V8 Engine Upgrades: Evolved Performance for V8 Vantage

Manufactured to motorsport standards our secondary catalysts are more efficient, gas flow-optimised and constructed with high quality 200 cell bricks for better performance.

The catalysts are offered in either baffled or unbaffled style so you can tune your V8 Vantages exhaust note to taste. The catalysts are more efficient, gas flow-optimised and constructed with high quality 200 cell bricks optimised for better performance. The catalysts are offered for delivery in either baffled or unbaffled style so you can tune your V8 Vantages exhaust note to taste.

The Bamford Rose airbox upgrade offers a modification to your Vantages airbox to improve airflow to the engine; helping it breathe more effectively at higher revs delivering c+10BHP.

The modification is similar to that used in the Vantage N400, which the team at Bamford Rose helped develop during their time at Aston Martin. It is however passively vented not valved as that airbox is. As an added benefit the airbox modification also slightly enhances the aural characteristics of the V8 engine adding a subtle menacing edge throughout the rev range.

Manufactured to motorsport standards our secondary catalysts are more efficient, gas flow-optimised and constructed with high quality 200 cell bricks for better performance.

The catalysts are offered in either baffled or unbaffled style so you can tune your V8 Vantages exhaust note to taste. The catalysts are more efficient, gas flow-optimised and constructed with high quality 200 cell bricks optimised for better performance. The catalysts are offered for delivery in either baffled or unbaffled style so you can tune your V8 Vantages exhaust note to taste.

The Bamford Rose airbox upgrade offers a modification to your Vantages airbox to improve airflow to the engine; helping it breathe more effectively at higher revs delivering c+10BHP.

The modification is similar to that used in the Vantage N400, which the team at Bamford Rose helped develop during their time at Aston Martin. It is however passively vented not valved as that airbox is. As an added benefit the airbox modification also slightly enhances the aural characteristics of the V8 engine adding a subtle menacing edge throughout the rev range.

One of the largest compromises made to get the Aston Martin V8 Vantage into production, one very familiar to Bamford Rose team members working on the factory car programme at the time, was to use a “made to a price” manifold that fulfilled all global emissions standards.

This factory exhaust manifold fitted to both 4.3 and 4.7 V8 Vantage, whilst cost-effective for the factory is horrifically gas-flow restrictive, significantly compromising performance.

The handmade Bamford Rose sports exhaust package recovers the performance loss introduced by the compromised OEM part, delivering improvements to both power and torque and an engine which pulls considerably stronger over the entire rev range until the redline. The improvement in gas flow also allows better flywheel performance – the car revs much more freely and quickly to the redline. Finally, an additional benefit is that these bespoke manifolds are a significant 18 kg lighter than the factory versions.

Bamford Rose has achieved substantial performance gains by paying meticulous attention to design and manufacture detail of the manifold. The standard 4-2-1 factory manifold has been significantly improved by introducing:

• Tuned equal length primary pipes of 4-1 construction.
• A Bespoke Bamford Rose designed sequential collector cone enabling uncompromised exhaust gas scavenging.
• Higher quality, 2mm gauge 316-grade stainless steel pipework with laser cut flanges.
• Ensuring that all joints and bends in the manifold are fully purge-welded
• (a gas is used to protect the weld seam until it has cooled to the point that oxidation does not occur, thus prevents cracking, corrosion and deformation).

As part of our uncompromising development approach, the manifold and complete exhaust system have been arduously tested around the world-famous Millbrook proving ground circuit. This durability testing created a thermal cycle which would accelerate the onset of any potential error state modes such as cracking. The durability has been further proven under road mileage accumulation tests where city driving, motorway cruising or spirited country lane driving have all been tested to make certain no error states occur as a result of the new manifold.

The original OEM manifold design incorporated a big primary catalyst to pollutants created at low speeds/revs. This catalyst is very gas restrictive and at high revs, it would overheat of it wasn’t for the ECU being configured to run the engine very rich.

As part of Bamford Roses comprehensive engineering of this upgrade, the ECU is also recalibrated to remove the previous need to run the engine rich and protect the primary catalyst. The ECU calibration can be returned to the optimum for best power. Which result not only in better performance but better efficiency. This results in improvements in fuel efficiency. In the real world 17-22 mpg would be typical for the car; obviously dependant on driving style; with the upgrade 26-29 mpg is a more typical real-world figure. So with Bamford Rose not only do you get extra power but better efficiency too.

The Bamford Rose airbox upgrade offers a modification to your Vantages airbox to improve airflow to the engine; helping it breathe more effectively at higher revs delivering c+10BHP.

The modification is similar to that used in the Vantage N400, which the team at Bamford Rose helped develop during their time at Aston Martin. It is however passively vented not valved as that airbox is. As an added benefit the airbox modification also slightly enhances the aural characteristics of the V8 engine adding a subtle menacing edge throughout the rev range.

Manufactured to motorsport standards our secondary catalysts are more efficient, gas flow-optimised and constructed with high quality 200 cell bricks for better performance.

The catalysts are offered in either baffled or unbaffled style so you can tune your V8 Vantages exhaust note to taste. The catalysts are more efficient, gas flow-optimised and constructed with high quality 200 cell bricks optimised for better performance. The catalysts are offered for delivery in either baffled or unbaffled style so you can tune your V8 Vantages exhaust note to taste.

The Bamford Rose airbox upgrade offers a modification to your Vantages airbox to improve airflow to the engine; helping it breathe more effectively at higher revs delivering c+10BHP.

The modification is similar to that used in the Vantage N400, which the team at Bamford Rose helped develop during their time at Aston Martin. It is however passively vented not valved as that airbox is. As an added benefit the airbox modification also slightly enhances the aural characteristics of the V8 engine adding a subtle menacing edge throughout the rev range.

Manufactured to motorsport standards our secondary catalysts are more efficient, gas flow-optimised and constructed with high quality 200 cell bricks for better performance.

The catalysts are offered in either baffled or unbaffled style so you can tune your V8 Vantages exhaust note to taste. The catalysts are more efficient, gas flow-optimised and constructed with high quality 200 cell bricks optimised for better performance. The catalysts are offered for delivery in either baffled or unbaffled style so you can tune your V8 Vantages exhaust note to taste.

The Bamford Rose airbox upgrade offers a modification to your Vantages airbox to improve airflow to the engine; helping it breathe more effectively at higher revs delivering c+10BHP.

The modification is similar to that used in the Vantage N400, which the team at Bamford Rose helped develop during their time at Aston Martin. It is however passively vented not valved as that airbox is. As an added benefit the airbox modification also slightly enhances the aural characteristics of the V8 engine adding a subtle menacing edge throughout the rev range.

One of the largest compromises made to get the Aston Martin V8 Vantage into production, one very familiar to Bamford Rose team members working on the factory car programme at the time, was to use a “made to a price” manifold that fulfilled all global emissions standards.

This factory exhaust manifold fitted to both 4.3 and 4.7 V8 Vantage, whilst cost-effective for the factory is horrifically gas-flow restrictive, significantly compromising performance.

The handmade Bamford Rose sports exhaust package recovers the performance loss introduced by the compromised OEM part, delivering improvements to both power and torque and an engine which pulls considerably stronger over the entire rev range until the redline. The improvement in gas flow also allows better flywheel performance – the car revs much more freely and quickly to the redline. Finally, an additional benefit is that these bespoke manifolds are a significant 18 kg lighter than the factory versions.

Bamford Rose has achieved substantial performance gains by paying meticulous attention to design and manufacture detail of the manifold. The standard 4-2-1 factory manifold has been significantly improved by introducing:

• Tuned equal length primary pipes of 4-1 construction.
• A Bespoke Bamford Rose designed sequential collector cone enabling uncompromised exhaust gas scavenging.
• Higher quality, 2mm gauge 316-grade stainless steel pipework with laser cut flanges.
• Ensuring that all joints and bends in the manifold are fully purge-welded
• (a gas is used to protect the weld seam until it has cooled to the point that oxidation does not occur, thus prevents cracking, corrosion and deformation).

As part of our uncompromising development approach, the manifold and complete exhaust system have been arduously tested around the world-famous Millbrook proving ground circuit. This durability testing created a thermal cycle which would accelerate the onset of any potential error state modes such as cracking. The durability has been further proven under road mileage accumulation tests where city driving, motorway cruising or spirited country lane driving have all been tested to make certain no error states occur as a result of the new manifold.

The original OEM manifold design incorporated a big primary catalyst to pollutants created at low speeds/revs. This catalyst is very gas restrictive and at high revs, it would overheat of it wasn’t for the ECU being configured to run the engine very rich.

As part of Bamford Roses comprehensive engineering of this upgrade, the ECU is also recalibrated to remove the previous need to run the engine rich and protect the primary catalyst. The ECU calibration can be returned to the optimum for best power. Which result not only in better performance but better efficiency. This results in improvements in fuel efficiency. In the real world 17-22 mpg would be typical for the car; obviously dependant on driving style; with the upgrade 26-29 mpg is a more typical real-world figure. So with Bamford Rose not only do you get extra power but better efficiency too.