Lots of us love a V12 Aston Martin.....

Scaf

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soprano said:
Only just found this thread! Picked this up a few weeks ago
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Beautiful - welcome to the “Sportsitalia/V12Aston” club ………. we should really hang our heads in shame u til we revert to “Maserati” but we won’t !

Have you done the secondary cat delete yet ?
 
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Scaf said:
Beautiful - welcome to the “Sportsitalia/V12Aston” club ………. we should really hang our heads in shame u til we revert to “Maserati” but we won’t !

Have you done the secondary cat delete yet ?
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Thanks chaps - although no need to hang my head in shame, I still have my GT (for sale in the forum) for the time being and I have a 4200 as well.

I have just been looking at the secondary cat delete - I think it replaces the secondary cats with the straight pipes from the S?
 
Felonious Crud

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soprano said:
Thanks chaps - although no need to hang my head in shame, I still have my GT (for sale in the forum) for the time being and I have a 4200 as well.

I have just been looking at the secondary cat delete - I think it replaces the secondary cats with the straight pipes from the S?
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Exactly that. Most places will do it but you can get actual Aston pipes for the same money as you'd pay BR or DAE to do the same thing, if you know where to look. Where are you based?

PS - if you want to go the full (but switchable) hooligan you can replace the primaries with catless manifolds and stick sports cats where the secondaries go.
 
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Felonious Crud said:
Exactly that. Most places will do it but you can get actual Aston pipes for the same money as you'd pay BR or DAE to do the same thing, if you know where to look. Where are you based?

PS - if you want to go the full (but switchable) hooligan you can replace the primaries with catless manifolds and stick sports cats where the secondaries go.
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Your Aston Martin dealership should be happy to do it for a reasonable (same as independent) fee using AM parts. Certainly Aston Martin Bristol did mine and they also do my MOTs so cannot quibble about anything missing :) Also make sure you get your original cat parts back should you ever want to or need to revert back to original. There has been talk of them going 'missing' at a certain independent.
 
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hashluck said:
Your Aston Martin dealership should be happy to do it for a reasonable (same as independent) fee using AM parts. Certainly Aston Martin Bristol did mine and they also do my MOTs so cannot quibble about anything missing :) Also make sure you get your original cat parts back should you ever want to or need to revert back to original. There has been talk of them going 'missing' at a certain independent.
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BR did my secondaries but I kept the originals. Same when they did the manifolds, I kept all of it and sold the old de-cats. Amazingly, you can fit an entire V12 exhaust system in the boot of a Vantage.

@Scaf had his secondaries done via a contact of mine at a main dealer. Like you say, nice to get original parts and some main dealer recourse if required.
 
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I did the decat about 3 weeks ago on my Vanquish also, it’s a very simple job to do. You can buy the OE AM pipes the same as fitted to the S model that has them fitted as standard. With the primary cats in place the MOT is unaffected. I also fitted a CC Charger exhaust valve controller. It allows the valves to be kept open or as OEM and again was simple to fit.

Sounds sublime, but not quite as loud as an X-piped Granturismo / QP.
 
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There’s seems to be quite a few recent Aston purchases, did you look at any other cars and the Aston came out on top or did it just have to be an Aston?
 
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breezer said:
We have a stunning DBS on auction at the moment. Was a Cat D car in 2017 (photo of the damage included - and it passed Thatcham approved HPI inspection to remove it from the register before being returned to the road), so the reserve is favourable! https://www.tradeclassics.com/auctions/aston-martin/2009-aston-martin-dbs-6/

I don't normally like silver cars, but I really think this one suits the colour!
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The DBS still looks elegant these days as well as muscular. Beautiful and it’s a manual.
 
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