Why Do New Cars Need A Detail? First Wash Matt Farah's Modified Porsche Spyder!

Well, it's finally here. Matt Farah's 718 Spider Frozen Berry has a 565-horsepower, 4.5-liter Motorsport engine in this little car. In fact, it makes more horsepower at the wheel than the current GT3 cranks. This thing is crazy because it's new. Of course, we have to clean it up, get everything ready for Matt's arrival and then we're going for a spin today in this episode of Drive Protect DLR Foreign ER was on the deck. I started it to move it inside and immediately knew. this is not a normal 718, the sound at the start was amazing, oh strange, towards the end of the video Matt comes into the studio and explains exactly what he did to the engine and why, so be sure to check out the review.

I bought a stick car so I can swap it out before starting the real project the next day. Just had to remove some of the paint protection now just to get an idea of ​​the color and see if there were any obvious issues so far, all good after a very quick inspection but we'll start with the real

detail

s tomorrow morning. The

first

step the next day is to remove all the protective covers from the inside and of course scrape all the stickers from the inside of the glass. It's like unwrapping glass. the biggest iPhone ever made and it's super fun as far as the window sticker, which ironically isn't actually a sticker itself, it's actually stuck to the glass with a separate sticker that keeps the window sticker in quotes on its place but that sticker always leaves glue and is usually just a hassle to remove the glass on a side note the window sticker is also called a monroney and is illegally required to be displayed on all new vehicles as it contains official information about the car for customers to read before purchasing the vehicle anyway, the best way to remove the window sticker is to use a long-handled razor blade.

It is much easier to remove glue from glass. Plus, I always save every piece of paper, regardless of what it says. I put it in the glove compartment and let the customer decide what to do with it later, a hundred years ago. I used to do this for a dealership, only 100

cars

a day and one time someone got really mad because I didn't keep some kind of delivery label. I don't remember what it was, so anyway, in the future, that's just a rule. I always save everything I can. I throw it in the glove compartment and let them decide if they want it or not.

Then I inspect the paint and lift the car. Prepare to

wash

and of course polish, but

first

the wheels have to come off on new Porsches. Most of the time the wheels have a lock. You can find the key inside the frunk in a plastic tool compartment. Now look at this when I remove the rear wheel look at the fabulous speed exhaust very cool and probably why it sounded like an animal oh look at that exhaust look at that engine OMG Louise with all four shoes now off I started the

wash

with my only bucket and my foreign blue microfiber towel with the multiple towels now soaked in soap.

The first step is a healthy pressure wash. I then soaked everything in a thick coat of ammo foam paint cleaner and let the lubrication do its job, especially, of course, on super smooth new paint while it marinated. Concentrate. about cleaning the wheel wells The ceramics and of course the calipers again are not very dirty, but they are certainly not ready to receive the July wheel coating later. I gently wash off the paint with my Blue Ultra Plush Microfiber Wash Towel now for all the products, towels and tools I use it on all of our new car deliveries, which is a lot.

Visit ammonyc.com to support our small business of unique, precise formulas, as well as our weekly in-depth video since 2012. Yes, it's a decade. I can not believe it. Thanks for watching and supporting the company, I appreciate it, guys, the dirt that was there has already been removed. I pressure washed the paint, especially on the seams, because we will also be putting on a clear bra after polishing, so making sure those seams are clean is extra. important when you put on a clear bra, finally I use compressed air and a microfiber towel to dry the paint well before inspecting it with my lights to see what may be required from a polishing or correction standpoint again with most

cars

new.

Unfortunately not Porsche. Being an exception, slight haze may be seen due to polishing at the factory, which is probably due to minor paint imperfections during the painting process. I'm not sure but that is usually the case, as you can see here there are some lines and certainly some marks from the delivery or Even when installing the paint protection sheets I think something is going on there. I

need

to learn more about how that process actually happens in the factory, but anyway, when you remove those sheets, you can see that there are some minor imperfections again, all minor, but I also found those same wavy lines that I saw on the red GT3 a few years ago. months, if you remember, well, at this point I've done about half the car and the paint looks pretty good now if you remember from a previous episode on a GT3. that was completely new.

I had an interesting problem that was within the painting. It seemed like there were weird, blurry little lines that just curved and looked like an artistic design. I can't describe it any different than that. I think it was because of the white paper that goes here, that plastic sheet to protect it. My gut tells me that moisture gets underneath from traveling or washing or whatever happens and gets trapped in the paint and when the paint is new. and fresh and still gassing and relatively soft, I think he's putting these indentations in these hologram type things there, so I'm seeing them, some here, I have some here and some on the back and I saw one or two on the other side, so it requires polishing even though it is a new car.

I know a lot of you are thinking, hey, why are we polishing a new car? It's to get that last one percent of perfection out, obviously, it's beautiful. It's

matt

e, you will love the car, you will drive it and take it everywhere. I think it's appropriate to do that, so I have a few more steps to do on the paint and then we'll go in and do the same thing on the tweezers, you can see there's just a little bit of love marks there, super easy stuff before we go in and get the transparent bra. I'm using a new polish that I've been working on that has what we call a longer working time. the paint means it won't dry very quickly which is a big deal for me, along with an original yellow foam pad, super cool combination.

The key with any paint restoration process again is to blow out that pad, so whatever polish you use. Whatever palette you have, you should continue blowing those pads with compressed air after a few passes or sections again, all depending on the level of residue coming out of the paint. In this case, the new, modern paint will require fewer blowouts and let's say obviously. old rusty single stage paint, that kind of thing is very obvious, you'll see the pad just fill up and get very shiny, but you still have to blow a lot when you're trying to get that flawless finish that you want. final pass, the pad has to be super clean, then we have to do the gauges when I'm done, the difference is subtle but very noticeable in person, sure it just has a different type of shine for a different type of aura.

I know it sounds. Cheesy, but then you can see it was worth it for the tweezers. I repeated the exact same process but this time with a one inch pad and a one inch buffer and it looked great in Dieter's studio at Porsche Carlsbad with clear side markers instead The installation of the orange color against the colored paint Berry is super easy - just turn off the lights with a little pressure on the bumper, release the electrical connector and then replace the caps in two minutes and the difference was huge, especially since they actually matched the headlight design at the same time. and of course it doesn't clash with the paint color, a very good choice.

Next, I clean the wheels in preparation for July's Pro Wheel Coating again. This stuff wasn't super nasty, but it certainly wasn't clean enough for a coating application, weird stuff normally found on rims, which are probably stickers that have been there forever. I use a solvent based cleaner like a quick remover or Goof Off. Once clean and dry, I apply retard to the clean microfiber applicator pad and apply the product to each radius and crevice repeating the process. On the freshly painted calipers also the shine was amazing in what I'm told is a super cool custom red finish with the wheel coating curing, we installed a clear clip on the lower rockers to protect the paint like

matt

e, I'm sure it will will do.

I will be traversing the canyons of California in the next few weeks, this process of course takes a few days and is very tedious to install, but when everything was ready I installed a new layer of Reflex Pro over or on top of the bra for additional protection, of course, easier. of cleaning in the future now my favorite part and probably the most significant is before Matt dropped the car off about two weeks before, he asked me if I could remember to install an ammo sticker on the front splitter, which again is very significant, already knew. him for over 30 years and putting my company logo of course on his car means a lot to me so I'm a little biased of course but I actually think it looks very stylish too, I finally reinstalled the wheels I vacuumed the interior a bit, scratched the carpets, and of course cleaned the glass before Matt got there, she's, what's up with this?

It is the best chassis. Porsche makes the roof come off. The size is perfect for the roads. The shape is beautiful. a stick shift, which no, I'm not going to spend six figures on a sports car to not drive with a stick, yeah, it's not, it's not what I'm interested in, yeah, and then you know, did I

need

the power? Did I need the gearing like no Bots, yes yes, once I tried it there was certainly no turning back, so the combination of all this gave me some specs on what it would compare to, it has the power to weight ratio of a Carrera GT, really yes, approximately.

I mean, within a couple of small percentage points, but the bottom line is basically what we're seeing for the average viewer right now, if someone was next to him, if you were lined up with a brand new GT3 like, are you going to host ? a GT not even close, so speaking of which, have you heard the engine yet? No, it's okay, I heard it. Rick sent me a video, but it was like he listened to it on my iPhone. It's like no, it's not real. Now I hear he offers some. options for the exhaust this is the quietest option they offer ok you can make more noise so this is a fabulous velocity header yes velocity header high flow cat and mid pipe attached to valved muffler original because the safari car was Cassis red, which is very rare.

The 80s color is this kind of purple, gold, red, pink and grey, depending on the light you put it under it looks completely different. Yes, when I saw this color called Frozen Berry Metallic on the Tycon, this was the launch color for the rear wheel drive. base tycon uh I thought it was really cool and then when I wanted to order the car I saw that this is not this color, it's a no cost option. A guy who looks like me driving a car that is already considered feminine in a color that shows. like a milkshake with the nastiest engine there, it's like when I used to have a mohawk and wear polo shirts.

I'm sure it's the fat one hanging back, that's Larry's move that looks totally different in the sun still. break the engine, so I'm instructed not to rev too hard, but man, is he tempting, especially in the lower gears? It's a bit surreal, remember, I test drive new cars all the time, but this one is mine, yeah, that's good. weird that's why I feel like I wanted to make it very special I'm trying to go crazy and clean and get under we clean under this I love that first moment it's a big deal I can't I can't like it no fifth Yes, friend, foreigner, we stopped and we decided to lower the top to get the true look of a spider on the road.

It was amazing in person. For more behind-the-scenes information on this episode, check out Matt's podcast, the Smoking Tire we made in the Ammo Studio talks about his new car, YouTube videos, and much more. I'll put a link in the description below and by the way, would you like me to start my

detail

ed podcast again? Leave a comment below and let me know what you think. I'm always interested to hear what you have to say, as always, thanks for watching and I'll see you next week Strawberry Shortcake Strawberry Shortcake