Detailing - Wash and Maintenance

I have another post about how to clay bar a car in minutes rather than hours.  What I didn't cover is how to maintain the finish.

First, I use the two bucket method.  There is a soap bucket and a rinse bucket which has a grit guard in the bottom.  The soap I use is Chemical Brother's Mr. Pink.  I fill both buckets 3/4 of the way to the top, then add a healthy squeeze of soap to the soap bucket.  

To start, I thoroughly rinse the car.  Then I use a chemical brothers microfiber wash mitt soaked in the soapy water bucket to wash the car.  I do one 'section' at a time, then thoroughly rinse the mitt in the rinse bucket, then into the soap bucket, and onto the next section.  The sections are:  Half of the roof and drivers side windows (top half of the doors), drivers side half of the windshield, half of the hood and front fender, bottom half of the drivers side, trunk and rear bumper and half of the rear glass.  Then I rinse the soap off the car.  I then do the front bumper / grill twice and rinse that.  Then the same sections for the passenger side.  

Last I do the wheels.  I use a wheel brush from the soap bucket, soap the wheels, clean them, then as I'm spraying the wheels I go over a second time.  This gets the brush nice and clean before going back to the soap bucket.  

I use a leaf blower to semi-dry the car.  This gets most of the water off, but leaves some small water drops behind.  

Lastly I dump the rinse bucket, rinse it and fill it again with clean water.  Then I put a clean microfiber towel in the rinse bucket and wring it out as best I can.  This leaves the towel damp and preps it for drying the car.  I fold it in half, then in half again - this will give me 8 squares to work with.  I spray the square I'm using with TEC583 which is diluted 1:1 with distilled water.  Then I wipe down a section.  Next section gets a new clean square and a fresh spray with the TEC583.  Once the entire car is done, I let it sit for 10-15 minutes before I buff the car with a dry microfiber towel.  

This really makes it shine, and adds a layer of protection in between wax / sealant.  

For Sale: 1999 Cobra

 I'm posting this for a friend of mine.  

47k miles on the car.  

Interior

Black interior

Corbeau seats with harness bar and two 5 point harnesses

Shift light, boost gauge

SCT Tuner

Engine 

Made 500/ 415 on the dyno

Vortech V2 supercharger with air to water after cooler 

3.4 pulley

Granatelli coils

MSD Launch control / 2 step

MSD Tach Driver

MSD RPM switch

Thump racing belt tensioner and idler pulley

Anderson power pipe kit

BBK Throttle body

Ford Racing 42lb injectors

Ford Motorsport shorty headers

MAC mid pipe with cats

MAC cat back exhaust 

Kenne Bell boost a pump

Chassis and Suspension

K Member brace

IRS bolts, and urethane bushings for subframe, differential mounts and lower rear control arms.

Battery relocated to rear, with kill switch

Urethane engine and trans mounts

Eibach Sportline springs

Bilstein shocks and struts

Steeda sway bar with billet sway bar mounts and urethane bushings

urethane sway bar end links front and rear

Maximum Motorsports full length weld in subframe connectors 

Bump steer kit, front and rear

Steeda X2 ball joints

Aluminum offset steering rack bushings

Rear shock tower brace

Steeda caster camber plates

Drivetrain

Rear diff cover / brace

Ford Racing 3.73 ring and pinion

Track Loc differential

Ford racing driveshaft and Lakewood loop

Tremec TKO 600 transmission, rebuilt / upgraded

Pro 50 shifter

Fidanza flywheel

Lakewood blow proof bell housing 

Center force dual friction clutch

UPR Clutch cable firewall adjuster

Maximum Motorsports quadrant

Power stop drilled and slotted rotors and ceramic pads

SLP line lock

Exterior

White paint just corrected and sealed

Chin spoiler

Smoked headlights

Sequential tail lights

Ford FR500 wheels, staggered with 9x17 front and 10.5x17 rear, powder coated gloss black

Nitto NT555G2 tires around 1k miles

245 40 17 front

315 35 17 rear. 

1994 Mustang Cobra

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Engine

Dart SHP bored to 4.155

Scat forged crankshaft, 3.25 stroke

Liberty rods

CP-Carrillo bullet pistons

FTI custom Camshaft

AFR 185 heads ported and upgraded with larger valves

LGM shaft mount rockers

Romac balancer

7 quart pan

Trick flow R intake

Andersen power pipe

BBK 75mm throttle body

Ted Jenkins fuel lines

Siemens Deka 80lb injectors with Kirban regulator

Tuned with a Moates Quarterhorse and Binary Editor by Ted Jenkins from Tuning Innovations.

Drivetrain

RAM billet aluminum flywheel

RAM powergrip clutch

QuickTime Bell housing

Tremec TKX TCET-18085

PST custom driveshaft with strange chromoly trans and pinion yokes. Upgraded 1350 u-joints.

8.8 welded and straightened

Torsen differential with Ford 3.55 gears

Trick flow main cap stud kit

Strange 31 spline axles with ARP wheel studs

GT500 differential cover.

Exhaust

BBK 1 3/4 primary long tubes modified with a 3 inch V-Band collector, Jet Hot coated

Custom 3 inch stainless H-Pipe

Gibson 3 inch MWA mufflers with V-Bands front and back

Pypes polished stainless 3 inch tailpipes

All welding and fab done by Lou at Herfurth Aluminum Racing Mufflers

Chassis and Brakes

Racecraft road race tubular K-Member

Racecraft A-Arms with factory style spring perch

TeamZ 3/4 drop solid motor mounts

Tokico D-Spec adjustable shocks and struts

Eibach pro-kit springs with Prothane isolators

Maximum Motorsports full length weld in subframe connectors

Maximum Motorsports lower control arms with adjustable spring perch

UPR Double adjustable upper control arms

Spherical bushings on the rear end side, poly bushings on the chassis side

Rear has been centered and pinion angle set

Cross drilled and slotted rotors, powder coated

Cobra calipers, speed bleeders and maximum Motorsports brake lines

Interior

Corbeau LG1 seats

Pioneer DEH-80PRS head unit

Stock Mach 1000 amps and speakers

Zapco ST-500XM II

Dual JL Audio 10w6

Zenclosures custom box

Paint and Body

Cervinis 3.5 cowl hood

Full custom paint done by GCR’s Auto Collision

Tint by Black Glass

Wheels are OEM 2003 Cobra with Nitto NT555G2 tires

1994 Cobra Brakes

 Short write up on the 94 Cobra Brakes

I used the maximum motorsports lines, and the pro stop calipers in the rear- powder coated red.  The front calipers were sent out to be rebuilt and powder coated.  I'll add pics here later!  

Every caliper has a speed bleeder installed.  This makes for a much easier brake bleeding experience because only one person is needed.  The master cylinder is the focus - can't make that run dry!