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GOT PREP?
This ultima has been a project for quite sometime—the owner owns the speed shop where we use to rent space. He bought it as a rolling chasis, then installed a crate (well they opened up and did forged pistons, etc) LS7. The car was then painted…that’s where we came in.
When we received the car it was about one week out of the booth..the paint was soft, but we didn’t sand it. I have always felt that if you sand it, you buff it. Seems to me that when you don’t have to buff it one might not be as cautious when sanding edges, inaccessible areas, keeping the paper clean, etc. It didn’t matter, we just had to work a little harder to remove a few tracers…
The sanding marks were removed with M105/rotary orange pad. We did use some twisted wool on some tracers and we did resand a few areas to remove tracers.
We then moved to M105/flex orange pad, before finishing with M205/flex red ABP flat red pad.
The car was then washed and we applied OCW to the paint.
The interior was covered with bodyshop dust…..
Firewall was sanded too—this was not fun to correct!
This was fun to buff without burning an edge!
Doors were removed:
In process—M105 behaves so differently on aftermarket paint, it was *definitely* designed for this purpose.
Hereis an after shot of a door:
Yep, sanded inside the doors too.
You can see that we are making a mess with the rotary—some of the “slopes” and curves required that the pad be “halfed” on the panel creating huge amounts of sling!
The wing was sprayed with a translucent blue candy, then smoked:
In this picture we are almost ready to wash her down---thank goodness!
In the washbay:
Random after pics:
After the paint cured a little more, the final step was to create/install the paint protection film:
When we received the car it was about one week out of the booth..the paint was soft, but we didn’t sand it. I have always felt that if you sand it, you buff it. Seems to me that when you don’t have to buff it one might not be as cautious when sanding edges, inaccessible areas, keeping the paper clean, etc. It didn’t matter, we just had to work a little harder to remove a few tracers…
The sanding marks were removed with M105/rotary orange pad. We did use some twisted wool on some tracers and we did resand a few areas to remove tracers.
We then moved to M105/flex orange pad, before finishing with M205/flex red ABP flat red pad.
The car was then washed and we applied OCW to the paint.
The interior was covered with bodyshop dust…..
Firewall was sanded too—this was not fun to correct!
This was fun to buff without burning an edge!
Doors were removed:
In process—M105 behaves so differently on aftermarket paint, it was *definitely* designed for this purpose.
Hereis an after shot of a door:
Yep, sanded inside the doors too.
You can see that we are making a mess with the rotary—some of the “slopes” and curves required that the pad be “halfed” on the panel creating huge amounts of sling!
The wing was sprayed with a translucent blue candy, then smoked:
In this picture we are almost ready to wash her down---thank goodness!
In the washbay:
Random after pics:
After the paint cured a little more, the final step was to create/install the paint protection film:
