This light, overpowered roadster came to us in DESPERATE need for a correction. Weighing in at 2900 lbs with driver and 3/4 tank of gas, it's needless to say this car is a blast. With that said, it needed to look just as good as it's time slips will be, which are yet to be obtained. So hopefully my foot isn't in my mouth for this one! This turbo monster was showing it's age and use in the paint, and definitely needed to be revived to show that deep pearl yellow paint. The Carbon fiber hood also needed to be brought back to life, for the time being until it is painted to match. I will let the pictures and process do the rest of the talking here! Products used: Meguiars M105 Meguiars M205 Menzerna SIP IPA 30% Sonus green clay Ironx CG wheel cleaner CG citrus wash Autoglym HD wax Optibond(tire dressing) Poorboys bold and bright (tire dressing) 303 convertible top cleaner Poorboys natural look Sprayway window cleaner Process: Car was rinsed and sprayed with zep solution, rinsed couple minutes later and washed, then clayed, rinsed again, sprayed with ironx and rinsed again couple minutes later. Ironx removed metal that was under surface that clay was not able to remove. Car was washed again and dried. Wheels were cleaned. After inspecting paint and seeing the damage that was there we got ok to do one-step polish on it. Hood was buffed before what looks like with rotary and wool pad which left a lot of buffer trails. Test panel was done with menz SIP and it removed all defects. Tried same combo on paint and there was a lot of scratches left. Did pass with M105 and it removed 80% of scratches. After finishing pass with M205 surface looked very wet and paint got its depth back being metallic yellow color. Since it was only supposed to be one step, car received quick pass with M105 and PFW pad which removed about 80% of scratches. Some areas were polished to about 95% scratch free (trunk especially). Fenders were damaged more and did extra pass with M105 (car was partially repainted). After quick compounding car was polished with M205, wiped down with IPA and waxed with Autoglym HD wax. After removing wax car had very deep wet look to it and was very sleek to touch. Tires were dressed, windows cleaned and interior vacuumed and wiped down with PB natural look. Car looks a lot better then it did before. Onto the pics Before 50/50 After Finished pictures
That looks great after your polishing! And what a beast it is, wonder if they are planning a brake upgrade to go with all the extra ponies?
yeah brakes are first think i noticed that need to be addressed. i got 4 piston brakes for mine that im sure he could use it for his car as well, car is a beast, drove it back to owner and boost was lowered to 15psi at the time but still was making 415whp. i did couple 6 gear pulls and it got to speed pretty fast. in my defense. customer is friend of ours and told us to try the car but only on straits because its useless in first 3 gears and it was pretty cold so tires would not grip good anyway
my neighbor has the same yellow S2000, when i walk my dog it makes me cringe seeing it in similar conditon
did you made offer to do this for him? i can find out from s2ki if he is on there and maybe you can do it for him or something
I have one 2002 Suzuka Blue Ive had 2005 turbo scion tc making over 300 to the wheels. 2005 Audi s4. The 4.3 V8 2002 Honda S2000 And this is the most fun car Ive driven so far. Im gonna do correction in spring. I have 4 layers of 845 on it right now.
I really like the 50/50's and car has a nice gloss to it now. If I can ask what was your Zep spray and wash solution? Tires have a nice sheen to them. What do think of Optibond?
zep 14:1 delution spray. optibond by itself i dont really like, i mix it with poorboys bold and bright or white pearl
I have a 2008 tripple black. I bought the car from a guy who didn't take great car of the paint and have similar scratches and swirl marks on her... This spring when our winter breaks i'm going to do the same type of job. Mish are you sure the yellow paint is Metallic? I saw a couple of them fly by me and the paint looked non metallic to me.. Just curious.. Good Job on the 2000... Howard
Nice job Mish. Ive seen that car on the road before. That is some serious HP to be packing in that think. Great job on the yellow. Did it make it back to the owner clean?? West Chester roads are covered in salt!!!
yes i was surprised it was pearl(Spa/Indy Yellow Pearl) i think they were 285 but not sure. wheels were bought when car had 350whp
yeah it made it back to owner clean. car is from georgia thought but it was up in pa for id say since summer
