New Performance Options Available for 4.3 litre V8 Vantage

[noble3r]

Has anyone had any luck with getting prices through there local dealer?

[GPM3D]

Yea - no problems, I just contacted the Service Dept at Stratstones (Wilmslow)and got a price and full spec sheet emailed straight back to me. Cost - circa £3k in VAT.
There are 2 parts kits depending on chassis number.
Graham

[whoami]

Yes,

IIRC JCT600 in Leeds quoted me £2650.

[codieskid]

Are these prices including the fitting of the kit?

I found a site last week that was selling the upgrade kits for under £2k but i can't remember for the life of me the name of the company.

Also for those that haven't seen this i found the aston martin power kit brochure here:
http://www.lfsc.com/contentimages/media/8d9091f4bc...

Trev

[whoami]

codieskid said:

Are these prices including the fitting of the kit?

I found a site last week that was selling the upgrade kits for under £2k but i can't remember for the life of me the name of the company.

Also for those that haven't seen this i found the aston martin power kit brochure here:
http://www.lfsc.com/contentimages/media/8d9091f4bc...

Trev

Yes, fitted.

[codieskid]

Bingo found it. HWM do the kit for £1993.30 inc vat. I read somewhere that the fitting time for the kit would be around 6 hours, does this sound about right?

http://www.hwmastonmartin.co.uk/parts/aston-martin...



Trev

[whoami]

Correct, they told me that it took about 6 hours to fit.

[rickdms]

prices and labour times are correct, any dealer and some specialists can supply at this price, fitting requires aston martin diagnostic equipment, there is also a sports pack as well, with new shockabsorbers, uprated spring, new lower arms, new wheels and new antiroll bar bushes, Kit price is £4076.00

[bogie]

looks like a fair price, and a damn site better way of making 20bhp than a dody remap onto 98ROn only or "claims" from a free-flow exhaust

[noble3r]

whoami said:

Yes,

IIRC JCT600 in Leeds quoted me £2650.

so is that £1995 fitted or £2650????

if indeed you did buy the free flow cats as well for £1500 from larini this would make for a great upgrade.

[rick-dms-]

the kit is £1995 with 6 hours labour on top.

[whoami]

c£2650 was the fitted price IIRC. This would fit in with c6 hours labour on top of the £2K for the parts.

Edited by whoami on Monday 19th January 11:49

[Lucozade]

I started a similar topic but nobody bothered to reply. The Prodrive upgrades are now cheaper than before and IMHO making them much more appealing. Tempted to go for the engine upgrade ASAP. Dealer confirmed that Prodrive will honour your warranty too. The Aston engine upgrade is £2500 + VAT and gives 20bhp more (ECU remap and induction flaps I believe):

PRICES (ALL PRICES INCLUDE FITTING AND EXCLUDE VAT):

Engine Upgrade to 425 BHP £3,908.00 (old price £5309.79)
Inc: Re-mapped ECU, exhaust switch and free flow catalysts

Suspension £4,274.81 (old price £4749.79)
Inc: Bilstein remote driver adjustable electronic dampers x 4,
Eibach road springs x 4. Fully optimised suspension geometry re-set

Wheels and tyres £3,060.00 (old price £3400)
Inc: Exclusive Prodrive forged alloy pattern 2 off 8.5’’x19’’, 2 off
10’’x19’’ and 2 x Pirelli PZero Corsa Direzionale 245/40zr19 2 x
Pirelli PZero Assimmetrico 385/35/zr19 Hi speed dynamic balance
and valves. With tyre pressure monitoring, where fitted, add £ 270

Aero Pack £2249.61 (old price £2499.57)
Inc: Carbon fibre composite front lip spoiler / splitter and boot
mounted rear lip spoiler.

[noble3r]

Having looked at what prodrive offer its only served too confuse me even more

http://www.nicholasmee.co.uk/pdf/V8%20Vantage%20br...

There engine upgrades are basically just a remap, free flow cats and not forgetting a switch to manually open and close the exhaust valve.
All this adds up to 425BHP....Hmmmmmm

Now at least the official Aston upgrade involves changing internals etc

They seem to be 2 completely different packages


Charging £2300 for the aero pack has put the biggest smile on my face for a long time. it buys you 2 strips of carbon fibre haha

Edited by noble3r on Monday 19th January 18:35

[Murph7355]

noble3r said:

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Now at least the official Aston upgrade involves changing internals etc ..

I don't think they do.

I think the plenum's painted black (not sure if there are any other mods to it), the airboxes are changed and the ECU's remapped.

Essentially it's doing similar types of thing to the Prodrive stuff, just subbing intake "work" with exhaust "work".

I wonder what might happen if you did the intake changes AND the exhaust mods and mapped for those...

[rick-dms-]

your right murph most of the changes are the valved airboxes, the fuse box is replaced just to allow the ecu to control the valves, and the ecu remapped to make best use of the extra airflow. this combined with a sports exhaust, which will also increase bhp (how much who really knows), and has the extra benefit of weight saving, add the sports pack wheels which gives a further weight saving, some 200 cell cats (maybe), combine this with the full sports pack to improve handling as well. now that would make a very special car. Two days work and £10000.00 should cover the lot. don't sound to bad if you say it quick.

[Murph7355]

I wonder why neither company worked on both ends of the breathing though. Wouldn't have added horrifically to the cost of development and might have tweaked another 10-15bhp out it (440bhp sounds better than 425bhp).

Possibly didn't yield anything?

[codieskid]

While I am sure Aston could have produced a more powerful upgrade kit to 420bhp+ surely that would have upset a few 4.7 owners knowing that the 4.3 could be upgraded to be more powerful than their car.

If it was me, I'd go for the Aston upgrade to 400bhp then look at an aftermarket companies to replace the exhaust and cats

Scuderia systems fit tubi exhausts with a claimed 10bhp gain and replace paramount performance claim that replacement cats will see a 20bhp gain.

Total = 430bhp and one great sounding aston

Trev

[noble3r]

Trev I agree, going for the Aston upgrade and then sports cats would certainly be the upgrade to do. I guess it would make sense to have the high flow sports cats fitted first before the Aston upgrade because of the ECU being re-mapped.

[MADT350]

i'm very tempted with that upgrade....i think staying with genuine AM parts is the way to go.......

who's going to be the first?...