27 Hour Correctional Detail- Acura NSX type R replica

[premiershine9]

Hello there MM,

Over the last three days (27 hours total) I have had the opportunity to work on a 91 Acura NSX that has been converted and modified over many years into a Type R replica. The level of detail that went into the conversion is amazing. The car features a larger single turbo (T67) running low boost- 505 horses on the dyno.
The owner has been a great client to work with and since last fall him and I have been discussing the process I would take to carry out the detail.
The detail took 27 hours to complete over three days and him and I still have plans in the future (Swissvax application) including an extremely thorough and regular maintenance schedule.

On with the detail- prepare for major scroll guys

Products/ tools used:

Products:
CG Maxi Sudz 2
CG Citrus Wash and Clear
Dawn Concentrate
Sonax FE wheel cleaner
Bleche White sidewall cleaner
Megs APC
Carpro Iron X
Uber Fine Clay
Leather Masters Suede/ Alcantara foam cleaner
DI Aggressive Clay
ONR
Tarminator
P21s Polishing Soap
Eagle One Nevr Dull wadding
Sonax Glass Cleaner
Zaino Z12 Glass polish
303 Aerospace Protectant
Adams VRT dressing
Folex Spot treatment
Megs 105
Menzerna Power Finish
Menzerna Super Finish
Menzerna 85rd
IPA 30%
Menzerna Powerlock
CG JetSeal 109

Tools:
3 Wool wash mitts
SV brushes- wheel, Pneu
Uber Spoke wheel brush
0000 steel whool
Ridgid shopvac
PC air compressor
3000 grit paper
Megs sanding block
Flex DA
PC DA
Various backing plates
Surbuf R series MF pads
Uber Green foam
Uber Orange foam
Uber yellow foam
Lake Country White foam
LC 3 in. yellow foam
LC 3 in. orange foam

Total time- 27 hours over 3 days

Wheels before:



Headlight defects:




Before: Under front hood and bay:



The underside of the carbon fiber hood had some nice oxidization and defects...more on that later



Visible Paint defects- swirling etc. viewable in sun






EXTREMELY soft pillars before:




Same soft paint found on roof, and spolier:








Motor before:



Exhaust system before: More on that later




First up- motor cleaning
ONR with a designated SV wheel brush used here



Blown dry with the leaf blower as well as the air compressor


Front end bay washed with ONR and Megs APC



Sonax FE on the wheels





The body was then pre-rinsed with ONR, left to dwell and then an application of Iron X was sprayed on around the entire exterior








LSP still present- owner uses Zaino very often



To strip- Dawn and CG Citrus wash and clear


Two bucket method then carried out 3 times to clear as much LSP as possible



There was considerable overspray on the door jambs that the owner had concerns about- Aggressive clay used here



The car was then clayed with Uber fine clay using ONR as a lube and then re washed for the 3rd time- pulled inside to dry

First thing to tackle- the water spotted and sad looking exhaust system



After an hour and P21s soap:









HELLO TURBO!



Paint correction time- 1st and 2nd day- 20 hours total

****Spotting paint defects was easy to do by eye however my Nikon SLR had trouble- Apologies for no before and after paint correction pics******* the pearl white paint was tricky!

Random sanding marks present


The process:

- add Surbuff R series pad to 105 as well

The finish was compounded with Megs 105 and a yellow cutting pad or a Surbuff Pad via my Porter Cable. Finished down with Menzerna Power finish on an orange pad, finished down even more with Menzerna Super Finish (106fa) on a green pad and finally jeweled out with Menzerna 85rd- IPA wipedowns performed in-between each step of course.

Coming along well



Surbuff R series pads used on rear decklid as well as areas where sanding marks were present


Spolier before:


After:




Driver side of spoiler:

After:



Spoiler coming along well:


Thought this was a cool shot


Tailights before:



After:




Rear bumper dialed in


Correction coming along well


The owners personal mechanic stopped by late that night to remove the wheels and put the car up on stands so that I could access the wheels more in depth and the wheel wells and coils too.



Iron X doing its thing on the barrels




After letting dwell and agitated after 10 minutes, the wheels were rinsed and brought inside


Multiple tar spots in barrel






The tar spots were heated with a heat gun one at a time and treated with Tarminator- here is a shot of the tar melting

Plastic razor blade used to pick and remove tar spots:


After the barrels were dried I then clayed the barrels with my designated wheel clay


Wheels dried and dialed in


Jetseal 109 applied to wheels- barrel and face




With the wheels off I could then focus on degreasing the Coils and various pieces in the wells:


Before

After



Pillar Correction


Mirror before





Mirror after:


The CF engine cover was swirled and was pretty dull- there were also too spots where some sort of scuffing/oxidation existed
- one pass with Menzerna Power finish on a 3 inch yellow pad made quick work of the defects
Before:

After:


Notice line up by window showing before and after polishing:


Near the end of Day two and after 20 hours of paint correction I focused more on getting the door jambs which containted a significiant amount of paint overspray dialed in.

Wetsanded with 3000 grit here, followed up by hand polishing and PC polishing with a yellow pad- Megs 105




Paper sitting in bucket full of warm water for 15 min.





After:




The Recaro buckets had suede inserts- these were removed- blown with compressed air and vacuumed with a brush attachment.
Leather Masters suede/alcantara cleaner used here with a damp MF towel- left to dry overnight.




Owner had requested the sticker from the window tint to be removed

Heated on low heat with heat gun

MF towel dampened with 3M adhesive remover left over sticker for 5 minutes removed and plastic razor blade used to tremove sticker



Zaino Z12 clear view glass polish applied via Flex DA and a Uber orange foam pad


Wheels wiped down after sealant hazed and waiting to be put back on the beast


Brand new Black pad to apply sealant used on this one:


Mechanic came back over at end of night 2 to put wheels back on

In garage at end of night 2 letting Menzerna Powerlock to sit overnight:





Day 3- wrapping up

last bit of polishing to focus on was under front hood (remember hazed and scuffed CF before pics in beginning?)

Before:



During Polishing- notice left/ right split




Right section after:




Top portion after


Left and right done


303 protectant applied to all trim/ weatherstripping:
before:

50/50







Glass was cleaned inside and out with Sonax Glass cleaner, tires dressed with adams VRT dressing, interior vacuumed, mats shampooed and extracted and a quick Megs APC wipedown in interior.

Trunk mat had loose strings around logo- not good.





AND NOW THE AFTERS:






















































































Thanks for looking!
- Dan K

[SlimKlim]

I love you so fucking much.

[.RJ]

[JPolen01]

Wow. Just spent 15 minutes scrolling through this. The car looks amazing. I don't think I have ever seen barrels so clean before! Melting the tar off was awesome; I didn't even know that could be done. Great work as always!

[premiershine9]

Wow. Just spent 15 minutes scrolling through this. The car looks amazing. I don't think I have ever seen barrels so clean before! Melting the tar off was awesome; I didn't even know that could be done. Great work as always!

Stoners Tarminator is some nasty shit- works great tho

[Goodspeed]

Amazing - best one yet. You truly are a master of your craft :thumbup:

[caa337]

Amazing work!

[premiershine9]

Thanks guys!

[D_Eclipse9916]

Wow...good work.

[ScottyB]

your attention to detail is phenomenal

[RPWIII]

Truly amazing Dan! What a sick car too.

[kcook]

nsx-r on azenis...

Amazing work as always Dan. PMing you.

[D_Eclipse9916]

nsx-r on azenis...

Amazing work as always Dan. PMing you.

If your thinking of having him come up let me know. I need the race ka cleaned up a bit.

[premiershine9]

working with him now to take off a friday from skool and squeeze his subi in on my schedule- crazy booked every weekend right now! If i'm up there and I can squeeze it in i'd love to work on the e36 DJ!

[D_Eclipse9916]

working with him now to take off a friday from skool and squeeze his subi in on my schedule- crazy booked every weekend right now! If i'm up there and I can squeeze it in i'd love to work on the e36 DJ!

Please let me know, your probably going to cringe/scream/hide when you see the state of the paint after racing. :lol:

PS- Im in no hurry unless something happens and I can make it to the MM car show :thumbup:

[.RJ]

nsx-r on azenis...

Amazing work as always Dan. PMing you.

If your thinking of having him come up let me know. I need the race ka cleaned up a bit.

I'd like to have Dan do the detail on my Ridgeline too, I live pretty close to DJ.

[HAULN-SS]

I had some dibs on my truck too, just waiting on a date

[premiershine9]

I had some dibs on my truck too, just waiting on a date

Haven't forgotten! As of now I am only working on the weekends- meaning 1 car a week (since everyone wants correctional work) I have been booked up since the fall and of course school comes first for me- not here in VA to detail for 32k a year haha. Trying my best guys!

[Goodspeed]

Going back to the NSX, did you by chance get to ride in it? A turbo NSX is up there on the "want to experience" list for me.

[premiershine9]

just got to drive it up and down the block- nothing more than 2nd gear, ride was stiff and planted LOL car ran really well- I will be traveling with the owner to advertise this summer at the Cars and Coffee events to try and land more exotic clients- let you know soon! aka 40-150 vids coming soon