So what have you done with your Aston today?

So what have you done with your Aston today?

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peteA

2,681 posts

234 months

Monday 27th November 2017
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Washed mine and put it away for the winter by the looks of the weather and seeing the gritting truck out and about 🙁

Mr.Tremlini

1,465 posts

101 months

Tuesday 28th November 2017
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Not that any one cares, as there is a new Vantage to discuss... but I had this carbon N420 diffuser stuck on my 4.3 today. I decided I probably wanted one of these since shortly after I bought the car, and along with the carbon strakes and mirror caps, and general de-chroming I`ve done, me likey!






Bincenzo

2,606 posts

179 months

Tuesday 28th November 2017
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Fantastic Dean!

Graze01

1,044 posts

92 months

Tuesday 28th November 2017
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Looks good Dean

cant justify the expense on mine as I dont see it as a long term keeper (got V12 itch)

but understand why you did it

they are beautiful cars

Graeme

Manx V8V

482 posts

82 months

Tuesday 28th November 2017
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mrpseudonym said:
The first photo is Hyde Park in central Sydney. Each car club was provided with a separate departure location. The next two pics are at the racetrack itself Sydney Motorsport Park (formerly known as Eastern Creek)

Edited to add: the third photo is a bunch of Astons behind a Volvo pace car. Laps later in the day got faster smile


Edited by mrpseudonym on Monday 27th November 08:30
Thought it looked like Eastern Creek, but wasn't sure, I didn't know they had changed the name.

dbs2000

2,689 posts

192 months

Wednesday 29th November 2017
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Mr.Tremlini said:
Not that any one cares, as there is a new Vantage to discuss... but I had this carbon N420 diffuser stuck on my 4.3 today. I decided I probably wanted one of these since shortly after I bought the car, and along with the carbon strakes and mirror caps, and general de-chroming I`ve done, me likey!



You should change your occupation to "good photographer". Great shots as always.

J12KJR

2,860 posts

243 months

Wednesday 29th November 2017
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dbs2000 said:
You should change your occupation to "good photographer". Great shots as always.
Only "good" I think you do him a disservice David smile

dbs2000

2,689 posts

192 months

Thursday 30th November 2017
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Probably so smile Maybe "pretty good" wink

RichB

51,592 posts

284 months

Thursday 30th November 2017
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Collected her from Davron following some minor fettling and an MOT test. smile


David W.

1,911 posts

209 months

Thursday 30th November 2017
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RichB said:
Collected her from Davron following some minor fettling and an MOT test. smile

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David W.

1,911 posts

209 months

Thursday 30th November 2017
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Collected my 4.3 from Bamford Rose. New dual plate clutch, throttle remap, switchable Bilstein shocks and a MKII steering rack. It now drives like it should have out of the factory. Delicate direct steering, responsive accelerator and faster engine spool up and down, lighter clutch with a friendly bite point, compliant ride that does not jolt the cabin and shake your fillings out over cats eyes and country road bumps, BLISS.
DW

TR-Spider

305 posts

78 months

Friday 1st December 2017
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David W. said:
Collected my 4.3 from Bamford Rose. New dual plate clutch, throttle remap, switchable Bilstein shocks and a MKII steering rack. It now drives like it should have out of the factory. Delicate direct steering, responsive accelerator and faster engine spool up and down, lighter clutch with a friendly bite point, compliant ride that does not jolt the cabin and shake your fillings out over cats eyes and country road bumps, BLISS.
DW
Interessting, I thought of going a similar path with my 4.3.
Could you elaborate on how the switchable Bilstein dampers work/feel?
I suppose they have a soft setting - how does that compare to a post 09 standard bilstein damper?

Thomas

Ken Figenus

5,707 posts

117 months

Friday 1st December 2017
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RichB said:
Collected her from Davron following some minor fettling and an MOT test. smile

Looking beautiful as ever Rich. Do you still have to MOT her - thought they did away with that for very classic cars?

RichB

51,592 posts

284 months

Friday 1st December 2017
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Ken Figenus said:
Looking beautiful as ever Rich. Do you still have to MOT her - thought they did away with that for very classic cars?
Thanks Ken. Regards the MOT, no, but I like to have it done because for £45 it provides a continuous paper trace of mileage for future owners. I have the MOTs going back 40 years to 1976 so it seems a good idea to keep it up.

Mr.Tremlini

1,465 posts

101 months

Friday 1st December 2017
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dbs2000 said:
Probably so smile Maybe "pretty good" wink
Cheers, I`ll take it! :-)

David W.

1,911 posts

209 months

Friday 1st December 2017
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TR-Spider said:
Interessting, I thought of going a similar path with my 4.3.
Could you elaborate on how the switchable Bilstein dampers work/feel?
I suppose they have a soft setting - how does that compare to a post 09 standard bilstein damper?

Thomas
They have Comfort, Auto (programmable) and Sport/Track, switchable by an app. BR set mine up on Auto and saved the profile, that suits me well so I doubt I’ll need to switch to other settings. Best give BR Mike a ring.
DW

Minglar

1,229 posts

123 months

Saturday 2nd December 2017
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Fitted new carbon fibre tread plates and new sill plaques too. Thanks to Tony for the sill plaques. They have no screw holes and look great! Also, considerably cheaper than the price AM quoted me. Having some trouble uploading pictures but will do so as soon as I can.

Best Regards

Minglar



mrteegrassgill

155 posts

126 months

Sunday 3rd December 2017
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New house. New garage....

markiep1

183 posts

136 months

Monday 4th December 2017
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mrteegrassgill said:
New house. New garage....
WOW that is fantastic coolsmile

mrteegrassgill

155 posts

126 months

Monday 4th December 2017
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markiep1 said:
WOW that is fantastic coolsmile
Thankyou

Previous owner raced classic F1 cars.... It's an amazing space. Just need to get it tidied up.


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