Why hasn't anyone...

Put a modern Lambo V12 and running gear into a Countach? Seems like a good combination to me.

 

there is more than a simple swap of engine and tranny involved.

 

I think that's understood. Given enough money and desire, it could be done.

 

I think it has been done at least once (saw something about it on another site). An expensive major project for what?

 

this NEEDS to happen!

 

Get busy, bring money.

 

But why?

 

for the same purpose as adding a Nissan Skyline engine into a Ford Mustang hahaha

FASTER! FASTER!

but to be honest, i have never imagined that idea! wouldnt it be better just to tear the original engine down and blueprint and enhance it? larger bore and stroke? higher compression and lift? probably would be cheaper too.......so i would imagine, instead of trying to adapt all the elctronics and rengineer the car to suit the newer engines....

hang on......couldnt you fit an early diablo engine into a countach? or wait.........arent they the fuel injected 25th anniversary engines anyway?

 

If you've every seen the tight space that the Countach drivetrain fits into, you know this is insanity. I was at a shop where a Countach had been taken apart, including the engine and tranny removed which the techs said was a real PITA... the frame is so oddly constructed that I can't imagine how you could put anything new back there without basically remaking/rewelding 1/2 of the car's internal structure.

Sure, money could make it happen, but it would be Miura SV money.

 

+1,

and then you would have a car you could not sell, ever.

in this economy, nice cars still bring fast sales. the rest will sit, so it not a good time to "have to" sell anything.

 

The 360/430 seems to have plenty of space in the engine compartment (at least vertically), I've been saying for years someone should put at 575/612 V12 or now even a 599 V12 in there.

But yeah, when you see a countach drivetrain and engine sitting next to the empty chassis, it boggles the mind it even fits in the space it does. Pretty huge.

 

The question is what to put in, a lame Diablo engine?
Makes no sense, you can get a countach faster without butchering the entire frame, but the car itself will stay as old as it is. Suspension, brakes, wheels all fits together in the original state, changing one component will move in a particular direction where the other parts cannot follow.

I know what I'm talking of, my car is modded and used on the track heavily, I can tell you that a experienced driver can hold up with a diablo easily.

 

i think a lp 640 engine with e gear would be a better candidate? the tunnel section of the ct frame would have to be widened.. The gear shift mechanism is a bit longer on the Lp engine so perhaps the e gear set up is more plausible? the engine bonnet has to be redone, the steering columm modified to house paddle shift? Just throwing out ideas...

 

It hasn't been done because the car doesn't need it.

 

Rather then wasting a perfectly good CT body and frame just buy one of the fairly accurate replicars that have a Chevy V8 in them.

 

Put a Fiero v6 in one and really suprise someone.

 

For the same reason no one puts a 550/575 motor into a daytona.
Most lambo and ferrari models built before the mid-90s are relatively rare and aren't worth squat chopped, cut, and rebuilt.