Show us your toy (I nicked that one from a porsche thread)

[W1111AM]

New running gear, suspension and brakes:
Thicker Anti-roll bars
Shock absorbers
V12 springs
Brembo 320mm Racing front brakes, new rear bakes, colour coded and AM branded
New hubs and bearings
front arms
rear half shafts
New Gearbox
Rear stiffening sheer-plate
Lightweight twin plate competition clutch
custom made, equal length down pipes with collector
Large 200 cell Cats
New air-intake system
Exhaust switch (quiet, medium and dragon mode)
Radiator, alternator, AC pump, water pump (all new ancillaries)
ECU Remap
Probably missed a few other things...

[W1111AM]

Now, to make the car have understated elegance, "Savile Row meets Fire Breathing Dragon"

Rear carbon diffuser



Paint roof black - like glass (all bodywork painting was done by the man who paints the Zagato's for AML)

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First fitting of V12 Vantage s Carbon fibre front end to V8 in the country, new wheel arch liners, under tray, painted front bumper, carbon splitter and racing carbon grille









Design and cast new badge for tailgate







Fit N400 side Sills



Fit new style wiper arms





New Zagato front and rear badges

Edited by W1111AM on Sunday 1st February 19:38

[sone]

Little and Large

[priley]

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[W1111AM]

The interior, now feeling somewhat unreflective of the quality and character of what lay beneath. Plain black leather, grey sloping dash, black plastic switches, black leather gear knob, normal shaped car seats:





I came to own, a roof panel, behind seat panel and two door cards from a Vantage V12 Zagato, got them fitted.



Then approached Q at Gaydon to ask if they would supply 3 leather quilts in the Zagato Wave with silver stitch. After special consideration by the design director over my car, to my delight it was granted:



Purchase two carbon fibre seats





Off to Aston Martin Works - Trim Shop, to get the Zagato Wave a Quilts tailored to fit a new lightweight parcel shelf, rework the centre arm rest, completely re-design the carbon fibre seats into new generation V12 Vantage V12s seats. Applying new Semi-Aniline leather hides to the seats with black Alcantara applied to the sides and light grey alcantara applied to rear of seats to match the headlining surround. Two metal AM badges to be fitted into the new seat patterns, front and rear of seats.















Take dash panels out paint black with Zagato paint shop. Fit clear glass switches, fit new V12 Vantage Gear knob. Vintage Zagato badge.





The final outcome

[footsoldier]

W1111AM - that is a great piece of work - hope you are keeping it as not many will fully appreciate the work that's gone in.

Here's my contribution to thread...

[paddy328]

Now that's a proper car lift.

[Lambchopski]

That Aston transformation is incredible. What a beauty

[K50 DEL]

Lambchopski said:

That Aston transformation is incredible. What a beauty

Isn't it just, what a stunning looking car....
The mercenary side of me can't help but wonder what the total investment is though..... with the works being done that well I'm sure the final figure is scary!

[cc8s]

W1111AM - what a project: You have done some incredible work on it! How does the driving experience compare, before and after?

Footsoldier - how do you get the Countach and SLS out? If those lifts have not been lowered for the picture then neither the SLS nor Countach could open their doors!

[footsoldier]

It goes up....

[Cerberaherts]

footsoldier said:

W1111AM - that is a great piece of work - hope you are keeping it as not many will fully appreciate the work that's gone in.

Here's my contribution to thread...

Amazing collection, and love that lift!

[IMIA]

W1111AM said:

The interior, now feeling somewhat unreflective of the quality and character of what lay beneath. Plain black leather, grey sloping dash, black plastic switches, black leather gear knob, normal shaped car seats:





I came to own, a roof panel, behind seat panel and two door cards from a Vantage V12 Zagato, got them fitted.



Then approached Q at Gaydon to ask if they would supply 3 leather quilts in the Zagato Wave with silver stitch. After special consideration by the design director over my car, to my delight it was granted:



Purchase two carbon fibre seats





Off to Aston Martin Works - Trim Shop, to get the Zagato Wave a Quilts tailored to fit a new lightweight parcel shelf, rework the centre arm rest, completely re-design the carbon fibre seats into new generation V12 Vantage V12s seats. Applying new Semi-Aniline leather hides to the seats with black Alcantara applied to the sides and light grey alcantara applied to rear of seats to match the headlining surround. Two metal AM badges to be fitted into the new seat patterns, front and rear of seats.















Take dash panels out paint black with Zagato paint shop. Fit clear glass switches, fit new V12 Vantage Gear knob. Vintage Zagato badge.





The final outcome

Fabulous attention to detail. End result is absolutely stunning. I've carried out something similar with my 997 but with nowhere near the attention to detail you've gone to. In a perfect world I'd add carbon bucket seats, remove rear seats, carbon roof, carbon bonnet, carbon front wings, carbon rear wings and carbon brakes. Saves 150kg of weight. We should perhaps ask a magazine to independently test them back to back to show what you can do with a £30-40k donor car!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[kbooker]

W1111AM...Fantastic work!
Footsoilder...I want your lift

[Matt_N]

There's modifying a car and then there's modifying a car.

Wow.

[Davey S2]

sone said:

Little and Large

That's a great 2 car garage.

[W111AAM]

footsoldier said:

W1111AM - that is a great piece of work - hope you are keeping it as not many will fully appreciate the work that's gone in.

Here's my contribution to thread...

Could you please let me know where you got that lift from. Looking at the moment at options. Cheers.

[W1111AM]

Thanks guys for all the nice comments

footsoldier said:

W1111AM - that is a great piece of work - hope you are keeping it as not many will fully appreciate the work that's gone in.

Nice Double Platform Sir!! Yes, it's a keeper as they say, the spend is too high for return I think. Although interestingly Byron International have valued it - they blew me away with the value they have placed the car.

Lambchopski said:

That Aston transformation is incredible. What a beauty

Thanks

K50 DEL said:

Isn't it just, what a stunning looking car....
The mercenary side of me can't help but wonder what the total investment is though..... with the works being done that well I'm sure the final figure is scary!

Yes, scarey, but unique and now priceless to me

cc8s said:

W1111AM - what a project: You have done some incredible work on it! How does the driving experience compare, before and after?

Footsoldier - how do you get the Countach and SLS out? If those lifts have not been lowered for the picture then neither the SLS nor Countach could open their doors!

Well the sound and performance are just not comparable to the old car. There is no resemblance in feel or sound. Driving it I feel alive and my heart pounds with excitement when my right foot hits the pedal. A silly grin then decorates my face.
Also remembering here, that this is IMHO the only Gaydon production AM Chassis that is a true sports car (due to length and weight) and not a GT, this allows the deliverance and handling. The performance (as tested at Spa and Silverstone) is somewhere between a V12 Vantage and a V12s Vantage. Faster than a new DBS with 200 cell Cats (have a couple of friends with these). It is obviously not the fastest car, but in my World, TeaSpn is epic

IMIA said:

Fabulous attention to detail. End result is absolutely stunning. I've carried out something similar with my 997 but with nowhere near the attention to detail you've gone to. In a perfect world I'd add carbon bucket seats, remove rear seats, carbon roof, carbon bonnet, carbon front wings, carbon rear wings and carbon brakes. Saves 150kg of weight. We should perhaps ask a magazine to independently test them back to back to show what you can do with a £30-40k donor car!

Thank you Sir! Great project with your Porsche 997! I wonder that a magazine would be interested in something like this, don't they only like glossy production cars?

Matt_N said:

There's modifying a car and then there's modifying a car.
Wow.

There is indeed, maybe obsession is a good word to describe what happened, maybe I need my head seeing too

[cc8s]

footsoldier said:

It goes up....

[W1111AM]

Are there other head-cases around like me ?

Anyone else got a project they can share?

BTW paddy328 did a top job on TeaSpn, applied the new G-Tech Serum, it looks like glass, the depth on the paint is beautiful. He applied the serum to the HRE wheels too, and the black interior centre console panels.

Then had the front end (full wings and bonnet, including Carbon Grille and Carbon Splitter), plus the black gloss roof (for bird st defence) done at PaintSheild. They applied the new 2nd Generation Suntek self-healing film. It is a truly amazing product.



You can just see the film not folded over the edge of the bonnet here:



Finished Suntek Film applied