The 2008 Vantage I just bought came with a modified exhaust system but I don't know which one. What does the stock muffler look like? What other mods can be made to the exhaust that would cost close to $5K. The dealer who is a friend told me about the exhaust mod, after the deal was closed so he wasn't trying to hype the car. It sounds good from start-up and you can hear me coming from two blocks away.

 

What does the stock muffler look like? Mine is a nice looking cylinder made of stainless steel. It is not oblong like the custom ones I have seen on the net. So is the stock muffler cylinder/round shaped or is it biger and oblong shaped????

 

Does it look like this???

 

Pitbull,

Your car probably has the Quicksilver exhaust if it looks like this:



or still the OEM exhaust if it's like this:

Could not find a picture.... still looking.

 

It looks like this one. Is that a stock exhaust? If this is a stock exhaust muffler what would the previous owner of spent $5K on if he put a custom exhaust system on the car or is my friend the dealer mistaken??? Thanks for your help.

 

You my friend are the proud owner of an RSC tuning exhaust system. Depending upon where you bought the car from and which dealer it was originally at, I would say you've probably got our Supersports system (the louder of our two).

 

Thanks it does sound like the one you posted on the other thread. Very cool. The car came from Tampa, bought new at the Tampa Aston dealer.

 

Yup, makes perfect sense! Hope you enjoy it! Our Vantage has got 200 cell cats on it as well which give it a bit of a deeper, more raw sound but the basic accoustics should be the same.

 

LOL - your other car isn't a bike is it?

 

I got under mine and it looks like I also have your cat's So if the previous owner spend between $5-7K on your system what else might I have. It does feel really fast. How much more HP could I have over stock?

 

Now that does surprise me because I know we never sent a set of cats to Aston of Tampa. Possible that the previous owner bought them direct and had them installed elsewhere. If you have cats + an exhaust I'd say you're probably running between 20-25 bhp above stock. If the previous owner had the ECU reprogrammed then as well then you're looking at 60.

If you want to know whether the cats have been done and which ones they are post a pic up and I can ID them for you.

If you want to check whether the ECU has been reprogrammed then I can speak with the Techs at your local dealer and tell them how to check.

If you don't have either done then you should - sounds absolutely wicked with cats & ECU done and goes like **** off a shovel!

 

Thanks, I am taking it in for the annual service in 2 weeks I will take a pic of the cat's at that time. I don't know if I want to advertise changes to the ECU to the dealer because of warranty issues . I do know that it is very fast and sounds great. I will drive a new 2009 with the 4.7 when at the dealer and see how it compares. Again thanks for your help.

 

PitbullSL500 - I would love to hear about a little race between your car and the 2009 ....

If your car came from Tampa ... call Tom Heinz (at AM of Tampa) and he can tell you what is on the car ... as in if the dealership did the work and what was done. You will get a straight answer.

 

Thanks I will call him, there is also a authorized dealer - C2 Design Tampa- that I will also check with.

 

pitbullsl500 -
C2 Design - Chris (813) 223-3744 (the owner) - is an independant shop in Tampa. I have used them and they are great ! It is possile they put the stuff on your car - esp. if it is RSC stuff - Chris knows HZ at RSC down in Miami.