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Just a little road trip down to Montgomery, AL for these two horses.

Both cars where paint only details.

First up is a 1987 Black Ferrari 328 GTS single stage original paint.

Client was kind enough to have the car washed for me and elected just to have a one-step polishing done.

Before pics:









Process:

Z6 wipedown
Zaino clay w/ Z6 as a lube.

White LC classic flat pad/M205/PCXP6 via KBM

This process was working great. I was amazed at the amount of defects that where bring removed. This is the rear deck area after the one-step polishing:



But unfortunately I only had 5 white pads with me. The single stage paint was clogging up the pores of the pads at a very fast rate. I tried to brush them off, but I could not maintain a good level of cut. So I started washing the white pads with APC and warm water in the sink. This is my usual method of washing pads during the KBM. I spin them out with a rotary.

I set up my air movers to dry the white pads. When using the KBM is very important that you use pads that are very close to 100% dry. If not the water in the pad will cause the non diminishing abrasives to clump together which will cause excessive micro marring.

An hour later I went to use one of the white pads that should of been dry by now. The white pads are made from a higher blend of non-reticulated or closed cell foams which does not lead to fast drying times. The white pad was not dry enough. So I had to go another route.

I have plenty of classic orange flat LC pads, so I used the following:

Orange/M205/PCXP6 via KBM

This left some surface marring so I followed with:

Black/M205/PCXP6 via KBM

So much for the one step polishing.....

The nice thing about M205 is the minimal amount of dust vs M105 on some paints.

I still did a QEW wash follwed by a Z6 wipedown to prep the surface the best I could for the Z5pro.

Applied 2x of ZFX'd Z5pro, followed by Z8.

After pics:

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1972 365GTC/4

Repainted with a clearcoat.

Paint only detail, 2 step polishing with a minimum 85% defect removal.

QEW to remove the dust.
Clay
M105/Orange LC flat/PC6 via KBM
M205/Black LC flat/PC6 via KBM
IPA wipdown
Z6 wipedown
Z5pro x2
Z8

Before: