Thank you Luis. We used Weber specialists Pierce Manifolds: Pierce Manifolds 321 Kishimura Dr Gilroy, CA 95020 (408) 842-6667 [email protected] They can tell you about the finish exactly, or perform it for you.
Luis FWIW the 44 DCNFs came back to us like this Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Assembled with gaskets & hardware. A pity all this will be hidden beneath the air-box. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
In lieu of the arrival of newly-molded P7s, I am considering using a nice set of original P7s that have been properly stored and remain supple, for the running-in and showing phase, post-restoration. If the new P7s are further delayed, I may have to deploy a second set of wheels with PZeros mounted for speed work. More to follow on this topic. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
German-registered Downdraft (mis-identified by the photographer as an LP500S) Image Unavailable, Please Login
The same DD above is seen here on the Grande Giro a few years ago [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk2MdG4r57c[/ame]
Reinhold's car, I fixed/detected the broken fuse at Bologna's main place where the official mechanical support of the Giro failed to find the course...
I was also advertised for sale that time by Turbo-Car-Trade GmbH, 22 Emmenweg,4223 Blauen Schweiz. The cover above the carbs was painted red, their Pictures were from Bruno Wyss' Garage in Zofingen ~2010/11.
This has probably been addressed somewhere but I just wanted to ask for a quick confirmation that the ONLY formal red for a QV worldwide is 2.464.022 Rosso Siviglia?
This is one much-enjoyed Downdraft this year, spotted all over the UK, and now, down in the South of France a few days ago, Saint-Tropez to be precise... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Joe any idea who the owner is of the white QV above? This car has been on my hit list for a while. But not had any leads. Cheers Rob
Steve Anderson used his illustration of our car for his Ferruccio Lamborghini tribute. "A man who was known to roll up his sleeves..." Sounds like my kind of guy. Image Unavailable, Please Login
He is very talented. I'm waiting to get Patrick Mimran & Valentino Balboni to sign mine before I frame it.
Featured in a 1992 issue of Top Car magazine when owned by Vic Sawyer, in a Lamborghini Countach vs Lotus Carlton test. FLA12878 is the same 1985 Downdraft on the cover of the Chris Bennet book on the Countach as posted earlier: http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/144580198-post2222.html Image Unavailable, Please Login
Lamborghini Countach LP400 LP400S LP500S 5000QV Design Production History Book | eBay FLA12878 much-featured in this excellent book Image Unavailable, Please Login
Lamborghini Countach 5000 4V Original Factory Specification Sheets Brochure | eBay Press release for the 455 bhp "4 valvole" carburetted engine @ the 1985 Geneva Salon - rare. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Great! I didn't know that the synchros on the quattrovalvole's gearbox were of a different type and that they were faster. Or maybe is it just pure marketing literature?
I beleive from Lamborghini "in house" gearing the QV uses the German company ZF. Some early FLA cars still had the older transmission installed. The gearing has a much more precise feel.
As Alex says, the 1985 (FLA) production cars intended component application was the German ZF box, but as always with Lamborghini in the period there was some carryover component use from the previous (LP500S) variant. I'd say the first half-a-dozen cars had the old boxes. I don't think the ZF boxes were 'faster' but rather more efficient, and as as Alex says agin, a more precise feel.