Hi all! Ryan here, and if you can't tell by my username, I have a 1982 Cutlass. Many will hate at first because it has a Chevy 355 in it, but that was in the car when I bought it earlier this spring. I have plans to swap a built 455 BBO into it in the next year or two though.

I basically am a gearhead and I am into pretty much anything that moves under it's own power, though I will never own an import. My Cutlass is my daily driver in the summer and it will be in storage during the winter.

Currently the setup in the Cutlass is 355 SBC, balanced rotating assembly (stock parts) ARP rod bolts, flat top hyper. pistons with valve reliefs, Trick Flow Kenny Duttweiller series heads, Trick Flow roller rockers, Edelbrock performer intake, Edelbrock 600 CFM carb (holding me back... need a 750) Comp Cams 280H cam, Hooker long tube headers, dual 3" mandrel bent exhaust with Flowmaster mufflers. The trans is a 200-4R that I installed a TransGo Performance shift kit in, rear is a stock 7.5" with posi and 3.73 gears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWNSLq0umw - Idle vid

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Clean 82: Very pretty Oldsmobile, even if SB350 powered. Look forward to seeing your installation of the 455 BB Olds in the near future! Welcome to CO!

 

What a beauty! Love that color!! Welcome to our site!

 

I like your car very nice color and wheel combo. Reminds me of a car I built back in the mid 90's. Welcome to the site.

 

Welcome to CO. Very nice car, coincidentally I was just reading about how much effort goes into a really nice deep paint job in the September issue of Street Rodder. Good reflections!

 

Thanks for the welcome!

I have been into detailing as a hobby for a few years now and have quite the arsenal of goodies to help me along. Did I mention that there is no wax at all on the car in any of those pics?

 

Well what do you put on it???

 

Nice car, really like that color! Welcome aboard.

Les

 

Nothing yet in those pics. Most of those pics were taken over a week long meet that I host on another car forum. Some of the pics the car was dirty, others it was just washed, and I think one or two of them it was freshly polished and I didn't have time to wax it at the time. It now has some Pinnacle Souveran paste wax on it.

When I bought the car, the paint was already done, but it spent a lot of time under a car cover. The paint looked perfect at first, but upon closer inspection, you could see a lot of hazing and minor swirl marks in it. I did a one step polish on it so far to get rid of all of the swirls and hazing and most of the small scratches that were caused by the car cover. It still needs the finishing polish to really make it pop, but for now, the paint already looks better then about 99% of the daily drivers I see on the road

I am not a professional detailer by any means, but I have done some pretty amazing turnarounds since I have started a couple years ago.

Here are some links to some of the past details I have done
Ford Escape
Lincoln Navigator
Chevy Silverado
Chevy S10
Mercedes CLK430
Iron Horse chopper

This one is my favorite though! I was detailing a Trailblazer and my oldest son, Peyton, wanted to wash up his ride as well
Priceless Silverado detail

If anyone has any detailing questions, I am more then happy to help out

 

Welcome and cool ride.


Wax dulls down the depth of the paint and the surface look funky after a few days Sandy. Then you wonder why it isn't as shiny as it was before and wax it again, never ends. It's more for surface protection than anything alse, does make it a little shinier but not nearly as deep and shiny as polish or glaze alone.
I just polished the paint when I showed my GTO big time, if I was going to do a major judged show with it again I'd remove the wax.
I won all those shows years ago so no reason to go nuts now.

 

If you use a good wax, it will not dull the paint, especially on base / clear paint systems. On the older, single stage paint, most people use a cleaner wax on it that actually contains abrasives that will remove a layer of the paint when waxing, so over time it will look worse.

A natural carnauba wax or a good synthetic sealant is a great way to protect your paint and give it some extra depth.

Machine polishing will make the finish look good because you are removing most of the swirls, scratches, hazing, and holograms in the paint that ruin the reflectivity and gloss.

A glaze only fills in the scratches and swirls, as a glaze is non abrasive.

When my car is ready for shows (needs more interior work) it will be polished then waxed for sure.