dsms detail - Major Black Porsche Turbo Overhaul!

2003 Porsche 996 Turbo came down from Canada for a full correction. Overall this was one of the most extensive corrections I have done.

Initial condition, filthy as expected... a 650 mile road trip has its downside









Car has Bilstein PSS9 coilovers, Fikse wheels and PCCB's (gen 1)







Prep consisted of a thorough pressure wash of the entire exterior followed by foaming with a citrus soap.

After a few minutes the foam



Wheels were cleaned using only soap and water, no wheel cleaners should ever be used on carbon ceramic brakes... not that you really need to as they dont generate very much break dust



Before moving onto a 2 bucket wash I sprayed the car down with Opt. powerclean to loosen up whatever surface grime was left. While this sat I agitated all the trim pieces, crevices and badges



Also treated the front bumper with surf city road grim destroyer to breakdown all the big splatter



Car was washed and then clayed. Before taping it up I gave it a thorough IPA wipedown.

Onto correction...















Cleaning up the compounding haze



Difference in clarity



















Before



After



Before



After (when the car was finished)








Close up after compounding







After



50/50 on the roof



Top corrected, bottom untouched









After







Tails before



After



After careful jeweling, zero haze left behind viewed under the TK40 Fenix (630 lumens compared to 240 in the TK10/11 I used to use)





Finish after all correction steps, zero LSP





Interior was in decent shape, leather was cleaned and conditioned. All trim pieces cleaned and protected with 303, carpets protected with 303 fabric guard



After





Fikse wheels unfortunately had sever etching on the lips and inner barrels, nothing could be done without causing further damage but they cleaned up moderately well



50/50



After



Dressed the trim with my patented application system also known as a foam stick :gidiup:



Finished product...







The clouds wouldnt break for some sun bursts unfortunately











Back inside for a second coat of powerlock and finishing touches







Hood reflection



I love this shot





Owner came by taxi to collect his car at 6pm...

Here is how she looked just before taking the trek back to Canada, yes some may say its ridiculous to drive the car home after a detail but in reality it will only get dirty. The 7 years of abuse and defects which accumulated arent coming back anytime soon, especially not after 1 road trip.





After 31hrs and 2 very late nights (or very early mornings you could say) the car was looking as it should. The owner drove to DetailersDomain imediately after to pick up a ton of stuff to maintain the car including grit guard buckets, gentle shampoo, mitts, tire dressing etc. Makes me happy to see someone go home with a perfect car and get all the essential things to keep it looking that way.

This was a long one and I thank you for letting me share. I think you will enjoy the next one as well, its black as well but it is not a Porsche :thumb:

I will leave you with a video walkaround...

YouTube - Street Dreams Detail - Porsche Turbo Revival

 

Absolutely amazing work! That Porsche was trashed. What kind of trim dressing did you use with that foam brush?

 

Phenomenal work bringing this beauty back to life again, stunning work!

PS: the "outside afters" look really over processed, perhaps a little less saturation and it'll look a million times better!

 

Wow. Yeah that Porsche was hammered. Pretty neat that the owner drove over 600 miles to have you take care of it.

Black looks so clean after it's corrected or even polished but man to perfect it . . . . . what a paint. You got it down to a science. Crazy to also see what a huge difference there is between point and shoot cameras vs DSLR's.

Nice pics and work as usual! Oh . . . . last thing. You finishing down with a Rotary or DA?

 

wow that's what I would call black!!! Amazing work bud!

 

i would more so say the wheels are over exposed rather then it being over saturated. It's hard to have every single thing in a photo perfect. If the rims are properly exposed that will most likely mean the rest of the vehicle would be under exposed . . . . . but under exposed is generally better then over exposed as you can fix under exposed but you lose detail in over exposed photo's

 

Incredible work dude. That paint was beaten to hell.

 

How do I fix that? Those were the shots straight from my Nikon. I only changed the ISO and WB for the outside shots, no post processing was done.

 

Your work is truly remarkable Dave. One of your best corrections to date. Keep up the outstanding work man!!

 

Stunning work David. What were the camera settings ? I love the look of the outside pics. The refection shot of the hood was crazy.

 

nice job your details seem to get better and better with each one. 2 questions for you if i may why shouldnt someone use a wheel cleaner on a car with ceramic brakes and where do you get your foam sticks they look cool id like to get some?

 

That thing was HAMMERED! Nice job bringing that back to life Dave! :mounty:

 

What programs do you have as far as post processing goes. Not sure what mode you shoot in on your D60 but there are a few ways to adjust that.

I would leave your iso set to 100 unless you really really need to bump it up, play with the shutter speed as well as your aperture. It is better to have a slightly under exposed photo then over. You can make some adjustments in photoshop or Nikons Capture NX2

you should be able to get those sticks at any paint store. Lowes, Home Depot, Ace etc . . .

 

Great job Dave :mounty:

 

nice work!
IMO i would of taped off the entire front end of the car with painters tape, temp bra for the trip.

 

Nice work, Dave. That's a nice car, too bad it's rocking such ugly wheels.

 

saw this car in person and let me tell you guys it looked dripping wet, great job again Dave :thumb:

 

amazing work, Dave! Question, did this Porsche have sticky paint?

 

Dave, so i looked over your settings from your camera and for example:



Here is your Data from that Photo:

# Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) 1/160 second ===> Try a slightly quicker shutter speed maybe 3 - 4 steps up.
# Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 63/10 ===> ƒ/6.3
# ISO Speed Ratings = 200 Change ISO to 100 . . . . . by having it at 200 it's making the camera that much more sensitive to the light thus in return making your images that much more over exposed.
# Metering Mode = pattern / multi-segment (5)
# Light Source / White Balance = fine weather (9) same return to auto if possible
# Flash = Flash did not fire
# Focal Length = 220/10 mm ===> 22 mm


# White Balance = manual (1) I never messed with my white balance settings personally but try the preset or auto if there is one.
# Contrast = hard (2) change back to 0 or factory setting
# Saturation = high (2)
# Sharpness = hard (2)

I hope that helps you Dave. Feel free to pm me with any questions and if i can help further i will.

 

SICK results!