I took a trip up to Top Gun Customz in Alcoa TN to detail this 700hp 1997 Dodge Viper GTS. Her name is Candy and she is real sweet with her supercharged V10! This was my first time working on a Dodge viper, so I was ready to jump in there and make this bad girl shine.

here is the car when I arrived.













































So lets get this started! I began by spraying down the engine bay with some APC (all purpose cleaner) and then agitated it with various brushes



Once I finished the agitation I rinsed it down and began to blow dry all of the crevices with my Metro Magic Air.



Then I liberally applied some 303 aerospace protectant to the entire engine bay.



Now that the engine bay was complete, Next I started on the wheels.

I applied P21s wheel Gel diluted to 3:1 ratio, and I let it dwell for about 15 min.



Then agitated it with my EZ detail brush and other various brushes.










After the Wheels, I sprayed a coat of Snow Foam with my Foam canon attachment.



Let it dwell and roll of any heavy dirt



then Rinse.......



After the heavy dirt was washed off I applied another coat of snow foam and began to wash the paint using a two bucket method.



then rinsed.....



I dried it using a ReThickulous towel.



Once all of the oils and previous waxes were removed, the Tru Surface is revealed!













Now it's time to bring it in and prep it and clay it.

I used Clay magic blue fine clay and Show room shine as clay lube.



This is just half the hood!





Now it's time for the compounding stage, I used my Flex 3401 with Lake country Cyan Hydrotech pad, with Meguiars M105.







here is a 50/50 of the piller.



















Next after the Compounding stage I polish the paint with a Tangerine Hydrotech pad and Meguiars M205 polish.





After the paint was polished I sealed it using Black Fire Wet Diamond

then I polished the wheels using Bushes Polsih



and then treated the door jams with 303




and after all said and done, here are the Final shots.

























Thanks for viewing and have a blessed day!

 

i love all your work! great job.

 

Damn! that looks great!

 

Fallen Rock you are truly blessed to be able to work on these rides and get paid to boot

 

Thanks Fallen Rock, you've really inspired me over the past few weeks. I use to detail back in High School, all elbow grease and such. After reading all your posts I decided to give it a shot again, maybe even make some side $$$. I did my wifes '02 neglected Accord on Saturday using most of your tricks and let me tell you, amazing results! I skimped on a few things because I had the kids with me but it was about a 14 hour job and I felt relaxed the whole time, it was actually stress relieving and fun. Thanks again! (I'd post pics but I haven't seen the car in the sun yet).

 

haha, cool deal. I am glad to help! 1 year ago i sent the same type of message to my buddy QBmurderer13 here on FitFreak.net. I detailed back in the day for about 5 years at a dealer, but I was your typical hack job detailer, I was just doing it for the money and didn' care about the final out come. but then 1 year ago I seen QB's write ups on details and started studying. you can learn alot on Autopia.org and Truthindetailing.com.

just keep at it and take your profit and buy good materials and tools and you'll be were im at in no time!

 

Mmmmm Viper GTS. One of my fav cars. A bitch to insure though, as I did some research when I thought about getting one before settling on the NSX.

 

Nice work as usual!

I'd take a Viper. I can hardly think of a car that is more opposite of the Fit, and they would compliment each other well. I've always liked them, and I see youngish men out on Sundays in them occasionally around here, but the insurance has got to be ridiculous, as was mentioned.

 

That's actually part of the reason the Viper was redesigned with a more conventional hood. The older clamshell design, while very cool, was an insurance premium waiting to happen. Young or old driver, insurance companies will charge you a premium for it.

 

I love the look of that car, it appears to be lowered and those wheels are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay nicer than the OE's for sure! I noticed the plate in the one pic and it shows the county BLOUNT, that is near the Dragon, I bet that things been down there but I don't know how in the hell you'd control a Viper on that road, and with a blower on too, INSANE FOR SURE!!!

The GTS of that vintage is my favorite Viper of all time, either that blue w/white or white w/blue stripes, can't lose

 

Wow, I love viewing your work!
Awesome job as usual

 

wow really nice work.

 

That is one hell of a job, very thourough! You could detail my Fit any day! lol

 

That Viper is a killer.You do magic on that car....Amazing!!!

 

Another amazing job. Come to brazil soon, i need to do this in my car.

 

Love what you do... Keep it up man.