Flew out to Boise to look at mine, bought it, had it shipped home. He sent the title as soon as my wire cleared so I could register and pay sales tax before it got here. Would have loved to drive it, but 2700 miles is just too far, in a car with 5900 miles [especially after finding out it needed a clutch the day after I got it].

 

Do you have a link to a for sale thread?

 

Ouch, the car needed a clutch after 6k miles? Sorry to hear

 

Amg
I am currently in a transaction with Timothy on the car. I'm pretty confident he is going to be the new owner and I'm happy for him and excited that the car is going to someone looking so forward to having it. I will reach out to you if plans change.

 

10-4. Good luck to you both!

 

holy crap, was it a manual or the sportshift?

 

Well where do I start---
I emailed with a guy for months, with him showing me pictures and explaining the history of the DB9, how rare it was (6-speed w/contrast stitching and Black on Black), and what extras it had. I worked out a fair price for the vehicle and wrote the check and arranged a bit of financing, the lender went to see the car, and then we finalized it.

Then arranged shipping for the car from sellers location, to REDPANTs (TELUM01) location and started ordering in V Collection CF parts and many other items for Rich to install. Within 3 weeks all the parts showed up but no car

Car is now located with Rich and the parts coming together nicely. But I have never seen the car. At least you guys have gotten to touch yours. But in 9 days, I will be back from Afghanistan for a month and get to drive it immediately 500 miles home.

Cant wait, OH and a special thanks to SpeedRacer800 for selling the car to me, even though he didnt want to really sell it.

 

That was my biggest fear with the car, given the repair costs. When I did the test drive, I paid special attention to the clutch and made sure to put some torque through it in a higher gear to make sure it didn't slip at all (generally, lugging the engine isn't a good thing, but it's really the only way to test for slippage on a clutch that otherwise feels fine... fortunately, the cars produce plenty of low-end torque, so I wasn't too concerned about hurting the engine).

 

Bought mine from CA (O'gara) and had it shipped to GA. Didn't have a chance to go out and look in person, but it was the color combo I wanted, had all the options, and was priced right. Got a PPI and now 2+ years later, couldn't be happier.

 

It's a stick. The car was owned by a billionaire and either he wasn't really adept at a stick, or he was driving it too hard with the traction control on. Which is very possible. Supposedly this was the only sports car he owned and he bought it on a whim. The 5 year service showed the rear brakes at 5mm, fronts at 8. So the traction control was working overtime keeping the rears from spinning, which just burns up the clutch. Although as we all know riding it is just as bad.


In fairness Daniel Craigs girlfriend [the producer he was living with before leaving for the set one day and never coming home [supposedly she went out and spent a cool mil on his black card in revenge]] evidently drove the car a fair bit and she definitely could have ridden the clutch. The edge of the seat is a little chewed from pulling the parking brake, so the driver would have had to have short legs for the seat to be that far up and nails long enough to chew the leather, pointing to a woman, definitely doesn't sound like Craig, and Belluzzo is 6'4" and his wife never drove the car [couldn't drive a stick]


At any rate I got hoodwinked a bit when I flew out for the test drive. The sellers "agent" asked for my license and my insurance card before the test drive. Insurance card?! WTF takes their insurance card to check a car from a "dealer"?! So he only allowed me to drive the car a few miles. He was like a hawk and I only jumped on the gas once but it was in a lower gear. I had every plan to drive it for 1/2 hour minimum, highway, around town, stress test, but this little rouse threw me off my game [when it should have made me extremely suspicious [actually I was just pissed that he knew I just flew 2700 miles to test drive a car and never said a word about bringing an insurance card!!]] and considering I had about 3 hours sleep before the trip, mental acuity wasn't the strongest when I was with the car. I had my very long checklist, but what didn't get done was to really stress test it to check the clutch, and it bit me in the ***.


At the time I was most paranoid about lifting damage under the car, which was perfect, a hair of seepage from the timing cover, it had some bugs [steering wheel had to be aligned, nuts from the door pulls in both doors loose and rattling around, it needed a full service as it had been 2 years [he'd only driven it 100 miles so who can blame him for missing the service] and it needed a full sorting.


Had the Velocity clutch put in and when I got home there is chatter at low rpm under stress [like driving in very slow traffic]. Stuart tells me it should make no noise, the tech says he called Stuart about it after he put the clutch in and he told him it was normal and to just see if I noticed anything. Kinda hard not to notice, but still claimed it shouldn't make any noise, so drove it back up the 110 miles to have the tech listen to it and he told me the story about calling Stuart, him saying it was normal, and that he'd call me about it, which he didn't and just kept telling me by email it shouldn't make any noise. I'd love for anybody else that's had the V12 clutch put in verify if they have any clutch chatter from engagement to 2200rpm where it disappears, but doesn't matter what gear it's in, under 2200 and on gas [under stress] it chatters [or growls, or whatever you want to call it]. It's not LOUD, but if the radio is off you can clearly hear it and it's not exactly quit either. If the radio is on, or with fuse 22 pulled, or upgraded exhaust, or you never spend any time in traffic at 1700rpm,you might not hear it at all unless you're listening for it.


But the car is sorted to drive, except the last thing to do is, it stalls while sitting at idle. It's done it about 5 times now in the 2000 miles I've driven it. Service has a call in to the rep to see if the refresh that fixed the ASM stalling would have any affect on this one. Stay tuned.

 

Hey everyone, my book arrived today! Thanks for the suggestions in getting it!

 

I have Stuart's LW Flywheel and the V12 clutch all from Velocity AP. I too noticed chatter while at idle but believed it was due to the lightweight flywheel. I had a tune done to raise my idle to 1k and it's mostly gone. Really like the performance with the new flywheel, especially in gears 1-3

 

I too have noticed my steering wheel is slightly off alignment, did you just get a full car alignment to resolve this or was there something else that was done?

 

The chatter at idle, clutch out, not in gear, that's from the slop in the gearbox which the lightweight flywheel makes chatter more, and quite random. Just the AC compressor coming on will start or stop it.


I'm talking about low rpm, between clutch engagement and 2200rpm, only on gas. when not on gas, no noise, when on gas it growls [chatters, whatever]. It doesn't happen thru engagement, only after the clutch is fully engaged, and only up to 2200. Doesn't matter what gear, 2nd, 3rd, as long as it's under 2200 rpm it makes a noise, and it's definitely coming from the area of the clutch.


Not that it doesn't feel fantastic and the pedal feel is wonderful, but, the chatter is disconcerting. I've had sticks for 40 years and I don't remember any of them doing this.




I'm not positive but I assumed it was just a front end alignment [although I remember the writer saying something about it being more complicated than you'd think, I read that as code for we're just justifying a high price]. At $500 it could have been more, but having the wheel straight makes a huge difference mentally behind the wheel. Worth every penny.

 

$500 for a front end alignment?? you're kidding right? was that at the dealer?