BRZN Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 (edited) After some servicing upkeep, and several winter mods, I needed to take care of the paint around the front clip. First let me show off or explain what was done. New Absorbed Gas Mat Deka battery from a buddy that's doing subcontracting electrical work at the Deka facility. Shifter was tightened back up. Two bolts hold the handle shaft to the shifter, one of the bolts had backed out a little allowing the shaft to move a bit fore and aft. Sports Appearance Package Side Skirts were reattached to the lower rocker panels. Brake rotor's hats, veins/fins were painted with POR High Temp flat black paint, calipers were thoroughly cleaned and touched up. Caliper brackets were sand blasted and painted with the POR paint. Russell Braided Stainless Steel Brake Lines were installed. LOL! A little Redneck arts and crafts at the kitchen table with my good buddy Charlie who helped out quite a bit. Hey, my wife took the picture, so I guess she was okay with this. Better shot of one of the new brake lines Of course, while the wheels were off they were polished again! WW wipe down, Metal Polish #2, perfection! I cleaned and Detail Sprayed the suspension, and entire underside of the car. Nothing better than detailing the pumpkin with Pumpkin Spice Detail Spray, LOL! Next I moved to the Engine. Stock it looked too sanitary, a set of plastic covers over top of the coils and valve covers. You really couldn't see the engine. With the plastic covers off the LS2 has, rough, cast aluminum valve covers with pegs coming out to hold the plastic covers, two bulky, painted black coil brackets, and a pretty lame looking fuel rail. The power steering reservoir is an opaque plastic that turns brown after many heat cycles, the engine bay also sports an air box with so many 90 degree bends before the throttle body I don't know how the motor breaths. A bit of research on the ole interwebs, a couple dollars, a bit of labor, a few more dollars, a broken bolt, several more dollars, some more labor, and I finally came up with this! Once all the mods were completed, a couple of pesky fuel leaks were addressed, and the hood was adjusted to close properly over top of everything, it was time to clean up the marring I'd induced to the paint on the front clip. The front end was given a thorough wipe down with Adam's Waterless Wash using several of the Plush Blue Waffle Weave Microfiber Towels. The rest of the car had just some slight dusting and was wiped down with Rinseless Wash mixed up as a Waterless Wash. Wax was removed with a chemical wax remover. I clayed the front end with the new Visco Clay; neat stuff, and it worked really well considering this car was already pretty clean. I taped off a few areas I didn't want to have to deal with later. Out came the Rupes 15 and Rupes Mini. First was an Orange Microfiber pad and Paint Correcting Polish followed up with a White Foam Pad and Paint Finishing Polish. The Clear Bra across the front of the car was polished by hand using an old bottle of Adam's Clear Polish. A coat of Brilliant Glaze followed up with two coats of Patriot Paste Wax and she's looking good again. One more decent rain to wash the remaining salt from the road and she'll be back out on the road! Edited March 12, 2016 by BRZN jpenny902, TheWolf, LFairbanks and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blcksilv08 Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Sounds like you've been keeping busy, that GTO looks awesome. The calipers, wheel wells, and engine bay look so much cleaner. BRZN and Dan@Adams 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild2003ss Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Looking good Between you and Dan I'm really really wanting to pick up a goat. :D BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan@Adams Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Looking outstanding good buddy! Those valve covers look amazing...wish I could run them with the supercharger BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahls01gmc Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Looks great! I love that color. BRZN and Dan@Adams 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James__ Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Incredible job getting it all ready for the spring! She looks great! BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red94chev Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Damn that thing is clean! Good work man, I love the GTOs and G8s myself. BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 That's one of the best looking Goats around Dave. She looks fantastic. All your work paid off. BRZN and Dan@Adams 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan@Adams Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 I forgot to mention that I couldn't resist the nice weather yesterday and took mine out last night after I found and fixed my boost leak. It hits 7psi just fine now The new problem is that after sitting for so long, when I cut the wheels backing up in the driveway, power steering fluid started leaking from somewhere near the pump and dripped onto the serpentine belt and ground. As you can imagine, I now had nice red fluid flung all over the engine bay from the spinning belt...fun cleanup at midnight... Dave, any time you want to stop and detail the undercarriage of a blue GTO, let me know...I'm going to busy enough cleaning up the engine bay now BRZN, James__, TheWolf and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris@Adams Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Real NICE Dave!! BRZN and Dan@Adams 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc2hill Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Fantastic work as usual Dave! Love your write-ups. BRZN and Dan@Adams 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirahnah3 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Wow....now THAT is some detail dedication! She looks absolutely stunning. Well done Dave and kudos to the wife for taking the pics Dan@Adams and BRZN 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxgto06 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Beautiful car! BRZN and Dan@Adams 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenWS6 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 I wish the under side of my garage queen stayed that clean. BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWolf Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Excellent work Dave! The brake parts look good in matte black. BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GXPaycheck Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Best looking Monaro I've seen in a while! BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahls01gmc Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Where does the intake get its air from? Looks like the opening on it lands in-between the scoops on the hood and the edge of the hood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRZN Posted March 11, 2016 Author Share Posted March 11, 2016 (edited) Thanks for all the kind words all. Dan, I'd originally painted the rotor hats back in 2008 with Duplicolor gloss black caliper paint. I didn't really like the sheen, and it wasn't near as hard as the POR is. The Duplicolor began to chip off badly. This flatter black I have to agree looks much better. James, The CAI gets its air from where the stock air intake got it's, between the top of the bumper and the leading edge of the hood. However, this new Duspeed CAI also pulls from the kidney grilles. There is a large curved protrusion that channels the air from the grille openings right up and into itself. The hood's scoops are really just to let hot air escape. Edited March 11, 2016 by BRZN TheWolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapdon Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 another badass goat. great job BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinoWhosoever Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 awww love the GOAT! BRZN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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