Black TA - 600 rwhp

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ZaneO

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The owner is trying to sell this TA, so he wanted it cleaned up before hand. It is a 2001 Ram Air Trans Am with heads/cam/nitrous making in the neighborhood of 600 rwhp.



It was in desperate need of some attention. The paint was pretty heavily swirled and very gritty. *Lots* of stuff on the claybar. It didn't turn out quite as well as I hoped, but I was working on a very tight schedule...still not too bad though. It was so cold when I started that sheets of ice were forming on the spoiler.



The lighting wasn't the best, so the pictures aren't my best.



Engine:

Optimum APC agitated with Meguiar's spoke brush

Armor All Tire Foam

Final Wipedown



Exterior:

Optimum APC wheels & wells

Eagle One A2Z on tires

Meguiar's NXT wash

Zaino Z18 claybar w/ NXT soap lube

Poorboy's SSR 2.5 via light cut pad

Klasse AIO via polishing pad

Zaino Z2 Pro

Zaino Z8

Armor All Tire Foam in wells

Meguiar's Natural Shine on tires



Before:



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After:



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Thanks for looking.



Question/Comments?
 
Mitchubishievo said:
GORGEOUS! I dunno why you said it didn't come out to your liking...looks damn good to me.
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By the looks of things in this picture,
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There are still some swirls in the paint. Time is a bad factor when it comes to detailing. :sadpace:
 
ScubaStevo said:
Time is a bad factor when it comes to detailing. :sadpace:
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:werd: I hate having time limits or $$$ limits. I have a feeling Zane feels the same way too.



Given the limited # of steps and time, I think the car turned out terrific! :woot2:
 
ScubaStevo said:
By the looks of things in this picture, There are still some swirls in the paint.
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Where? I'm not doubting that some remain. But given that direct sunlight, smaller than a pea, only hits the rear by the tail light from 10 feet away, how can you tell?



Circle the swirls that you see.



Awesome work Zane.
 
Spilchy said:
Where? I'm not doubting that some remain. But given that direct sunlight, smaller than a pea, only hits the rear by the tail light from 10 feet away, how can you tell?



Circle the swirls that you see.



Awesome work Zane.
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yea i agree, is he being sarcastic? it looks totally fine in that pic and that only sun spot is too small to see anything...
 
OK Zane this is the second bad a$$ car you posted and talked about HP, but no under hood pic!? Come on man. Great job BTW. ;)
 
Thanks, everyone! I appreciate it.





Pontman43 said:
OK Zane this is the second bad a$$ car you posted and talked about HP, but no under hood pic!? Come on man. Great job BTW. ;)
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Ain't the best picture (or too much to look at), but:



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;)
 
Zane: Exemplary work for the short number of steps used!





I know, first hand, how hard (pun intended) GM paint is to work with, especially black. To about 99% of people out there, that car is in *perfect* shape.
 
Yeah, I don't know what the deal is with GM paint...not too much fun and ends up being about 75% of what I work on.



One of these days, I'm going to have to become proficient with that rotary-thingy :)
 
ZaneO said:
Yeah, I don't know what the deal is with GM paint...not too much fun and ends up being about 75% of what I work on.



One of these days, I'm going to have to become proficient with that rotary-thingy :)
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Couple that with some Powergloss and a cutting pad and GM black is child's play compared to what you are doing now. Seriously.
 
GSRstilez said:
Couple that with some Powergloss and a cutting pad and GM black is child's play compared to what you are doing now. Seriously.
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Very soon I hope! I just need *lots* of practice before getting near a customer's car.
 
ScubaStevo said:
By the looks of things in this picture,

There are still some swirls in the paint. Time is a bad factor when it comes to detailing. :sadpace:
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I would also like to see where you see the swirls? Sure ZaneO said things didn't come out to his liking, but unless he shows us a picture of swirls, I'll let the pictures do the talking as they look amazing. Show me the swirls you still see and I'll shut my mouth.



By the way ZaneO that car looks excellent. With the amount of steps you did the car looks fantastic, cant wait till this customer gets his hands on the C5 he's looking for so you can post more pictures of your detailing skills :2thumbs: Keep up the good work!
 
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