Milehighmileage's 91 Berlina Black from the dead

[Milehighmileage]

Hi

care to share the 'proper way'

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Here is a great example of just letting some things go and having people that know what they are doing work on your car:
Previously, I posted about how great my car looked after polishing... And it did.. until I pulled it out under the sun.
Turns out, if you have an idiot who has no idea what they are doing, and hand them an orbital polisher and a wool pad, they will destroy the clear coat (or whats left of it). The good part to the situation is that the idiot in this case was myself so I could only hold onto the frustration deep down inside.
I've always stayed in touch with a car-friend from high school and as it turns out, he does paint correction for a living!
We have gone back and forth with I-Owe-U's but this time around I have some serious debt to pay. He spent about 11 hours teaching and helping re-polish the car in a proper way.

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Holy Smokes! I apologize I never saw your reply.
The "Proper Way" is just a giant series of steps of Cleaning/ Decontaminating, Cutting, then many many hours of polishing. I had a friend that does paint correction for a living give me pointers and let me use his DA polishers. We spent about 12 hours on it together, so in total this job is about 20 Hours.

 

[Milehighmileage]

Ok, here comes my annual thread update

Lots of free time to be had during this Covid-19 outbreak has been spent on my car. unfortunately the vast majority has felt like body work but hey what can ya do?
- Biggest mechanical repair I made was fixing the dented oil pan from a.. lets say foolish decision.
Before:

Oil pan gasket Part No. (Thanks to Jimmy Pham for sending this part so Quick)

Installed:


I had an issue dealing with the rusted hardware when removing the lower pipe that attaches to the header, what a PITA. (I plan on going na2 headers at some point)
But NSX-0 Chase-1
Irwin sells a socket set that has teeth for removing stripped/ rusted bolts and nuts
Aftermath:


Also performed a Fuel Filter Change/ Spark Plug service

Discovered bank 1 coil packs are super rusty from water running down the rear cowl (welcome to nsx ownership you dummy- @ me)

A few elbow greases later: