Ok well i recut and compuonded/polished/glazed my oem hood today. I dont recommend trying this at home because there is a huge change that most of you guys will burn though ur clear with the rotary and wll need to take the hood in for a repaint but anyhow thought id share.

Here are some pics of the hood before today. it used to have allot of streaks, orange peel etc. So today i wetsanded it all flat with 2500 grit and then compounded/polished/glazed with the Meguires Mirror Glaze system.

Enjoy.

Old Pics (u can see the streaks, nasty, etc, even worse in person the pics hide allot of the problems that there were)



New Pics (nothing, clean and sharp as a mirror )

Wetsanded







After a round with the compound on the rotary







Polished to take out the compound swirls







Final Glaze! Hows that for a mirror finish










Reinstalled on the Z




-B-

 

is that just a SB hood? if so.. why would you do that? i can see CF.. but a black painted hood?

 

I repainted my oem hood mercedes SL black the roof is also going to be repainted this next week the same color that is why i did it.

 

Wow that looks 100x better, it looks like glass on your hood, nice job!


ClaytonC01
What if you had swirls all over your SB car? It would annoy the **** out of you, same case with him, he has a SB hood and it was nasty, he just fixed it so its clean and like a mirror again, people repaint entire cars because of the issue he was having on his hood. Thats why he did it.

 

i had nothing against refinishing it.. but i didnt think it looks right with a black painted hood.. but if hes doing the roof in black too.. it might look better

 

yea its no prob clayton some people just dont dig/get the black hood. no problems

-B-

 

are you doing the hatch too?

 

nah i dont really like the look of the hatch being black. just the roof and hood

 

Pretty serious detailing job. Beautiful.

 

That black hood is going to have a lot of rock chips on it, unless you clearbra'd it. Nice job though!

 

Good work, outstanding even. I want to see pics after the roof is done too. I think I'll like it, but agree seeing just the hood black was a bit odd without understanding where you were going with it.

 

alot of work but it came out great

 

damn, that looks tight man. If I ever get another black car you will need to teach me all that shiat

 

Thanx atar


Thanx man. yea i know its gonna get wrecked. im going to have to drive it to riverside about 30 miles everyday this next week. Im just going to creep the entire distance and keep mad space between the cars in front of me :O

Thanx david

Yea i know. its kinda funny cuz everyone and their mom thinks it carbon fiber. Like ill talk to a guy and hell be like yea gonna do other carbon fiber?? and ill laugh adn be like i dont really have allot of cf. rofl but he think the hood is cf

Idwin thanx for teh compliment

-B-

rofl. allot of practice and fack ups



I also washed and waxed the entire Z too so some more pics if u guys wanna look

https://my350z.com/forum/media-share/205367-washed-waxed-the-works.html

 

Brian how'd you do this and not call me foo...I want to see what we can do with my hood before I paint it even if we do it all black for now.

 

Ed. i personally dont think you should do black on ur hood at all. it needs to be lamans for sure!

Ive been really busy lately but i think i might have a plan for ur hood.

Pmed.

-B-

 

SMOOTH AS A$$.. What kinda polish did you use?

 

Awesome stuff, makes the random orbital buffer look a little silly...

 

HAHA. thats not true. the RO buffer is good for detailing and like i said, most people should not try to do this cuz the risk of jacking the hood up is pretty high.

I used a 3m Machine Glaze for the final polish.

 

Awesome job. I really want to learn how to do this. Perhaps I need to pick up a random hood from a junk yard and see what kind of damage I can do. Again, nice job.