[tdekany]

The car is going to be raced, had a terrible repaint with orange peel thrown in at no charge (Single Stage non metalic) so I can only do so much with it, but I think it will be an improvement. I can already tell that the finished paint is very finicky.

Tested the hood yesterday

PROCESS

CLAY
1200
2000
105 BLACK WOOL 2250RPM
105 WHITE PAD FLEX
205 WHITE PAD FLEX
POLI SEAL GREEN PAD
HD POXY GRAY 3M PAD FLEX

Here is the car at the start.



Hood - I worked on the right 3rd yesterday to test the paint out but 2000 grit wasn't going to cut it so I am going back to it tomorrow.















So today I decided to do the trunk instead.

Before with all the dust on it



After polishing











HD POXY is curing



AFTER HD POXY











WHAT AWAITS ME ON THE SIDES:





AND OF COURSE THE HOOD IS WAITING.

[tdekany]

DAY 2


Ok, the hood is done.

Here are some before pictures

Flash on



Without the flash



Middle of the hood



Left of the hood with bird droppings that didn't come out completely. I'd say they are reduced 50% - I removed alot of paint, I didn't want to pay for a repaint.


I addressed all the deep scratches and other inperfections first before sanding the whole hood. Actually a few times some of them.



After 105 Rotary/Flex





Here you can still see some swirls that were further compounded later. Back and forth, back and forth....



Before



All done



Now here are some random afters

First the HD POXY is curing on top of Poli Seal



DUN... DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





















ROOF IS NEXT

[catch]

wow! paint looks friggin new!

[tdekany]

Thank you!