Bought my honey an E30.

[SchnellerVert]

Man, love the moss growing on it. haha. Great fixer up project you have there and the price was fantastic. 3 months it will be the envy of many, and oh such nice paint once it's sealed.

[CleanAzzE30z]

Matt, you see the paint on both my cars in person. Would I lead you in the wrong direction?? I have all this stuff along with a random orbit buffer. For a beer fee Id be happy to show you.

Mariano

[backtrail69]

Yea, Usually you want to wash the car (duh), claybar, machine polish, some sort of hand polish and then a hand wax/sealer. I have had really good luck with 3m Rubbing compounds, meguires clay and griots best of show wax.

[CleanAzzE30z]

3M rubbing compound, Matt. Then the show polish, then the wax. But first the clay bar. The one time I used Zymol, I didnt like it at all. I have tons of the shit but am not going to use it.

Mariano

[Digitalwave]

I was about to ask this aswell. Today I helped my buddy clay bar his car and wax it and it made a difference indeed but not as amazing as I expected it to be. We used Mothers CA Gold clay bar kit and Zynol wax.

Wax won't "cut" paint like that, you need varying degrees of polishing/cutting compounds. You start with a high cut compound and work your way down to a finishing compound, then you wax/and or seal the car.

[smooth]

One word: wow.

Makes me want to go detail my car, mine's not red, but I hear the royalblue turns out pretty good with a detail.

Is this true?
When I detailed my royalblau vert it turned out nice for a bit.
But I don't know how much one can do with it because royalblau is two-stage.

[sumyungguy]

What product(s) did your buddy use ?

+1

[MR 325]

What product(s) did your buddy use ?

I was about to ask this aswell. Today I helped my buddy clay bar his car and wax it and it made a difference indeed but not as amazing as I expected it to be. We used Mothers CA Gold clay bar kit and Zynol wax.

[Jean]

What product(s) did your buddy use ? I want to try and buff some scratches out of my paint, tried doing it by hand but only the lighter ones came out....

[StereoInstaller1]

Quick update...but no pics, yet.

I am almost done repainting the trim. It looks great so far. Buffing is basically complete, so it shines all over. When done, it gets a full detail.

I fucked around with the motor a bit last night. Whacked the starter with a hammer...voila, it started!

Seems to run pretty damn good too. Nasty milkshake in the oil, no coolant at all though. I added water, just to see what is going on in there.

I am gonna drain the thing, add fresh oil, do a thorough compression test, possibly a leakdown test too. Maybe this motor is salvageable?

It has WAY less clatter than mine...valves sound great! Injectors are sure noisy. Time to find a set of 14.5lb 4 pintle to make it quieter.

Good news!

Luke

[Digitalwave]

The beauty of single-stage paint.

[euroshark]

Damn, thats a transformation for sure.

My blue paint did the same thing. It was so oxidized that it was basically a purple-ish grey and completely flat.

[StereoInstaller1]

One word: wow.

Makes me want to go detail my car, mine's not red, but I hear the royalblue turns out pretty good with a detail.

Thanks again for all the kind words, guys. I will be sure to pass that on to Joe.

The pic really does not do justice to the difference. It won't be done in buffing 'till saturday. I hope to have all the trim painted by then, so we can reassemble sunday.

I just wish I has a set of M3 springs to put on it...so she wouldn't notice that I "lowered" it.

"Honey, I think the suspension is lowering itself!"

She wants it stock. Dammit!

Luke

[B0ND]

One word: wow.

Makes me want to go detail my car, mine's not red, but I hear the royalblue turns out pretty good with a detail.

[Graham325]

Wow, wild. I'm in a Zinno 325e/4/5, and there was another elderly couple in a Zinno E30 'vert. I remember waving to the 'vert couple, not sure if I ever waved to the chick in the E30. I can't really remember the driver, but that's really wild. Small world.

Oh, Hi Walter