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  1. joe sackey

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    #3451 joe sackey, Jul 23, 2016
    Thank you Luis.

    We used Weber specialists Pierce Manifolds:

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    #3452 joe sackey, Jul 23, 2016
    Amen.
     
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    #3453 joe sackey, Jul 23, 2016
    Great rhetorical question! :)
     
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    #3456 joe sackey, Jul 23, 2016
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    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.
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    #3459 joe sackey, Jul 24, 2016
    The same DD above is seen here on the Grande Giro a few years ago

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk2MdG4r57c[/ame]
     
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    #3460 raymondQV, Jul 24, 2016
    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...
     
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    #3461 raymondQV, Jul 24, 2016
    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.
     
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    #3462 Countachqv, Jul 24, 2016
    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?
     
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    #3463 joe sackey, Jul 24, 2016
    I think you are correct.
     
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    #3465 Spyder-Man, Jul 25, 2016
    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
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    #3466 joe sackey, Jul 25, 2016
    Unfortunately I don't know who the owner is - yet.
     
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    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.
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    #3468 Jalpa_Mike, Jul 25, 2016
    Love that red car! But then again I am partial! LOL!!! Steve did amazing work on it.

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    He is very talented.

    I'm waiting to get Patrick Mimran & Valentino Balboni to sign mine before I frame it.
     
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    #3474 Downdraft1, Jul 27, 2016
    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.
     
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    #3475 joe sackey, Jul 27, 2016
    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.
     
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