Waxing in 95 degrees and almost 100% humidity

Marc (Zelse) and I spent 5-6 hours detailing his black RX-8 in my garage. I must have lost 3 lbs of water just from perspiring during that time. In the end it was all worth it and we journeyed out for some photos. Hope you enjoy.

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Looks great, and yeah, nowadays it takes a little consideration to decide to stay out and work on it this long heh.

Wow nice pix...you can really see the shine haha..

Looks nice.

What brand wax did you use?

Yes, what wax did you use? Nice photos!

THoes are some kick ass pics man, the hours of hard work in the garage was deff worth it

Nice! High heat and humidity at night time owned me last night. I don't know how you did that during the day time lol

The humidity was brutal for sure. If I did not have help I would have never attempted it that day.

I used my PC7424 for all applications. Car had smooth surfaces from clay bar before hand.

Process
1. Wash/Dry
2. Menzerna PowerGloss
3. Poor Boys SSR1
4. Meg's Step 5

Was planning to put on a coat of Natty's Paste Wax Blue, but after all that we were simply beat from the heat.

nice, what suspension does he have?

He has stock struts and Tein S-Tech. I have Mazdaspeed struts and Tein S-Tech.

good job, cars look clean. last time I tried to wash the car in high heat I gave up within 10minutes lol

Very, very, nice Altspace. Far better than my tree & brush clearing today - almost killed me! :)

Pictures look great..as always..:)

nice series altspace. i love your wheels, what are they again?

beautiful pics as always...

nice series altspace. i love your wheels, what are they again?

Work Emotion XT-7s!

Very nice pics!

Good Job.

Looks amazing!! I am going to have to give that process a try on a day when I have lots of time.

looks good


north eastern probe owners club???

so fresh so clean...good job!!!

pics are dirtyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy i love em

Great lookin cars... it helps when both cars have similar features (AP, no tint, sunroof, springs, etc) also a great photographer helps!

looks good.

north eastern probe owners club???

Thx all. NEPOC is New England Protege Owners Club that started years ago when all of us owned a version of the Mazda Protege. I had a Protege 5 before my 8. So the name of the club just stuck with us.

thanks guys for the compliments. :) Took us seemingly forever but like Josh said, about 5 hours. Good times.

Some really nice pictures.

I happened to like one very much in particular but I had to PS out the lamp post and overhead wires... Here's the editted picture - I think it's a bit cleaner and more focused on the car.

BEFORE
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AFTER
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o108/dkny10001/RX-8/mj31.jpg

Heh, I would have done the same to many photos but just did not feel like editing them all to that degree. thx though, looks great.

One more at the end of the night.

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Great work - that was pretty brave... it certainly paid off!

...and i thought this thread was going to be one of those regular wax picture threads, great shots!

Nice edit there 416. :x Definitely helps the picture out big time. Thanks again guys. Some point I'll stray away from the completely stock look. At least the wide tires and springs help.. :x

Nice pictures. Appearance Package FTW!!

you know its hot when you cant even wash the car in direct sunlight... tried at 3pm on a july afternoon in FL.
about 95 and 2000% humidity. as soon as the water hit the car, it was gone. i was literally spraying water spots onto the car.
re-washing at 9pm probably looked pretty weird. but then i saw some guy washing his camaro too.

Good thing was that we had some overcast cloud cover from time to time.

Some adjusted Lomo effect photos.

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...and i thought this thread was going to be one of those regular wax picture threads, great shots!

Regular pics?.......not from me. hehe ;)

Regular pics?.......not from me. hehe ;)

Not from me either... :)

Excellent pics!!

Oh you naughty girl you.

Both looks great..
the 5 hour polish worth the effort.. It shines like mirror..

Yeah but with all the rain for the past couple days... can't really tell ..well..anything. lol

wow the paint on the black looks deep!

Photoshop skillz. hehe ;)

Bring on the heat! I can't wait to start detailing again.

Same here altspace; I'm really tired of this bitter cold winter already! :(

same here...but this weekend is going to be nice. 53 degrees here on suday :)

looks good, great job.

I've always like your pictures Altspace. Keep it up :icon_tup:

god damn i miss the summer time.

that looks sick!

Oh summer, oh summer where are u? Those were some nice shots.

Thx guys. Heard we have a little warm front coming thru the east coast this weekend. Might be able to detail a little. Just finished painting my used VR rear aero flares.

Your friend's front left undertray panel is loose eh?

Nope, that's his license plate. It folds and hides under.