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Oakes Detailed: Nissan GT-R Revival *** Pic Heavy *** Well, I had four GT-R's come through in the last week, and they've all needed quite a bit of paint work. As much as I'd love to make 4 seperate threads for each vehicle, I'm going to make one thread on the GT-R that needed my love the most. Don't worry, I'll provide a pic of them all together, Red one not shown :) http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...il/shop013.jpg This 2009 model came through needing a full restoration, as it was showing the previous owners maintenance tactics of the automated car wash in it's straight black paint. The new owner clearly enjoys the vehicle and drives it often, as you can see in it's before condition, which I can't blame him for doing! Without further aideu, here is the write up, starting with photos of the vehicles condition when it arrived: http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...n%20GT-R/1.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...n%20GT-R/2.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...n%20GT-R/4.jpg First up was the wheels, Before snaps: 5. http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...n%20GT-R/5.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...n%20GT-R/7.jpg The IronX breaking down all the metal contaminents on the wheel surfaces after being cleaned: http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...n%20GT-R/8.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...n%20GT-R/9.jpg Here they are after being cleaned, IronX'd and sealed: http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/10.jpg 10. http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/11.jpg After that was the exhaust tips, which were nothing short of a night and day difference. http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/12.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/13.jpg cleaned/degreased, Metal soap, Optimum metal polish and CG Metal wax later... http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/14.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/15.jpg The vehicle also had an unfortunate dent on its driver side rear quarter panel, which was pulled to perfection as you can see here... 15. http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/16.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/17.jpg The vehicle was fully prepped and prepared for the correction work after the above "small" jobs were completed. The paint condition was nothing short of desperate, as you will see in the photos below of the condition before and after the prep process. Nothing but swirling, marring and various other defects. http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/18.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/30.jpg 20. http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/23.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/25.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/26.jpg I then took various paint readings throughout the vehicle, which all proved to be very consistent in the mid 100 micron range... http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/27.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/29.jpg With all of the readings and prep taken care of, the car was masked and the correction was commenced, after out test panels we decided that it was going to take a bit of work with Megs 105/PFW on the rotary - up to 3 passes in some instances! The progress of the work can be seen here in the 50/50 photos of the paint: 25. http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/34.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/32.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/35.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/36.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/37.jpg After approximately 14 hours of paint work alone, this was the finished product of the Nissan Black... 30. http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/38.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/40.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/43.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/44.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20GT-R/46.jpg |
Great job.... now where is that group pic???? |
Group pic is at the top! I have a few others if you want to see more of them :) Thank you! |
I meant all four ;) |
Ah I see haha, the Red one left the day before the other three got here. They've all gone back to their respective or new homes since. Here's a snap of the red one when it was finished though! http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...sdetail/24.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...ail/GTR030.jpg And some more of the other three http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...il/shop025.jpg http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...detail/277.jpg |
Remarkable 50/50's. Obvoiusly the new owner has saved the car from the last one. If you are going to treat a car like a Maxima, buy a Maxima. AWESOME job. |
Thank you sir! |
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