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Old 06-09-2010, 04:35 PM   #1
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1994 Porsche Detailed for Operation Comfort Modeled by Brittany

1994 Porsche Detailed for "Operation Comfort" Modeled by Brittany from Stuart, Florida


This is a 1994 Porsche 964 Turbo 3.6 I detailed for Sam and then had a beautiful local girl Brittany, model it for a charity we support called Operation Comfort.

Sam's 1994 Porsche 964 Turbo 3.6



Brittany making the car look great!




Sam, Brittany and Autogeek's Support for Operation Comfort Video


From Wikpedia.org
1994 Porsche 964 Turbo 3.6
Porsche released the 964 Turbo 3.6 in January, 1993, now featuring a turbocharged version of the 3.6 litre M64 engine and producing 360 PS (260 kW; 360 hp) @ 5500 rpm, the 3.6 litre powered Turbo was produced only for model year 1993/1994, with fewer than 1,500 of them produced in total, making it one of the rarest and most sought after Porsches produced since the 959.
Below you'll find the write-up for the process I used to remove the swirls and restore a show car finish. This was actually a simple approach but the key to getting great results is taking your time and massaging the swirls out of the paint section at a time. Being careful around plastic, rubber or felt trim, and also being mindful around the deck-lid on a car like this as under the louvers was a black grill taping or covering the open sections will protect the grill from any splatter residue when machine cleaning and polishing surrounding paint.


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Re: 1994 Porsche Detailed for Operation Comfort Modeled by Brittany

First, here's the products, pads and tools I used...

DP Waterless Auto Wash
Wolfgang Elastic Poly Clay
Wolfgang Clay Lubricant
3M Automotive Performance Masking Tape
Porter Cable 7424XP
Lake Country Flat Pads 5.5" Orange, White & Blue
Lake Country Hydro Pads 4" - Cyan, Tangerine
Griot's Garage 3" Orange and Red pads
Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover
Wolfgang Finishing Glaze
Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealant
Wolfgang Fuzion
Cobra Supreme 530 Microfiber Towels
Cobra Arctic White Edgeless Microfiber Polishing Towels
Gust Easy Duster
Microfiber Gloves
Glass Master Pro Glass Cleaner
Wolfgang Black Diamond Tire Gel
Wolfgang Instant Detail Spritz
Cobra Indigo Microfiber Towel
Cobra Flex Foam Tire Dressing Applicators



Washing
The car arrived clean, so instead of washing the car I carefully wiped the car clean using DP Waterless Wash.

Tip to help prevent rust...
When it comes to classic cars many owners prefer you DON'T wash their car with a normal car wash because you'll introduce water into all the nooks and crannies of the car where rust can form unseen. Due to the cost of doing a body-off restoration in order to remove rust a waterless, rinseless wash is a good service to offer your customers who own classic and antique cars.


Claying
I used the Baggie Test to check for above surface bonded contaminants and the contamination level was very low but I went ahead and clayed each panel to ensure there were no above surface bonded contaminants and because that's my normal procedure for show car work.




Visual Inspection
I inspected the paint in the sun when Sam first showed me his Porsche and the sun revealed the normal swirls and scratches most all cars have including special interest cars. After wiping the car clean and claying the paint and then wiping the paint clean, I took some pictures to show the swirls...


This is the paint in the middle of the hood just above the Porsche badge, the paint over the rest of the car looked just like this under bright light or in direct sunshine...




This is the paint on the driver's side of the hood just in front of the windshield...



A close-up of the same section...



This is the driver's side rear fender, a few days after this picture was taken Brittany will use this area as a mirror...



Close-ups of the same areas...







Visual Inspection Results
Overall the paint was filled with swirls, scratches, water spots and some kind of surface staining that required polishing to remove....


Test Spot
I did a Test Spot on the hood just above the Porsche badge and found the Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover and Finishing Glaze were more than up to the job of removing the swirls, restoring a show car finish.


Paint above the green painter's tape is before condition



I removed the painter's tape and used the residue line to enable the camera to focus on the surface. The paint below the line was machine cleaned with Wolfgang TSR and then machine polished with Wolfgang Finishing Glaze. After the tape was removed the paint was wiped with Mineral Spirits to remove any polishing residue.

The dots or spots you see in the after shots are either pinholes in the paint or tiny specs or divots from rock chips.



Before - the blob above the light is touch-up paint





The Wolfgang Twins worked out to be a perfect fix for Sam the owner because he already owns a PC and I wanted to keep the process simple so that anytime in the future should the need arise he would be able to remove any future swirls and scratches with a proven process that anyone can get pro results with even if it's their first time.

For example,

Proof You Can Do It! - Joe The Detailer - Black Porsche Turned into Black Pearl!


All the techniques I used over this Porsche can be learned from these three resources...

Incredibly detailed and thorough...
Tips and Techniques for using the PC 7424XP Dual Action Polisher to remove Below Surface Defects


When machine polishing paint, you can only tackle a small section at a time, how you buff the section is called a "Section Pass". Then you simply repeat a successful "Section Pass" over the rest of the car and be sure to overlap each section pass a little into the previous section for a uniform appearance.

Show Car Garage Video: How-To do a "Section Pass" when Machine Polishing with a DA Polisher

Show Car Garage Video: How To Remove Swirls, Scratches and Water Spots using a PC 7424XP, Meguiar's G110v2 or Griot's Garage 6" Random Orbital Polisher




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Re: 1994 Porsche Detailed for Operation Comfort Modeled by Brittany

After taping-off any trim and the black grill under the louvers on the rear deck-lid I simply duplicated the process used in my test spot over the rest of the car.






In the below picture, I've actually already machine polished the door using an orange pad with the TSR because I wanted to make sure the staining problem could be fixed before buffing out the rest of the car. Whatever it was it polished out clear so I moved on with the rest of the car.



I started with doing the complete process to just the roof to knock it out and to avoid having to wipe any splatter off lower panels after they had been polished and to avoid having to lean against paint on the door previously polished when having to return to the roof.








After Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover...



Next, Wolfgang Finishing Glaze using a white polishing pad followed with a second pass using a gray finishing pad...



Sealed with Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealant 3.0 using a blue finishing pad on the 4.0 speed setting.



Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealant drying...



While the paint sealant was drying and I was finished with roof except for hand waxing with Fusion, I moved to the lower panels and started in on any panel that was thin or difficult to reach using both 4" pads and 3" pads.

The section in front of the windshield was worked-over using a 4" Cyan Pad on the 5.0 Speed setting with Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover, later to be re-polished with Wolfgang Finishing Glaze on a white 4" CCS pad.

Before





Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover






I used the 4" pad around the B-piller, around the windows, the front and rear bumpers and some of the other curvy, tight areas.



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Re: 1994 Porsche Detailed for Operation Comfort Modeled by Brittany

To work on the paint under the whale tail, I used the Griot's Garage 3" Mini Polisher...




The paint around the louvers and the louvers were the most difficult areas to work on and while the paint was greatly improved in this area there are still deeper scratches remaining that can be removed but will require more time to work out carefully by hand or machine...





If I work on this car again in the future I'll either have the owner check into having the black grill removed or I'll have to do it myself so that there's no risk of causing any damage to the grill or getting splatter on it from multiple machine polishing steps...

Most of the time when I look at areas like this detailed before me I find spatter or the other guy's wax...



Polishing and sealing were both done with the red finishing/waxing pads offered by Griot's Garage for their 3" Mini Polisher.





At this point the entire car is now sealed with Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealant 3.0, this was Saturday night.



Sunday afternoon I removed most of the tape and carefully removed any residue where the tape-lines were and then applied a second coat very carefully, (around the trim), and let it set-up for about 45 minutes.








After wiping off the second coating of the Wolfgang DGPS 3.0 I opened her up and started doing what I call detailing.

"Polishing paint is polishing paint, detailing is getting the wax out of the cracks"


As I was detailing the car I took a few pictures and created a thread in our Tricks, Tips and Techniques forum group.



This is called Stretching
The "Stretching Shot" is when you have all the doors, trunk lid, hood etc., opened up so you can wipe down and detail all the nooks and crannies on the car to remove any polish or wax residue.







Kind of the idea of how we stretch out only as it applies to a car... of course some cars look cooler than others when they're stretching...




Next up it's time for Brittany to take over...


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Re: 1994 Porsche Detailed for Operation Comfort Modeled by Brittany

The Photo and Video Shoot
On Wednesday, both Brittany and Sam came by for the video and photo shoot... both were very happy to be a part of supporting Operation Comfort.

It hurts me to say this because I poured my heart and soul into the polishing work on the Porsche but... Brittany easily outshines the Porsche....


Here's Brittany and I going over the technique for applying Wolfgang Fuzion by hand for the second video.





Here's Brittany admiring the shine and then pointing out some wax residue I missed...











Yancy took this shot and we had a poster made out of it...


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Re: 1994 Porsche Detailed for Operation Comfort Modeled by Brittany

After a few lessons on how to machine polish Brittany has the confidence to use the Porter Cable 7424XP DA Polisher to gently apply a liquid paint sealant to the Porsche...








Wearing our Microfiber Gloves, Brittany gives the paint a final wipe to reveal a streak-free, crystal clear finish...



























Now that the Porsche has a finish worthy of the Porsche name, it's time to go for a ride!











She waves goodbye and then we never seen here again...







Look at how the paint sparkles in the sun like a polished gemstone...


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Re: 1994 Porsche Detailed for Operation Comfort Modeled by Brittany

Wait!

Remember the swirls and scratches in the fenders?


Quote:
This is the driver's side rear fender, a few days after this picture was taken Brittany will use this area as a mirror...



Close-ups of the same areas...





Need a mirror?








Thank you Sam and Brittany for your help and support for Operation Comfort!


Next?





Products Showcased
DP Waterless Auto Wash
Wolfgang Elastic Poly Clay
Wolfgang Clay Lubricant
3M Automotive Performance Masking Tape
Porter Cable 7424XP
Lake Country Flat Pads 5.5" Orange, White & Blue
Lake Country Hydro Pads 4" - Cyan, Tangerine
Griot's Garage 3" Orange and Red pads
Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover
Wolfgang Finishing Glaze
Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealant
Wolfgang Fuzion
Cobra Supreme 530 Microfiber Towels
Cobra Arctic White Edgeless Microfiber Polishing Towels
Gust Easy Duster
Microfiber Gloves
Glass Master Pro Glass Cleaner
Wolfgang Black Diamond Tire Gel
Wolfgang Instant Detail Spritz
Cobra Indigo Microfiber Towel
Cobra Flex Foam Tire Dressing Applicators


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Re: 1994 Porsche Detailed for Operation Comfort Modeled by Brittany

The fun video...


Detail a car for a Veteran

Join me in supporting a great cause and that's to financially support Operation Comfort by detailing a car and then donating the profit or a portion of the profit to Operation Comfort. To kick start this program I've donated the profit from this detail to Operation Comfort.


The serious video...




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Re: 1994 Porsche Detailed for Operation Comfort Modeled by Brittany

Incredible! The model is not too bad looking either.
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