1993 Red Honda Civic - Extreme Makeover

[RCBuddha]

do you have to be an experienced detailer?

Mike,

Noob Question: Do you want experienced detailers to help on these projects, or is ok if a noob like me comes down to help?

I wish i saw this thread a little earlier, i would have loved to come down to irvine to try my hand at doing an "extreme makeover". Alas, work has me scheduled for tommorrow....

Craig

[Mike Phillips]

Re: do you have to be an experienced detailer?

Originally posted by RCBuddha
Mike,

Noob Question: Do you want experienced detailers to help on these projects, or is ok if a noob like me comes down to help?

I wish i saw this thread a little earlier, i would have loved to come down to irvine to try my hand at doing an "extreme makeover". Alas, work has me scheduled for tommorrow....

Craig

Hi Craig,

These extreme makeovers are "Open Invitation", that means we welcome people of all skill levels and experience.

I try to give more advanced warning beforehand, for this I apologize.

Mike

[Marc08EX]

Have fun today guys! I wish I could be there. If there any open invitation extreme makeover around the 15th of december because i'll be going to california then.

[GSRstilez]

This will bring more truth to The Process over The Products.

I'm excited to see the results

[Mike Phillips]

Here's a few pictures as we transform this beast into beauty!

Side by Side - Before & After - All done by hand


Engine Before


Mike

[HotRodGuy]

looks remarkable mike!

[Marc08EX]

Wow! Amazing results! Can't wait for the write-up!

[Mike Phillips]

Some parts of the car were extremely oxidized and as we found out later as we began to work on the car that parts of the car appear to have been re-painted as they were single-stage paint.



Here's a shot of the hood after we clayed one half of the hood with Quik Clay System, and then applied one, well worked-in application of ColorX .



Mike

[Mike Phillips]

Here's a couple of after shots until next week...





Engine Before


Engine After


Stay tuned for more...

Mike

[HotRodGuy]

wow

[Lochi]

Nice work!,

the after pic of the engine is very impressive, what dressing product did you use?

Greetings from Chile

Lochi

[Lt1Corvette]

Originally posted by Lochi
Nice work!,

the after pic of the engine is very impressive, what dressing product did you use?

Greetings from Chile

Lochi

I believe they used hyper-dressing on the engine bay. I am not sure what dilution though.

[Marc08EX]

Simply amazing! Can't wait to see the whole write-up.. So Mike, being a single stage paint, did you pull some paint off the car to the softbuff polishing pad you used? Great work team!

[Chris Nemlich]

Looks great! Nice work!

Can't wait to see all the pics.



Chris

[Lt1Corvette]

Originally posted by Bri
Simply amazing! Can't wait to see the whole write-up.. So Mike, being a single stage paint, did you pull some paint off the car to the softbuff polishing pad you used? Great work team!

Did we pull paint? We surely did. Only one of the panels was single stage the rest of the car had a clear coat. When Mike hit that panel after working the trunk the pad went from yellow to bright red! That was a surprise.