pdisme
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Awesome! That'll be alot of fun at lights and stop signs... Post some videos when you start messing with people!
LOL, I've been messing with people non-stop since I got it back, it will pretty much pull on most cars I run into outside of a Plastic mess-06 but most will try me because they figure how could they get beat by a big SUV.
Just don't try to turn the wheel, corners are the enemy. 
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I'll bet your G doesn't seem quite so pointless now, does it?
Any plans for the other G?
My only complaint is that the G55 could really use a sixth gear (3500 rpm in 5th at highway speeds) but the tranny on it is bullet proof so guess I'll deal.
I'd like to get the SP exhaust and Gruppe M on the spyder, ideally in a couple months when I'm ready maybe SP will sell it as a kit so I can it installed locally since I don't want to truck the car cross country. I don't think I'm going to do anything too crazy with that car.
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Okay, the Mercedes G55 is one of the more pointless vehicles in existence; it's built like a tank, weighs 5500 pounds, has triple locking differentials yet comes with street tires, low-mounted side exhaust, beautiful paint and a supercharged 469 HP engine.
For most people, it's a love/hate vehicle and I love my 2005 Grand Edition G55; it's a big awesome box with great performance (if you're careful to not turn the steering wheel while on the gas) that embarrasses sports cars. Some video is at the end of the post for you lazy people.So what do you do with such a stupid vehicle? You make it more ridiculous!
Over the past two weeks I've had a mixture of Kleemann parts installed on mine, using some portions of their stage 3 and stage 4 packages. The work was done by Chris and crew at C2 Design in Tampa: http://www.c2dusa.com/ They do a lot of Kleemann work as well as tuning on exotics. I hope to have them do some exhaust work on my Gallardo in a couple months. They were very good to work with, kept me in the loop on everything, and I even left a digital camera with the truck and asked that they take pics for me as things came on and off so that I could put together a nice review of everything; came back with 150+ pics on it. I'm going to do some practice runs this weekend and then hit the drag strip in the next two weeks to get some real times out of it.On that note, here's what I had done:
1) Smaller crankshaft pulley to increase supercharger's rpm's which creates higher boost (new pulley doesn't actually go on the supercharger, pic is just of the supercharger itself for reference)
2) K&N air filters
3) Kleemann headers (pic with Kleemann vs OEM)
4) Lighter weight Kleemann down pipes (going from headers to mufflers & cats)
Heavy OEM
Light Kleemann
5) High volume water pump for increased cooling (pic with small OEM unit)
6) Lower temp thermostat to keep the engine at normal temp after the upgrades.
7) Larger throttle body
8) New engine computer programming from Kleemann
Theoretically, I should now be making somewhere upwards of 600 HP; there's no four-wheel dyno in Tampa rated above 450 HP though so we'll just have to guess at HP based on what I end up with at the drag strip. It is definitely faster going by the seat of the pants measurement, it really jumps now when you mash on the throttle and the engine sound is incredible; I love the supercharger whine you get from the increased boost.
Last but not least, here's some casual acceleration video, keep in mind the daytime video got started coming out of a corner so I was not on it hard. It does about a 5 second 0-60 and should be able to hit the high 12's in the quarter mile:
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Ya know I never thought of owning a Aston until I was a bit older and I probably would not have if they did not have the V8. I don't know if I would have bought the DB9 after doing some research on it. BUt yes the car does scream class which I do love about all aston's so I guess it will suit me well.
I think you mean the car screams when you get in it.
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Countach have stability control?
Oops, didn't realize this thread was in Countach area.
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It looks like a knife sharpener.
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What's the brake light look like? I've never seen that one but at the track my stability control light would flicker a bit on corners where I was on the throttle hard coming out.
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And the point of the thread is....? If you want to be technical, the last 'real' Lamborghini was the Urraco or Jarama.
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They stole the dash from the 2008 CCX
Kind of lame to have an old school head unit in a car where everything else is custom and wild.
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Well at least now I know it's not only me posting away into a black hole.
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I've received email notification of replies being added to the "Questions for lambo owners :)" thread, at least four or five, and each time I go I see the last post from Destructo last night at 2 AM. I've noticed this with a few other threads today, people adding replies and then they're not there.
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Normally with Youtube video you can embed it into a page, is raw html code allowed here or do we have to just link to the video? I wasn't able to get it to work.
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The correct pronunciation of the word is actually not Italian for those that mentioned Italian; the meaning of the word that Lamborghini uses is the Spanish version where it's pronounced guy-yar-do, Italians actually would pronounce it gallardo if it were an Italian word.
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Looks like a Lotus 340R with a ricer body kit, and it still won't have the performance of a Radical.
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Prior to d-day, if you quote-replied to multiple people before someone else posted, the board would merge them into one multiple-quote reply; it no longer does that. Additionally though, if you try to use the quote button to mark the ones you want to reply to, at least in FireFox 2, you get bumped back to the top of the page as if there's some javascript problem.
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OK, we need to clarify some ground rules here before you guys whip out the tape measures. Are we measuring from the end of the shaft or from the asshole?
Depends on who you're calling the asshole.
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If you know anything about drag racing there is a class called Stock/Super Stock. Many of those racers actually do this. And they run the crap out of their engines sitting on the line at 7k RPMs then dropping the clutch. But I sure wouldnt do this in a Lambo.
Yeah, but they don't mind rebuilding the engine after every few races.
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KING MY ASS!! I AM BETTER AT BASKETBALL, FINDING PORN AND OTHER STUFF!!! WANNA GO, YOU DONT WANT NONE!!
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:eusa_dance: I doubt it, send me all your porn and I'll compare.
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i never came on this board to boast about what i have or what i do for a living.
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i put my own money in for molds almost 10k now just on mold charges.
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I've reduced my Gallardo's weight by 800 pounds:
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If you remove half the oil from the car, you'll save at least 6 pounds, and Lambo's come with too much oil anyway.
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What's the point of this thread? If you want to race him, why not just PM him and set up a time?
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No one who puts a diesel engine in their Gallardo gets a title!
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Didn't sound like any mechanical problems but any Lambo owner who takes their car to the track deserves big credit, most sit them in the garage or take them out for so called 'spirited driving' once a month, which means getting it up to 100 on some straight road. Nothing wrong with taking it slow on the track, pushing beyond your abilities is when you put your car into a wall, driving within your abilities, concentrating on your line and your braking is how you get better.
*Video* My ML63 AMG
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Damn kilometers, I can't tell what I'm looking at!
That's it, I'm taking the g-wagen to the drag strip this week, you've motivated me.