Today I took a clay bar, Meguiar's Cleaner Wax (step 1), Polish (step2). Took about 4hrs. Tomorrow, I'm going to put step 3 on the Carnuba Wax.

Before anything....

 

After clay, step 1 and 2.

 

LOOKS!! damn good!!

 

Another hood shot.

 

side shot

 

in a tree shot, I feel like Roshambo

 

Turned out a little dark, under the car covers, there's a '02 Lightning and Saleen Mustang, if he ever uncovers them I'll get a shot.

 

Wow that looks great mark!


Man you got your shirt off! If I did that here my nipples would fall off!!


Im still waiting for a warm day over my spring break to wax my car and put my new center caps on! Can't put my car on the road till May 18th though


How much did all those products run ya?



Pssst....Whats a claybar?

 

damn man ! that looks like a ZAINO car , if you would have said its zaino I would have belived ya .I love red irocs ! thats my dream car !

 

Alright, Mark, I'm very jealous. Your before shots look 10x better than my car after I wash and wax. Oh, yeah, your after shots are awesome too!

 

The Meguiar's products cost $5 each, the clay bar cost me $13 (it included Mother's Showtime Polish as the lubricant.) A clay bar removes all the pollutants that your paint collects from everyday driving, and will smooth out the paint. I'll take some more pics tomorrow after I put the step 3 carnuba wax on.

Oh, and to the person who said about the before shot looking good, for some reason my hood has the best paint on the whole car so other spots look worse.

 

Another comparison shot, the hatch and bumper are probably the worst painted spots on my car.

 

^ wow! That wax covers it up nicely!

 

Nice work man, cant wait till I have the spare money for new paint. But first things first and thats the engine.

 

where in MD are you? I am in Owings Mills.

 

Looks real good man. I wish we would have some steady good weather here. 3 weeks ago, I had the t-tops off. Then 3 days later, we got snow. Then 4 days after that or so, it melted, and we had 50's and 60's. Then bitter 10-20's. Today it was like 52, and the next 3 days its supposed to snow. Its nuts. Hopefully I will be Zainoing my car over spring break, or at least using some 3M stuff to try and get the swirls out.

 

Hah! You call THAT a pot belly?

Man, you got a long way to go to catch mine :sillylol:

 

I live in Calvert County and go to Frostburg State Un. Home for spring break right now.

I know what you mean by the weather, last Friday I came home, when we left FSU it was 70*, when we got back Sunday night, there was ice all over the cars.

 

Mark A.,

Sorry about the off-topic question: What's the diameter of your exhaust tips?

By the way, your ride looks sweet.

JamesC

 

Lookin GREAT man. I've got an off subject question too, what size tires are you running right now? The stock 245, or is it 255 or something?

 

The tips are 3"
The front tires are 225, and the back are 235, I want to get some 265s for the back.

 

Thought I'd put this TTT, just to give people a testimonial on Meguiar's Products.

 

Looks good.......

Always like the quad tips.....

 

thats what my iroc looked like before someone pulled out in front of me now i stopped cleaning it. the kid that owned it before me waxed it every week so the paint was pretty nice. sweet car brings back memories. do u get pulled over alot? i think i got pulled over once a week in mine. nice car

 

I've only been pulled over like 2 times in it. Never a ticket though.

 

i probaly got pulled over 20 times since oct in it and i wrecked it in july. they r trying to nail me for raceing so that sucks i only got like 3 tickets in it

 

Hey Mark, since you always advertise the hooker exhaust, do you know if it comes for a dual cat car??? And how does it sound at different rpm's, you know like on the highway and stuff, is it loud. I'm thinking about a flowmaster but the're for rustangs, i want something different.

Later

Dave

 

You know, I've had several ask that, and I'm not sure, though I thought someone said they got one for dual cats.

 

how about the sound like he said above. i just got my car, and i want to get a good sounding exhaust, i really like yours. on topic: ill have to wax my car tomorrow

 

Love the car, the cat-back will sound good I think , better with headers though.

 

Hey that waxing made a big difference for u Mark. I use that Meguairs 3-step process too. I thought step 1 took care of cleaning and smoothing out the car, why do u need the clay bar, is it that much better with it?

Oh and last week i waxed my car also, and went even further and put 2 coats of wax on it this time. Hey when i get a chance this week maybe i put another coat on to top it off before i store for the winter coming up.

 

Damn! That **** turned out nice!

PS - Nice *****!

 

Buy a hooker catback for tha GTA! It'll look like this!:hail:

 

The clay bar, gets certain layers of contaminants while the cleaner step 1 gets another, forget which is which though.

 

How the hell is this post still going after 6 months?

Nice car.....did you ever put those 65's out back?

 

i did the 123 thing a while back, and i loved it, but it was a pain in the butt, i did two coats of 1, about 3 on the hood, two coats of 2 with 4 coats on the hood, and 2 coats of 3 with 4 on the hood, and it came out great, took me two days to do that, had the neighbors comeing over to me telling me i am crazy. took me total about 8 hrs.
biker
i want to do it again soon, but this time only one coat of each (double the hood)
biker

 

That's all it's been, geez seems longer.

I brought it back, was searchin some of my old posts.

 

you know i remember you telling me before your goal was 10000 posts buy christmas.......
....can't pace yourself huh?
lol

 

No, I said my goal was 12k by Xmas, then I was thinkin maybe 15k , but that might be pushin it.

 

looking great Mark!!

 

another note, polishing often is ok, but only add wax twice or three times a year, wax has some abrasives and will dull paint, where as polish is not to have abrasives and only polishs the waxy finish and does not affect the paint. even with the new clear coat waxes u can wax your paint right off, over time of course

 

I just bought that stuff the other day. Gonna wax my ride up here when it gets a little warmer out.

 

Mark...your a hottie


Love Pork

 

sicko, if you come to my meet, you're not sleepin near me.

 

So that means no spoonin' huh? DAMN

 

prolly not. sorry.

 

I did their 3 step and even added a 4th step being the gold class wax. It took me 7 hours start to finish.
It looked great. Just about every single imperfection was gone. BUT it didn't last long. I drove my car just under 1000 miles this year and never in inclement weather. I california car dusted it twice a week and yet the finish is not like it was after the 7 hour job. I've had to wax it 3 more times since then just to keep it looking great.
The paint on my car is in excellent shape but those damn little surface scratches keep coming back.
So far the Meguiars 3 step is the best I've used but I have yet to test f113 and zaino.
Duragloss sucked. It was no different than any other off the shelf wax that you could get at Wal-Mart.

Anywho, that's my opinion of the 3 step. I'd post pics of mine but pics don't really show everything. Sure it looks good but you don't get the angled looks that you get by standing next to the car.

Your car DOES look good Mark.