Site Sponsor Barney's offseason adventure Part 1: Remove, Repaint, Restore

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

I have been waiting to make a thread. I was hoping to have the rear bumper done and back on the car but I'm tired of waiting. I have posted some pictures in the ownership thread but since this is a bit specific and picture heavy, New Thread Alert. Plus, thanks to Mook I have my own section so it should be easy to find. Hold please, saving multiple spots....

The driver seat and rear seat back had some upholstery work done and while the seats were out, I cleaned the carpets. Separate video can be found in this section.

The bumpers were removed to be repainted. Spider cracks, rock chips and misc BS I was tired of looking at. It turns out that the rear bumper is being replaced.
Here is why I decided to have them repainted:

The driver quarter panel and rear bumper had paint work prior to my ownership, as seen here on the bottom lip of the rear bumper:

Once the bumpers were loaded in the truck, the first day of cleaning started:

I did not get any after pictures of the top bumper brace but it was cleaned and coated with CarPro DLUX

The underside parking flap and misc plastics were cleaned and coated with CarPro DLUX, 50/50 here:

This is the lower section of the all too forgotten " SUPER SUCK RAM AIR"

Cleaned and coated and in the background the parking flap fully coated:

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[Gav'sPurpleZ]

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Second Installment of cleaning includes all sorts of fun stuff including using a steamer.

Look what I found, WTF. I don't even want to know:

A combination of Purple Power diluted APC, Adam's car shampoo in a spray bottle, misc brushes, wheel woolies etc and the steamer:

I wound up removing the egg crate looking structure, clean:

Coated with CarPro CQuartz UK 3.0 ( the DLUX was used up and the other bottle was cloudy, so I opted not to use it )

Washed:

Hand polished with Menzerna FG400 compound

All painted sections were hand polished, Compound and Rupes Yellow top finishing polish, and here the coating is flashing:

This area will be revisited later in the thread. The air vent flaps were later dressed with Meg's hyper dressing:

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

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Before shots of the "CAMARO" panel. Notice some white spots that will require some touch up paint:

Front end cleaning begins, here the foam impact section is a 50/50. Just clean, no coating used on the foam:

APC, misc brushes, towels, steam cleaner etc. Painted sections were hand polished and coated with GTechniq EXO V4 ( just using old stock up ):

OCD kicked in even worse so I removed the upper air box and continued cleaning:

Cleaned and coated with Exo

Upper section of the SSRA

Painted sections of the fender, hand polished and coated:

Painted structure hand polished and coated + the inside section of the wheel well liner, cleaned and coated:

Headlight mounting bracket, cleaned and coated:

Passenger side of the under body splash shield area,

Passenger inside of the wheel well liner and the coolant reservoir bottle

a little better:

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

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Touch ups done, lightly sanded and previous dealer sticker removal scratches:

The CAMARO panel was polished with a Rupes Nano iBrid where applicable. Inside of the tail light pockets were hand polished.
1.25" lake country MF cutting pad and Menzerna FG 400
1.25" rupes yellow polishing pad and Sonax perfect finish
CarPro eraser
CQuartz UK 3.0 ( wanted to wait for GT CSL + EXO but did not want to leave it unprotected since it was off the car )

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

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a few pictures of the front bumper after it was reinstalled:

Since the shop did not want to wet sand and buff the bumper off the car, they left the badge off. I will install it after addressing any dirt nibs

The billet grill was powdercoated and will be reinstalled after the car is polished and coated. Hoping for the first week of May

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

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After I picked up the old bumper, it was obvious that the mounting bracket on the driver side was broken.

and more cleaning:

The tail lights were polished with a 3" MF cutting pad FG400 + a polishing pad and Rupes yellow top finishing polish
Coated lens and the back mounting areas with Exo V4

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

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Update for 4/14/21
Humpty Barney is back together. It was a PITA but back in business

 

[Mook]

Oh nice! This thread is updated. I meant to come back but you were in the process of reserving posts. Will check out later tonight.

 

[IceCreamAssassin]

daaaaaang!!

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Oh nice! This thread is updated. I meant to come back but you were in the process of reserving posts. Will check out later tonight.

Yep. I edited all posts and saved the updates all at once. The laptop does this odd thing where sometimes it will take a tab for the internet and separate it. I thought I lost the first few posts but thankfully not.
It may be a bit much for a mobile viewer but for those who are on a computer, check it out !

daaaaaang!!

Thanks Andy

 

[Bru]

I'm jealous. That looks amazing, Gav.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

I'm jealous. That looks amazing, Gav.

Thanks Joe

 

[Mook]

jesus christ man. this all looks amazing. this pic stands out the most for some reason

 

[Mook]

what pic do you wanna use for the thread cover? gonna share this tomorrow.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

There is “meticulous”, and then there is Gav’s level of meticulous, another order of magnitude.

 

[greasy]

Great work Gav! There is a certain level of enjoyment you get from knowing all of that shit nobody else sees is clean!

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

jesus christ man. this all looks amazing. this pic stands out the most for some reason

Thanks man, this picture does seem to capture the insanity.

what pic do you wanna use for the thread cover? gonna share this tomorrow.

The one above works for me. It represents what I was going for,

There is “meticulous”, and then there is Gav’s level of meticulous, another order of magnitude.

thank you ! I take it as a compliment. Some people at work did not know what to say. Even my parent were like WTF are you doing.

Great work Gav! There is a certain level of enjoyment you get from knowing all of that shit nobody else sees is clean!

Thanks Jim ! I agree, it feels good to know areas are clean. And I have the pictures to prove it

 

[Shawn1112]

There is “meticulous”, and then there is Gav’s level of meticulous, another order of magnitude.

Spot on! Awesome work Gav, that some next level shit!

 

[FESTER665]

There is “meticulous”, and then there is Gav’s level of meticulous, another order of magnitude.

100% spot on.

Wish I had half of his motivation as of late!

 

[blue-sun]

Can't wait to see the finished product and hopefully see it in person one day!

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Spot on! Awesome work Gav, that some next level shit!

100% spot on.

Wish I had half of his motivation as of late!

Can't wait to see the finished product and hopefully see it in person one day!

Thanks guys.
The rear bumper is ready for pick up today, so I will update "saved 6 " with a complete rear end post.

The goal is to polish and coat the first week of May ( the rear bumper will have to wait a couple more weeks. All depends on weather etc ).

 

[Boostie]

Pretty amazing work! I want to do similar on my cobra some day. Ill probably only do 1/4 of the detail work that you are tho hah

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Thank you. Once you start, you may find that you can't stop.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Updated with rear bumper install pics

 

[Boostie]

Thank you. Once you start, you may find that you can't stop.

What kind of steamer do you have? I have always wanted one for various cleaning but never pulled the trigger.