Subject	after 10 years of track abuse...
Posted by	vorpalZ on September 04, 2017 at 4:39 PM
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Message	Time to give Red Zed some love: Pulled it out of the garage from where I parked it after our drag night in June... put it away wet: Hard to see from the pic, but the paint is pretty badly swirled and oxidized. Haven't been cleaning & waxing like the other Zeds. Time to fix that. Again hard to see, but there is pretty bad swirl and hazy oxidation: Paint just looks dull and feels rough when you brush your hand along it: Paint polish time... start with 3M PerfectIt #1 cut and switch to #2 to get through the crap on the surface. Using Makita 9237C variable speed polisher & Feracla 6" compounding pads. two passes with cutting compound: Of course, every rock chip is now highlighted, spent about a half hour with the lacquer touch up pen. Finish with #3 polish with polishing foam pad, swirls are mostly gone and the paint feels smooth: Zeds are easy to power polish with all the rounded edges: Think we're aboot there: And how does it look in the sun? Still lots of rock chips and paint damage on the sills... not going to fix it with a polisher. Could do another pass but my arm's given out. Now I gotta go wax...
Follow Ups	after 10 years of track abuse... - vorpalZ 16:39:15 09/04/17 Muy bueno... (n/m) - RAGTPZ 17:43:52 09/04/17 Damn man! That looks fantastic! (n/m) - The Hawk 18:15:46 09/04/17 Nice job! Looks great. (n/m) - Boosted1 19:36:37 09/04/17 Outstanding! (n/m) - BlitZ91TT 20:28:33 09/04/17 Looks great Rob! (n/m) - Stanky (BC) 22:06:16 09/04/17 Looking good Meng! (n/m) - ConVerTT 22:33:29 09/04/17 Super clean - Polish 00:25:44 09/05/17 Do you make house calls? (n/m) - Dave N 03:39:28 09/05/17 Looks great! (n/m) - Musashi Sword 07:19:06 09/05/17 Sweet. I'll have to get your help to do it on my Zeds. (n/m) - MixManMash 07:45:30 09/05/17 Gorgeous (n/m) - JerseyTex 09:09:37 09/05/17 getting a brazilian? (n/m) - LJZTT 14:38:55 09/05/17 nah, just a moustache wax (n/m) - vorpalZ 23:11:33 09/05/17 such prudes, you canucks (n/m) - LJZTT 12:51:11 09/06/17 Well done Rob... 2 questions: - Zbullet 15:19:07 09/05/17 answers: - vorpalZ 18:10:57 09/05/17 Lucky guy. That work shop is slightly better equipped - Zbullet 21:31:53 09/05/17 Well done, my fellow Canuck. (n/m) - Aqualung 11:43:39 09/07/17 Sealant last much longer than wax. - StramanVerTT(GA) 16:37:37 09/07/17 Absolutely agreed... - vorpalZ 18:08:07 09/07/17 Liar! - ConVerTT 18:36:47 09/07/17
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