Vantage GT4 - Smoke

[SteveZissou]

Hi

Just received this video of a Vantage GT4 where I noticed the smoke from the exhaust:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7wsrw6rsxwsoxnd/smoke.mo...

Is that excessive or just normal for a car that (probably) has fewer (if any) cats then a normal Vantage?

I'm used to Porsches that sometimes emit a cloud of smoke at start up and then settles down.

I'm going to ask the owner, but if anyone here had some insight I'd be happy to hear it.

Thanks

[Felonious]

Is it not just condensation burning off from the exhausts? Without knowing how long since the car was last started, air temperature etc it's hard to know for sure. It looks fairly innocuous, albeit to my untrained eye.

[C. Grimsley]

Looks perfectly normal to me, a car on cold start with the outside temps being low.

Carl

[SteveZissou]

Thanks!

[Jon39]

I cannot see any blue colour to the smoke, so it cannot be burnt oil.
Just normal cold engine vapour I guess. No worries.

What a beauty to own. Are you tempted, for fun on the tracks?

Edited by Jon39 on Sunday 30th December 22:17

[SteveZissou]

Hi Jon

Thanks. I have been on the hunt for an affordable N24 or GT4 for a very long time. I was so close just a few weeks ago, but the seller decided to postpone the sale about a year. After about a year of being on the hunt that was quite a setback. Out of the blue the very first GT4 I found about a year ago came back on the market, and now I am just trying to do a minimum of PPI before I rush into this one. It checks all the boxes except for some paperwork, but the seller tells me with race cars it's more about the most recent years and service than what happened 4 years ago. I reached out to the race team that ran it for 6-7 years to see what they can tell me. Either way it's going to be a bit of a gamble, but I know that going in.

I have zero experience with Astons so I am taking a dive into the deep end, but after 10+ years with "sensible" Porsches I feel like I need to get this one out of (into?) my system. The noise, the raw and focused interior and setup is in my opinion a crazy match for the aesthetics of the Vantage shape. The reason I love cars have always been because of race cars, and this car just does it for me.

Plan A is just to share it with friends and visit tracks around europe. I'm a member of a small track-day club with likeminded (mostly Lotus guys though) and I expect to do a lot of instructor hours to see if I can develop a bit as driver.

Thanks for your input!