Some questions to do with Diablo

it may be cheaper to invest in a good driving school ......

 

What ever..............

 

Seriously unless you are going to take it on track events like Nürburgring raceway it's not worth all your troubles you will be creating for yourself. Hell for all the extra costs involved by yourself a Murcie SV and be done with it.


The specs are not that far off

Enzo 3.6 0-60 top speed 217mph
Diablo 3.9 0-60 top speed 208mph

 

i have the solution:
buy any diablo you like for the road and a real race car or something like a Westfield, Atom, etc... for the track!!

you will have the best of both worlds (AND A LOT OF $$$ left in your pockets )

 

Buy a fiberglass kit, and use an aftermarket chassis and supercharged LS-7, with excellent Brembo carbon brakes.


You are ready to go !

 

Except for the brakes and the size of the driver's balls, there's nothing wrong with the Diablo, performance wise... At least not with mine

 

If you want a car for the track, I'd suggest something else. The Diablo isn't a track car or a car to do 0-60s in, it was really build for top speed more than anything else. It was not "designed bad in terms of performance", it just isn't a car you'd do those things in.
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Well it did compete for some time in various races, so it can do track work, but you'll have to invest in some upgrades to do so... Or just get an SV-R right from the start

 

Sorry, as many have already told you this, but I can't resist......... If you want a track car, GET A TRACK CAR! I have been through this......I went for many years tracking expensive exotics including Lotus Esprits, an LP400, Diablo, all types of Porsches, many Ferraris, etc. Then I finally WOKE up and realized that these exotics are very expensive to run hard....the wear and tear, maintenance, replacement parts are very, very expensive, and any type of accident carried huge repair costs. I woke up! I realized that the pretty much the slowest race car is faster than the fastest street car. So I bought a Formula Mazda (FM). An FM is inexpensive to run, safer to crash than any street car, and faster around any road coarse in the USA (as measured in lap times, not top speed achieved, as lap times are all that matters on a race track) than a Carrera GT, McLaren F1, Enzo, Veyron, or any exotic money can buy. There you have your answer. Same your money and preserve the exotics for what they were made for, and get faster lap times with an FM (or most any other single seater formula car), then you will get in an F40, Enzo, or any other exotic car street car. Period.

 

++1!

 

Here is some evidence from Laguna Seca Lap Times:

Notice that the fastest street car on this list is about 30 seconds a lap slower than the fastest car, the Champ car! And ten seconds a lap (an eternity on a race course) than the inexpensive FM!

Don't try to make something into what it is not. None of the cars your referred to are race cars...not the Carrera GT, not the Enzo, etc. They are NOT race cars and are slow on a track compared to real, and even inexpensive, race cars. The FM costs less than the carbon ceramic brake option on most exotics, and outruns them all by far on a race track because that is what it is...a race car. And I don't consider the street cars tarted up into race cars in order to help market and sell more street cars (like the ALMS Porsches and Ferraris, etc.) , to be real race cars either as they started life as street cars and were modded up. Something that starts life with a clean sheet of paper as a race car, is what you want to buy if you really are serious about going fast on a race track.

2007 Panoz DP01 Champ Car (Sebastien Bourdais) 1:05.880
2006 Toyota Formula 1 Car 1:06.309
Audi R10 1:08.268
500hp ALMS P2 Porsche RS Spyder 1:14.030
Zytek 04S 1:14.185
Lola EX257/AER 1:14.906
520hp A1GP Lola-Zytek 1:15.189
Audi R8 LMP 1:15.392
2008 Atlantic Championship Swift 016.a 1:15.447
Chevrolet Corvette C6-R 1:17.285
Formula Mazda Pro Star Mazda pole in 2006 1:20.1
250hp Honda MotoGP Bike 1:22.843
480hp ALMS GT2 Ferrari F430 GT 1:23.611
Formula 1000 Storh F1000 1:24.664
Formula Mazda 1:25.069
Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 1:25.406
Formula Ford Vestal 09F 1:26.178
C Sports Racer race record, Michael Vergers, Radical, 08/03/2002 1:27.673
D Sports Racer race record, Bruce Sunseri, Cheetah SR1, 07/16/2000 1:28.250
K-PAX Volvo S60R - Global Tuner Grand Prix 2010 1:28.517
Formula 500 Ellis AE06 1:29.427
2010 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR 1:33.915
Corvette ZR1 1:35.8
Porsche 911 GT3 2006 1:39.517
Formula Vee Citation XTC 41 1:39.285
Nissan GT-R 1:39.62
Porsche 911 Turbo 997 1:39.89
Audi R8 1:40.75
BMW M3 7spd 1:42.96
Porsche Cayman S PDK 1:43.0
Porsche 911 Carrera S 997 2008 1:45.0
Camaro SS 2010 1:45.7
Spec Miata 1:46.689
Spec Racer Ford 1:43.317
Porsche 993 Modified street car 1:41.3
BMW 335i Coupe 1:49.038
VW GTI 337, all stock 1:59.0

 

What he said!

 

Dreamer allert.

 

Hahha

 

May be that's what the Diablo GT is for.... I love the Diablo the way it is though,... big, huge, loud, massive, raw. Of course, other supercars faster, more maneuverable... I am so glad that all cars have their own characters and drive differently... more fun that way...

 

They SHOULD but it is not the case. Compared to the average street car they outrageously outperform them, hence the Supercar label, but it implies that we make this comparison with street cars, and I should add also with not so much modded/tuned street cars! You just cannot be sure that you will not be destroyed by a insanely modded Civic ( that will certainly explode later at a certain time but ... ), even if you were behind the steering wheel of a mighty race prepared Mc Laren F1 LM !!!

The only street legal car that that might does it all, that benefits of true aerodynamical down force is the incredible

Caparo T1

but I would not expect miracles on its ease of use on a daily basis ... and exploiting only 7/10 out of it will require you to take driving lessons AND a lot of seat time ...

You cannot control which cars will race against you so you will not be able to destroy everything.

But if you are a very competent driver and you show up at the track with a Caparo T1, you will approach your ideal!

OTOH, if racing is not an habit for you, chances are that there will be a guy on the track which racing is, and worse, this guy might have a serious track car ...

We all have dreams, on my side I'd take half immortality ...

If you want to stick with Lamborghini, you should give a try to a modded 1200 hp Turbo Gallardo Superleggera ... but infortunately, with this latter model, as would say Sir Shamile, no panties down!

Check Zahir Rana website. ZR Auto.


What is your budget?

How would you rate your driving skills? Do you have experience with real aerodynamical downforce added to huge mechanical grip?


Good luck!

 

Dear Lamborghinisti,

...and having to explain everywhere you go....yes, it is a Lamborghini....yes, I know the doors don't go up....


OK, I answer your question.....

You are looking at a Diablo TODAY...a car that was first built 20 years ago. ( haha..older than alot of the girls I know ) 20 years ago, it had the most insane performance possible. It was compared to the F 40...a near race car....not even the Testarossa of which it was designed to compete against.

Yes, the looks of the car are perfect...they just got it right...it's the quintessential exotic...of which all are measured and fall short.

But....time and technology marches on. Today 700hp is normal. Back then, you could get it...but how long would your engine will last...??

If you want a Diablo...buy one. Spend money at one of the tuners like Heffners Performance and they can set you up with a twin turbo system. I'm sure they can do your suspension, brakes and wheels/ tires to the most up-to-date level of performance.

Will it cost?? Sure....but that's not what you asked. You want a Diablo with modern performance....anything can be done...how much do you want to spend?

The reason you're not really being taken seriously is that you're coming onto a Lamborghini forum...which is a very small community and asking about buying a SVR or a DGT....which are NOT street legal.

You have to earn some street cred first.....


Shamile

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There is nothing wrong with the Diablo gearbox, it shifts perfectly, you can shift it in a blink of the eye, + it has enough power to pull any gear if its close to the gear you should be in for a particular turn or curve, .

 

I know of a short ratio SV-R gearbox if intersted - brand new but not cheap - PM if interested

 

I think you got it. Good job, Grasshopper!!!!

Ask Shamile.....his two daily drivers are what he loves to drive, what he like so be seen in, what he like to pick up chicks in, and what he generally knows looks great to/for/with him. Kind of like the reason we buy real nice and expensive clothes or watches..... Some may feel better, or cooler, or whatever in a Charger, or Shelby Mustang, or (insert your favorite car here). And the you can have fun on the street by accelerating, lighting up your tires in your Charger around a turn, doing a donut, or whatever.......just have fun! And for serious speed (and not just cornering; a FM accelerates to 60 in less than 3 seconds, and brakes better than any street car), get a race car. For FUN! Get in your street machine and have fun because you can take a passenger, a chick, or get an impromptu group together for a fun drive on short notice. That is fun, and there are hundreds of cars that can provide this without all the planning, scheduling, and all that goes with prepping and running a race car. What is fun is purely subjective, and I know I can have more fun than the law allows with a bone stock 68 charger with a 383..... Get the street machine for fun! And a race car for serious driving, which sometimes isn't really fun, but rather, a serious, committed experience. Amd the Diablo, or any newer Lambo for that matter, adds a new element of fun....(kind of the same feeling as having a nuclear weapon), you know that you can go over 200mph, and you never will, but just knowing you can is a lot of fun too.

 

Dear Lamborghinisti,

Whow.....you're comparing an American muscle car to a Lamborghini Diablo??

There is absolutely NO comparison. The muscle car was just a standard production product with a big engine....that's it. The Lamborghini is a hand built exotic with only Ferrari in it's league.

Have you ever owned a Ferrari or Lamborghini?? If not, you need to drive one....any one...even a lowly 308 GTSI. Even the "feel" of a 308 will blow away any domestic vehicle...even any Porsche.

You just can't use a Dodge Challenger as a frame of reference. I'm not being "smart" but there is absolutely nothing in common....nothing!!


Shamile

Freeze....Miami Vice !