Black CTS-V detailed, M105/205/Fuzion, lots of pics

[Matt S.]

This is my buddy's car that I detailed a couple months ago. He doesn't have a garage or a place to wash it, so needless to say it gets neglected.

The car has the same exact mods as my Z06, down to the same exact cam grind and valve springs. It made 427rwhp last week N/A and is an '04 LS6 model.

The clear bra was starting to look like crap, so we decided to remove it. I painted the wheels a few months ago, and I don't think they've been cleaned since, as you can see in the pics.

I tested 3M Ultrafina with the blue Ultrafina pad vs M205 with a gray LC pad, and to be honest I could not tell a difference under any lighting. Even looking at distant objects to gauge paint depth, there was no real difference. M205 is definitely a winner considering it can remove minor swirls and finish down so nice.

Since the wheels looked like garbage, I had him work on them with M105 and a Mothers Powercone in the creases and between the spokes, which worked great. On the faces of the spokes, we used M105 with a 4" light cutting pad on the PC. They were very dull and gray from the etched brake dust, and being matte black doesn't help. He wanted them shinier and M105 did the trick.

Pics show lots of swirls, random RIDs (from cats maybe?) and lots of bird #### etching. The hood needed 3 or 4 passes of M105; I spent the longest time there. Looking at this paint the wrong way will induce swirling, so it was a major pain in the ass.

Anyways, here's the list of stuff I used:

-Washed with Megs Gold Class and those blue LC sponges which work awesome
-P21S Wheel Cleaner w/Daytona Speed Master brush
-Clayed with DP
-Meguiar's #105 with purple Kompressor foam on tough areas, yellow or orange CCS on the others. Also tested an orange Kompressor pad which I thought worked very well with M105.
-Meguiar's #205 with gray LC Kompressor and CCS pads
-Wolfgang Fuzion with red CCS

Wheels got M105 as mentioned and Opti-Seal.

Tires were dressed with Poorboy's Bold n Bright, and exhaust tips were polished with Menzerna's metal polish. I think that covers everything....on with the pics.

[Matt S.]

[Matt S.]

[supercharged]

Looks phenomenal, great work, Mathew.

[Surfer]

I love V's, have you checked out the new one, jeezus. I fell in love, makes competitors look bland and borring and the interior is nutz. Those Recaro seats rock, neighbor has an 09' but auto instead of manual as he has a bad knee. Ton of torque everywhere. I've got my eye on it for next car but so tied up in business right now. I could lease through biz and writeoff but don't want to as I like to play with and mod things haha.

[Matt S.]

The best part is, these cars were around $55-60k new, and are now worth $16-19k.

If the new V loses value anything like these older ones, I'll definitely be looking to pick one up in a few years.

[AudiTTman]

The car actually looks like if you touched it, black paint would come all off! Those are to date the best reflections i have seen on AutoGeek. Great job man!

[sal329]

Awesome work on a great car

[Pats300zx]

Beautiful job Matt...

[wisemonkey]

sweet