Countach, the ultimate supercar

was looking at some ad's in the middle east and found this pic from a DD anniversary, i think this car has the "gulf" spec's, interesting to see... never seen this before under the hood from a CT... anybody knows what these things are???these black things right at the bottom?? and the "copper" thing left at the top??? also the LM002 "airfilterhousing".. interesting..
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I have heard of the airbox, this the 2nd picture I've seen in the last week or 2. Ugly but, I am sure, are effective.
The black things look like vacuum container but not sure.

 

I agree Peter. Those look like the vacuum canisters, which on my 5000QV are up in the front trunk area (passenger side, near the firewall).
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never seen these before, where are the lines going to? The gulf spec's cars maight have some modifications for high temps?

 

interesting..

 

The lines are going to butterfly valves located at the inlet of the air box.
When the engine is shut off the valves close to keep the air box sealed in attempts to keep blowing sands from entering the system. It is for the middle east where they get a phenomena called a Haboob, basically a giant sand storm.

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Don't we all make a living off of other peoples money??

Of course when I was in the Marines and now I'm working for the Government I actually pay myself at some level because my pay is based on tax Revenue

 

**** if you leave anything sitting around here for more than 5 minutes it is covered in sand.

 

Who expected THAT from Lamborghini, great work (again!)

 

Thanks for your service.

 

hahaha, yes.. on the other hand its kind of funny, keeps the thread up to 400 volts!

 

My DD Anniversary has the same Airboxes. There is a small amount of sand in the turn signal, which I leave there as part of the story. People love to hear about it! Car runs perfectly btw.
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That is pretty cool AIR4C_1! Our cars must be brothers!

Your VIN is KLA12002 (1989)

my VIN is GLA12002 (1986)

3 years difference. Pretty cool.

Mike

 

haha, great, i like that "first dust in the turn signal" never heard that before! You are right, is a part of the history, and.. i bet it runs perfect! great car!

 

I forgot to add. That set-up is sort of like what was on my 1980 Maserati 4Porte. As you can see from this photo.

The way this system worked, was when you shut off the engine, it opened a solenoid valve that allowed vacuum to move to the (2) valves (gold colored) attached to the air box. That closed off the airbox. Then (2) little pumps (grey & blue in color) started up and pumped any residual gas fumes into the 2 big gold colored charcoal canisters (mounted on the drivers side wheel arch).

Mike
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You, Mike, are always a step ahead!

ciao

 

Whoa! For a quick moment I thought the car was alive. Good quality photo

 

I think three of the five officially imported QV DD's to Australia also had them - helps with fuel smell when stationary as well...
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a black/red Countach is something i always like to see!

For a while i thougt "who stoled my car?", but i relaxed when i saw that bad looking airbox...

I'm joking, of course: it looks to be a fabntastic car

ciao