Aston Martin V8 Vantage

[Exidous]

Love the eject.

[largeorangefont]

Looks gude!!

[shainiac]

Sound clips?

[cholmes]

Ha! Where did you get the EJECT button? I want one!

[digitalsolo]

I’ll get sound clips once I sort out making it not 120 decibel constantly.

Button is from Amazon.  It was ~9 dollars I think.   

[wickedrx7]

Looks good! Good thing you performed all the required maintenance. Would hate to see you get stranded because your exhaust manifold fell off.

[digitalsolo]

Looks good! Good thing you performed all the required maintenance. Would hate to see you get stranded because your exhaust manifold fell off.

It had 3 loose or missing studs/nuts on the header to head flange!   Probably from when the engine was replaced by Aston Martin under warranty.   So, ya know, it was maintenance related!

[kinger]

Wow sharp!  All of it!  LOL on eject botton, I have a "Fire missles" for the same reason LOL 

[spacevomit]

Gorgeous

[DailyDSM]

Seems like it's time to start a build thread...or will you just continue to document the standard "maintenance" items on a V8V here?

[digitalsolo]

If there’s no build thread, they aren’t mods….  Right?

Tune came in today.   Rain for the next few days though.   Tune helps fuel mileage and emissions, by leaning out the mixture, so.   Environmentalist.

[digitalsolo]

Cleared up today so I took it for a short drive.    Tune was 100% worth it.   The factory throttle response was horrible and my main complaint in the car really.   Drastically improved in the tune now, shifting/rev matching is much nicer.   Supposed to be worth 35-40 HP as well but I didn’t have a chance to hammer on it much.

[kinger]

Who did the tune?  With exhaust rough power estimate? 

[digitalsolo]

Velocity AP did the tune.

Estimate would be around 440-450 flywheel.

[kinger]

My FD might sell and I have been looking at something like a AM, great cars!