Oakes Detailed: 1991 Porsche 911 Turbo - Blue Whale Revival

**Oakes** · 12-19-2011, 06:45 PM

This project spanned quite some time and frankly its one of my personal prouder moments honestly. This 964 Porsche 911 Turbo in Royal Blue spent quite some time with me getting the brakes redone due to fading and a color change, some rusted parts refinished, new stainless steel brake lines installed, other metal components polished up, full paint correction/restoration and the vehicle was completely ceramic coated to wrap it all up.

I documented this detail a little differently than I normally do in the pictures I took to show, one new thing I'm trying out is labeling body panels and their paint depth readings which you will see below before the correction photos.

Definitely take the time to check out all the pictures and their descriptions! I'll start it off with the day she got here...

First order of business was removing the original brake calipers to have them stripped, torn down, powdercoated and restenciled and then rebuilt! Heres the original black finish fading and peeling away.

While the calipers were out getting refinished, the hubs were in need of some recoating, here is the passenger front before and after.

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Also while the wheels were off, I did some metal polishing of the heat sheilds in the rear

Then the calipers made their way back! Heres how they looked.

Simple yet elegant finish for this blue/silver/polished color scheme!

With all the mechanical work done and stainless steel brake lines installed, we moved on to the paint work, I first visually inspected it and here were my findings:

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Seeing that it was in desperate need of proper correction, I took measurements throughout the vehicle after it was masked off. I took some photos of the major panels and took various paint depth readings. I then took those same images and labeled where the different depths were recorded so I could show an idea of the consistency in depth and where there were areas of concern.

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So with the readings known, trim masked off, paint received a full IPA wipedown twice to ensure it was as bare as possible. I got on to the correction work using various combinations throughout the vehicle. Here are some before and after photos as well as 50/50s

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So approximately 9 hours of correction, polishing, paint cleansing and alcohol/IronX wash the paint was ready for ceramic application. Left to dry for 24 hours, here are some finished paint photos of the corrective work both before and after the ceramic was applied!

**Oakes** · 12-19-2011, 06:45 PM

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The Royal Blue was showing as perfectly as it should now for such a low mile example of a 911 Turbo from 20 years ago! Here are the finished reflection shots followed by full profile photos of the vehicle, unfortunately we've been plagued with overcast lately so no good outside photos of this beauty.

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Full Profile photos of the vehicle!

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Thank you for looking and hope you got to read the whole thing! Appreciate any feedback and comments. Enjoy!

Nick Oakes

**Marc08EX** · 12-19-2011, 06:52 PM

Nicely done Nick!!! I really admire your work.

**NoleFan** · 12-19-2011, 06:55 PM

Wow, great work. I like the new layout with paint thickness readings. Would be very helpful while polishing the car also. Are the headlights foggy, or is that just how they look? And do you always change the brakes before doing a detail?

Looks great, I am sure the owner was proud.

**Oakes** · 12-19-2011, 07:12 PM

Thanks guys! The tailights and head lights were polished, thats just their stock appearance from 1991! Not much more I can do with them.

Just this vehicle and the E55 AMG I recently completed received brake work past the normal cleaning/protection.