Zman12

What holds up under the hood. Say on my polished whipple.

Thanks for all the advice, I also read something about SOS pad on white letters wasn't sure if I could use on white walls too.

I will be cleaning up my dads 62 vette on fathers day and I know the white walls are pretty dirty looking? What's best to use?

I wish I had the money to have both the flex and pc right now, if this was my career than I would. But I can't see having two machines just to maintain a couple of cars. But I am determined to get my car as close to perfect as possible.

I am in the same boat, I dropped some cash too and if someone would have just said " hey you have a black car you need the flex" than I would have just bit the bullet and went that route. I don't mind spending the time, but if I go to the garage again to correct the car and tell my wife that it may take a 100 plus hours for perfection than I may not be married anymore. Heck, I have almost thought about just painting my whole car synergy green because that may be quicker and cheaper to maintain in the long run!

Great looking ride! Never had a notch back still see myself getting one someday!

After just reading this post from Adam himself. I think I would like to exchange the PC for the flex. I wish I had seen this post before I purchased the PC. I think this fits what I am dealing with correctly. "Adrian, good memory, and YES, I would start with the Flex, especially if you have a dark vehicle, or plan to detail more than one vehicle twice/ year. The Flex is not going to cause damage, and getting comfortable with the machine on a learner vehicle is advisable with either machine. (Rental car, mini-van, old cruddy vehicle, etc.) The PC simply will not make dark paint perfect, and the Flex will, with less vibration. I suggest the PC on silver, white, or light colored vehicles, and ones that are rarely polished. The Flex brings the finish to perfect quickly, easily, and doesn't vibrate! So, my advice: If you are a perfectionist, and want a perfect finish on a dark vehicle, skip the PC, and roll with the Flex"

I agree I need practice but I feel I have watched the videos a lot and am trying to do my best to follow instructions. I do think I gave up on my test patch a little quick. However once I saw how many hours it was going to take I wanted to get started and at least get the car back to where I could take it to a show and drive again. I think the car looks a lot better just not perfect, my family would say I am crazy picky. But aren't we all. Like I say the hood and bumpers are the the main things that in my eyes are far from perfect. But I know since the hood has been painted on to add the stripes and reclear it may be a little different. Also since I think that paint maybe harder that was probably not a great place to start working on to figure out process for rest of car.

When I was doing my test area I was applying a good amount of pressure. I have watched all of the Adams and Junkmans vids and feel as I am trying to mimic the pressure and I think I am going very slow. I sometimes am not sure if I can tell if the polish is flashing so I keep working until it just looks a little greasy. I may have been using a little to much product. When I would hit the pad with a squirt of DS I wasn't bringing much polish back. But then once I hit it with 2 squirts and a lot of product appeared. So I did that a lot on the rest of the car. The bumpers I feel is very hard to get pressure on them to correct. I think if I really understood how many passes with each product a section could take to correct I would feel better. But I stopped trying to perfect the test area which was the hood and some of the fender, because I was afraid with so many passes I was gonna rub the clear off. I think I may just have to enjoy it the rest of the summer and then this winter take my time and do a panel at a time until perfect, if there is such a thing. I just am really considering trying to return the Pc and step up to the flex. I understand they do the same thing, I just can't see each panel taking 10 plus hours for perfection. So I keep reading how much faster the flex is. Not sure what to do.

Yeah the humidity is a little worse than kansas but the crowds are crazy at animal kingdom today. Makes me like my office job a lot more.

In Disney world for the next 10 days without camaro. I will try and get some pics when I get back.

I am pretty sure you would have to follow SHR with Revive or it will be a little hazy.

Wow had not even thought that these could be under the clear. I have seen pics of what was done. Here is a link to the pics of what was done to my car. I may try and call them and see if they can tell me anymore. Flickriver: Photoset 'Black 2010 Camaro Gets Some Synergy Green Color ' by CCCSTL

Well I finally finshed last week. It is not perfect and I am really second guessing my purchase of the PC, thinking I should have went flex. I have also received a few messages telling me I will need something more aggressive than SSHR to deal with some of this. Maybe I can send PC back and purchase a flex since I am not satisfied. I just dont know what to do. But It looks alot better, most everything turned out pretty good except hood, and bumpers. Now one thing about the hood is that when they previous owner added the green accents they were painted and the hood was recleared so I am thinking maybe the hood has a much harder clear coat and that is some of the problem. Also do I need to worry that the clear could be thinner or most generally it is thicker.

Thanks for the encouragement! Everyday I curse o why did I have to find a black car with a whipple dirt cheap. I would have taken green, yellow, red, silver! After my 98 black cobra I swore never black again, I can't believe I forgot how bad it truly is. It will look good when I am done but it won't be perfect:(