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Old 04-26-2010, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by NFRs2000NYC,Apr 26 2010, 04:45 PM
CD2 does not leave your bay looking like a greasy jerry curl. It just needs to properly dry.
How should it properly dry? I used it and so did my friend and both were all nasty and greasy and discolored his aftercooler and sc with nasty marks and did the same to my intake pipe and my spark plug cover. Not sure what we did wrong.
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If you spray anything on polished parts, you will need to buff it off. This is common knowledge. As for everything else, it just needs 24 hours or a few hours under a heated engine to dry completely. It does not stay greasy at all. Just buff it off anything polished.
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nice write-up, i'll have to try it when me car gets here either wednesday or thursday because I know it will be dirtier than anything sitting on the back of a truck going half way cross the country & no one took care of it for almost a year since I had to leave it home.
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Originally Posted by NFRs2000NYC,Apr 26 2010, 06:27 PM
If you spray anything on polished parts, you will need to buff it off. This is common knowledge. As for everything else, it just needs 24 hours or a few hours under a heated engine to dry completely. It does not stay greasy at all. Just buff it off anything polished.
Hmm guess so. Everything else stayed really greasy as well however. Had to wipe everything off a couple days later as it was all greased up and splotchy still. The cleaner stuff worked good just not the greasy stuff.
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If it didn't dry to a nice matte finish, you probably went overboard with it. Just a fine coat is more than enough. I still have the same can for the last 3 years, and I've done 3 cars over 10 times with it.
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Originally Posted by NFRs2000NYC,Apr 26 2010, 06:27 PM
If you spray anything on polished parts, you will need to buff it off. This is common knowledge. As for everything else, it just needs 24 hours or a few hours under a heated engine to dry completely. It does not stay greasy at all. Just buff it off anything polished.

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Originally Posted by NFRs2000NYC,Apr 26 2010, 07:27 PM
If you spray anything on polished parts, you will need to buff it off. This is common knowledge. As for everything else, it just needs 24 hours or a few hours under a heated engine to dry completely. It does not stay greasy at all. Just buff it off anything polished.
well said - been out of the wash wax stuff for a while however i just did the engine bay in the new to me car and it came out great.. looks better than new and i am still on the same can of cd2 when i wrote this how to

very light coats or if you applied too much just wipe it down with a rag
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nice write up.
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Where did you get that S2000 bar?
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it was a whiteline strut bar from MUZ and then all i did was add the S2000 emblem that i shaved off the side of my car with some double sided 3m tape


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