Wes_R

Hey GT2/GT3 gang,

I recently became a sponsor of Rennlist thanks to Mike at Internet Brands and I just wanted to share this detailing write up on a GT3RS that I did back in Dec.

Small world but it turns out I actually knew the owner and we had gone to school together but he was a few years older then me so I didn't recognize him at first.

Anyways again on to the write up hope you guys enjoy seeing the process!



First off the initial walk around












Brought it in to the garage and started cleaning the wheels first

Starting with the inner barrel


Lugnuts and calipers




and rimface




Moving on to the exhaust, steel wool was used to clean the outside and inside.

Lol, free advertising for Courtney at EU


All clean




Engine also got a quick shampoo and dressing

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Finally after all the prep now we can start washing the car starting with the rinse


Cars are always washed using the 2 Bucket Method. If you are not familiar with the 2 Bucket Method, in a nutshell it is basically 2 buckets, one water only, the other soap. The water only bucket is where you rinse off the dirt from your mitt before placing it back in the soap water thus eliminating the potential to drag dirt all over your paint and causing swirls.

This is the dirt from a previous car. You definitely don't want to be dragging this all over your paint. Also notice the bucket with the sponge is pretty much clean


Rinsed out and new soap and water


Washing panel by panel starting with the roof


And rinsing off the dirt


Other details taken care of




After rinsing the soap off while the car was still wet I began to clay the paint to remove any embedded dirt in the clearcoat


Pretty rough




Finally began to dry it off with a microfibre towel




All rubber trim was masked off




Paint measurements were taken in microns to look for any low spots to be careful of and to see if anything had been repainted that the owner might not have been aware of













Finally the polishing can begin and a medium cutting polish and pad were used to clean up the swirls

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Here is a cool artsy fartsy shot of me polishing




After the polishing was done the masking tape was removed




Then alcohol was brought out to wipe down the panels to remove oils left behind by the polish so that the wax could have a clean surface to bond to

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Here is a teaser of the shine achieved with no wax on yet




After the wipe down the panels were double checked with a special light that omits the same spectrum light as the sun


Perfect




Wax applied was Swissvax Concorso




While the wax was curing the tires were dressed with a satin finish. Personally I don't really like the shiny stuff




Starting now with the interior I began vacuuming


Getting in between the seats




Started dusting the cracks and crevices








Pulled out a different brush with longer bristles to reach behind the tach




After the dusting and brushing I can finally wipe down the different surfaces

I really love this shot for some reason


Wiping down the doors


The roll cage


Even the extinguisher lol




A finishing that I love to add to the detail is cleaning the pedals. Lol at the end of the detail and when the customer is taking delivery, they always say that the feel bad to sit in the car afterwards hahaha




Finally I cleaned the windows but doing the back inside windows was the worst! Luckily I have been doing hot yoga lol so I was able to handle the job




And now after all that hard work here are the final pics!

Starting with some sun shots


No swirls




Finished interior shots








Exterior finished shots








I think this pic is pretty cool too












I love the way the beam of light and flare looks in this pic


15km speed limit


Beautiful reflection shot on the spoiler!


Interesting roof shot






And finally the last artsy fartsy


I hope you guys and gals enjoyed reading through the documentation!

1198r

Stunning work and stunning outcome. Shame your not in UAE!

Cogito_Ergo_Zoom

Looks amazing. All of a sudden I'm wanting to trade for an orange .1 RS!

jenk12m

Man, quality work!!!!

Did this car have clear bra on it or was it all bare paint.

kristob

Nice work

ILLCOMM

Nice.

Who is this person in Seattle?

Wes_R

Thanks! Lol I wish you were in Toronto.

Lol, the power of advertising.

Thanks! It did have a clear bra on.

Thank you!

I good shop out by you is North West Auto Salon. The owners name is Ben I believe.

Joe S.

Looks great!

Do you clean the alcantara with anything?

Matrog

Gald to see you restored her

tcsracing1

man, would love for you to get your hands on my RS. Super job.

Anybody notice how low this car sits? Id say zero travel.

GentlemanRacer

Didn't know our cars looked so much better detailed!

Great job!

CRex

Stunning work and all. But can you please explain your before and after shots:

"Before"


"After"


As a photographer myself it's unusual to be able to frame two separate exposures at two different points in time exactly the same way--down to the location, contents and bokeh of each reflection (such as the highlights from the curvature of the front wheel). Waist-level exposures such as the pair above are particularly challenging since they're shot crouched. A tripod doesn't make sense here as that'll most certainly get in the way of your polishing work (plus you have a pic of the entire team polishing which doesn't show any of that multitude of tripods that would've been necessary) . Multiply these "pairs" of exposures over your half-dozen angles/locations and that creates a rather implausible combination--unless your "after" shots is actually the same exposure as "before".

I'm in no way discrediting your work--in fact this all started as I got SO mesmerized by the finished product that I kept staring at the pictures again and again. I would've said you did top-notch work with or without the pictures in question. Just that the photographer in me sees something that doesn't compute, hence my question...

MirageJHU

I'm not sure if this is what OP did, but last time I had a detailer friend come over my house, he had his camera on a tripod, took a picture of a really bad section of my FD. He didn't move anything, went in and he polished it. When he was happy, he then took the same picture, the only difference being time. So that's one possibility.

As far as the team shot, I might be mistaken, but I think it's just like a time lapse or something edited together? OP said "of me polishing." Looked like the same guy? Or OP has identical brothers? Or I'm just racist...

Either way, fantastic work man, the car looks phenomenal. I need to get mine detailed ASAP.

mepps

all I know is it looks good. nice work.