Detailing the Underside of my Cobra - Polished the Driveshaft

[sonicmach1]

I have been cleaning the underside of my car recently as I posted in another thread. Tonight I raised it up to 1) Tighten the rear axleshaft nuts 2) Repair the weld rust on the front crossmember. While I had it up, I had an impulse to polish the driveshaft. An hour or two of work and it came out nicely.

I just know I am going to have to polish the rest of the exhaust and the half shafts! :dw:

Before

After

FYI, here is how the cross member turned out too:

 

[Fat-cat]

your waaaay more hardcore than me thats for sure.

 

[thomas91169]

Undercoat that bitch.

Everything under there will look 100x better.

 

[03 TOPLESSSVT]

Undercoat that bitch.

Everything under there will look 100x better.

Not :nono:

 

[Quick96Mystic]

Not :nono:

+1 Do not undercoat

 

[510Terminator]

damn that looks good. nice work!

 

[soccerman002]

Looks great man - bad thing for you is that for every one thing you clean up under the car, it makes whatever you haven't touched look that much worse, and the cycle continues, lol.

 

[TERMINATED97]

nice work man!

 

[BossAnaki]

What did you use to clean with?

 

[ColorMatched]

I'm a big fan of polishing my driveshaft every now and then too...

Seriously, looks pretty good, but I never found the reason of cleaning the underside so much, unless you bring a rotisserie with you to car shows!?

 

[encasedmetal]

and you didn't do your exhaust why?

 

[kevinatfms]

:nonono:entirely unnecessary. drive the damn car!

 

[thomas91169]

+1 Do not undercoat

Why not?

Helps keep rust away and will make the whole underside look way nicer. Most cars come from the factory undercoated it, boggles my mind that the mustang still does not. Guess ford likes the "rustang" insults to stay common.

Even my pos dsm came factory undercoated.

 

[lucheski]

Why not?

Helps keep rust away and will make the whole underside look way nicer. Most cars come from the factory undercoated it, boggles my mind that the mustang still does not. Guess ford likes the "rustang" insults to stay common.

Even my pos dsm came factory undercoated.

afaik all the latemodel mustang are undercoated from factory as my cobra is

 

[thomas91169]

I looked under a buddies '11 and it didnt have any undercoating. Its a CA car though so I could see where Ford would omit that from a build sheet.

 

[sonicmach1]

Looks great man - bad thing for you is that for every one thing you clean up under the car, it makes whatever you haven't touched look that much worse, and the cycle continues, lol.

Indeed! And that is the problem.

 

[sonicmach1]

What did you use to clean with?

‎2000 grit wet sand by hand, then drill powerball/cloth ball and Simichrome and all touched-up by hand as well.

 

[TorchMach]

you have way to much time on your hands.

 

[98rs]

Why not?

Helps keep rust away and will make the whole underside look way nicer. Most cars come from the factory undercoated it, boggles my mind that the mustang still does not. Guess ford likes the "rustang" insults to stay common.

Even my pos dsm came factory undercoated.

Every car I ever looked at that had under coating I would think that they were hiding something. No way I would under coat something unless it car that way.

 

[Crimson2v]

Looks great, I wish I had the time to do this to mine.