was very impressed with how #7 works into the paint via PC... I've used it by hand before and I ended up tossing out the bottle)
Pinnacle Souveran
Wheels got Mother's Aluminum Polish and Collinite 845iw
Windows got IG
These pics don't really do the car justice - I wish I had taken film photos with a SLR, cause it really was *that* good.
This paintjob took a few tries to get right - I wanted a one-step polish (except on the hood, which was worse than the rest and was going to need 2 or 3). I tried Blackfire SRC FP on a LC white, CCS green, Propel Blue, CCS orange via PC, all to no avail. OP didn't give me any better of a result. Before giving up and going OP/Orange then SRC/black, I gave FPII a shot on a CCS green pad. I was surprised how much more cut FPII has than SRC FP on regular paint - SRC FP didn't touch the deeper swirls, but FPII completely erased them in a few passes. I'm definetly going to keep FPII in my arsenal in the future - its half the price, has more cut, and in the grand scale of things, doesn't give up *that* much gloss at all to SRC FP.
It was still so soft though, and although it would polish out perfect, any towel I used would induce minor swirls. This shot up my original plan of using Z2pro under Souveran, and I decided that carnauba/glaze was the only way to go.
I also found another good trick - after polishing with a rotary, don't go over the whole car via PC. Just inspect it in good lighting (I had perfect sun) for holograms, and put a blue tape line over the holograms. This saved me over an hour and gave the same quality result.
Before
Process:
Wash with Z7 at condo complex coin-op
Skipped clay, as the car had absolutely *zero* contaminants (only 500ish miles on the repaint, garage kept)
Hood got HTEC/OP 50:50/CCS Orange/1500rpm to remove deep marring
FPII/CCS green/1500rpm
BF SRC FP/LC white/PC 6 on isolated holograms
Hood got 3M Dark car SMR/W8006/PC (even FPII was leaving *bad* hazing)
Customer supplied Meg's #7/W9000/PC 6 (I was very impressed with how #7 works into the paint via PC... I've used it by hand before and I ended up tossing out the bottle)
Pinnacle Souveran
Wheels got Mother's Aluminum Polish and Collinite 845iw
Windows got IG
These pics don't really do the car justice - I wish I had taken film photos with a SLR, cause it really was *that* good.
