'B is for Build' V8 Vantage

'B is for Build' V8 Vantage

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BravoV8V

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1,858 posts

173 months

Sunday 26th March 2017
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If you haven't already discovered 'B is for Build' on YouTube, welcome to his next 'build': a V8 Vantage. Chris came to a lot of people's attention when he rebuilt an Evora from scrap (and a few BRZs before that). Although it is often a case of 'B is for Bodge', it is invariably compulsive viewing. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6VC-K4zUYg

Thorburn

2,398 posts

192 months

Sunday 26th March 2017
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Oh dear. His Evora build was a death trap.

petop

2,135 posts

165 months

Sunday 26th March 2017
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Interestingly majority of the comments on the clips are telling them to not put the engine in and keep it like "a Aston should be".

Beefmeister

16,482 posts

229 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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I was really excited about this until he said 'drift machine' and decided he was going to ditch the Aston drivetrain and replace it with some 700hp Toyota engine.

<bangs head against wall>

BravoV8V

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1,858 posts

173 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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This is what he's got planned:



I imagine that will get most of the red trouser brigade throthing into their sherries.


(The reason for the 700bhp engine swap is because he is in a 'build off challenge' with a couple of other 'youtoobers'. It would be very tricky to get the current engine & transmission up to those numbers).

Bungleaio

6,324 posts

201 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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I really enjoy the channel. That chassis leg on the evora is very questionable but I like his muddle it through and have a go attitude.

Fair play on planning on ditching the am drivetrain, he should net a fair bit for that, provided it does actually run I would think.

What he has planned for the car isn't what I would want but at least he's saving it from being stripped for spares.

BravoV8V

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1,858 posts

173 months

Tuesday 31st October 2017
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Beefmeister

16,482 posts

229 months

Tuesday 31st October 2017
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For the click-lazy out there.... wink


telum01

987 posts

114 months

Tuesday 31st October 2017
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Lol I made a cameo at the 3:30 mark in that video.

Chris's expectations for this build have gotten far more realistic than when he bought the car several months ago. I was introduced to him by another guy and we've chatted a bit. I sent him some parts to get a few issues sorted and gave him a few of my thoughts, and also put him in touch with a couple people to help him figure out some technical stuff and advise him on his original plans.

Should be interesting to see how this project goes. Sounds like it's entirely cosmetic right now, which hopefully doesn't last long. The car's engine response from the factory is just awful, and would be catastrophic for a drift car. That's the very first thing I'd address if I were doing that project.

Edited by telum01 on Tuesday 31st October 12:36

macdeb

8,492 posts

254 months

Tuesday 31st October 2017
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Beefmeister said:
For the click-lazy out there.... wink

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. hurl

Cold

15,207 posts

89 months

Tuesday 31st October 2017
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macdeb said:
Beefmeister said:
For the click-lazy out there.... wink

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. hurl
Indeed. This is so much more tasteful after all:


macdeb

8,492 posts

254 months

Tuesday 31st October 2017
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Substitute the lime green for something else and it would. Factory meets 'Max-Power' magazine.

Beefmeister

16,482 posts

229 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2018
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Interesting turn of events with the BifB Aston. Wide body was abandoned, 2JZ was was ditched and now he's killed the whole idea of turning it into a drift car, thankfully.

Basically he's caught the Aston bug. Driven almost 2000 miles in it in a week and has fallen in love with the ride, the way it drives, everything. Doesn't want to ruin it by stripping the interior and putting crap suspension on it. thumbup

Still got that fugly rear wing though, hopefully that won't stay but given he drilled the bootlid I think it may have to! It just doesn't work without the wide arches. I'd actually quite like to see him put the arches on, diffuser at the back and supercharge it.

He's said he's going to turn the 2JZ BRZ into his drift car now which has always seemed the logical thing to the rest of us.

I think he'll sell the Evora now and daily the Aston. Nice to see he's fixing up an E60 M5 V10 too.

Jon39

12,782 posts

142 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2018
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Beefmeister said:
For the click-lazy out there.... wink


The first thing that I notice, are the awful screw-on after market wheel arch extensions.
The builder must presumably have glass fibre skills, so smooth rounded contoured wing reshaping, to mimic GT3 / GTE front and rear wings, would be perfect.

Very easy to spoil an overall silhouette.

Here is the GT3 shape.
( I do recognise this still from a YouTube video. Worth watching to experience the wonderful exhaust sound. A small boy standing on the pavement nearby, 'jumps out of his skin' when the engine is started. )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcaa6bYwVk










Edited by Jon39 on Wednesday 3rd January 14:18