Best turbo conversion ever

[Turbo C-Ya]

Diablo SVTT :o

[Chris LS]

OMG That shit is beautiful

[buck19]

um actually didn't they make about 200 of those. they aren't conversions. just extremely rare cars. there's one in town here that i know of. i believe its a purple on.

[Ffej207]

Uh.. how many Diablo VT's do they make? In any case, I really doubt they make 200 TT's, if any at all..

[Ffej207]

http://www.lambocars.com/diablo/vttti.htm

Only a very few Lamborghini Diablo VT's were converted to Twin Turbo versions, actual numbers are not available but most sources state only 6 have been built.
These cars are currently very expensive and a rather rare find if you would like to purchase one. Recently, Platinum Motors Ca. had one for sale, finished in black over a tan interior with red piping.
The original price was about $ 500.000, but for this amount of money you got between 600 and 750 Bhp depending on Turbo pressure, with a 0 to 60 mph time of only 3.2 seconds ! A very nice feature was a dash-mounted switch with three settings, one for valet use which limited the engine to about 3500 rpm, the second setting controlled a 6 psi boost delivering around 600 Bhp while the third one was a full 750 Bhp with 9 psi turbo pressure. All this led to a top speed of a healthy 358 Km/h. (222 Mph).

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Twin blueprinted, water cooled, Garret T4 turbo's were installed with electronically controlled waste gates, custom built intercoolers, competition type valves with race-type guides and polished cylinder heads. A custom twin-plate clutch in kevlar to cope with the extra torque, a new short ratio gearbox to improve acceleration, and reprogrammed electronic fuel injection system, also the brakes were upgraded with cross drilled and ventilated discs using carbon fibre brake pads.
With all this power behind the drivers back, luckily the air conditioning system was upgraded too, just to keep your head cool enough to enjoy the brutal force of this unique kind of car.

One of the Twin Turbo's built was in fact a 1996 Diablo VT Roadster, the only Twin Turbo Roadster in the world until Gemballa made one too, this special VTTT Roadster was finished in red with a white leather interior, it was for sale at the beginning of 1999 at Platinum Motors.

A second hand Diablo VTTT will still cost about $ 380,000, if you can find one, because as far as I know only seven original VTTT's were ever made.

The story behind the creation of the Diablo VTTT's is quite interesting, they wanted to bore the standard 5.6-Liter out to a 7.4 Liter unit, but Automobili Lamborghini SpA didn't advice this move, it would be more feasible to use the 7.0 or even the 8.0 Liter marine engine from Lamborghini. After close calculation this engine would pump out 640 Bhp with stock compression, but by installing two turbo's and boosting the compression, an easy 1170 Bhp was possible on dyno-testing, unfortunately this much power and torque would rip the Visco Coupling to pieces, so avoiding to rebuild a stronger coupling system, they settled for the standard engine and ended up with about 758 Bhp on the wheel dyno, unfortunately since the front axle drive was removed when testing the engine, about 20 percent would be lost driving the front wheels too, but still a healthy 600 Bhp would be available to the fortunate driver.

Another 'tuning' option was available for the early Diablo's, Scott Ponsolle still had a few Stage II kits available which made the engine pump out about 100 Bhp more than normal, but this package didn't work on the later SE or SV type, only the 2wd Diablo and the VT. This 'factory official' package included special SV cam's, re-programmed ECM's, Micron air filters and modified spark plugs, and best of all, these kits were factory approved because they were probably left-over units from an earlier attempt from Automobili Lamborghini SpA to enter racing, this means no warranty issues resulted from their installation in a Diablo still under factory warranty.

Later a lucky owner had his Diablo VT converted into a Twin Turbo car much in the same way as the original VTTT's, but some major differences were apparent, the engine hood was taken from the SV model and the cylinder heads were heavily modified.
Probably the most important difference however was the fact that this 'seventh' VTTT was not an original Platinum Motors VTTT, the six VTTT's were all built under contract for Platinum Motors, this seventh car wasn't ... but it still looks great and with about 850 Bhp (that's what the license plate says) is should have enough power to outperform the Diablo 6.0 VT.

[Turbo C-Ya]

This is a one-off, there are no such things as a "factory made" turbo Diablo. There have been a handful converted to them though, this one in particular was made in Japan.

[Rotary7]

Top mount intercoolers suck ass

[boostedhairdryer]

Originally posted by Rotary7
Top mount intercoolers suck ass

wow sometimes i wonder why people open their mouths. those r top mounted for a reason and for the best air flow possible. just cuz u don't have a huge FMIC doesn't mean it doesn't do as good of a job. sorry we can't drive fast and the furious rx-7's with huge FMIC's. rock on vin diesel.

[Rotary7]

Originally posted by boostedhairdryer
wow sometimes i wonder why people open their mouths. those r top mounted for a reason and for the best air flow possible. just cuz u don't have a huge FMIC doesn't mean it doesn't do as good of a job. sorry we can't drive fast and the furious rx-7's with huge FMIC's. rock on vin diesel.

I dont think you own a Diablo SVTT,Do you even own a car with a TMIC? Hell do you on a boosted car?

[boostedhairdryer]

actually i do own a boosted car. also i can read and u can read lots of info on the car and the developement of the twin turbo system for it if u would like on more than one website. with that said i know of more than one car that works very well with TMIC. so thanks for ur laughs!

[Rotary7]

Originally posted by boostedhairdryer
actually i do own a boosted car. also i can read and u can read lots of info on the car and the developement of the twin turbo system for it if u would like on more than one website. with that said i know of more than one car that works very well with TMIC. so thanks for ur laughs!

BUT do any of your cars have a TMIC? I just think it would be better as a front mount,more air flow across the core.

Its looks nice,But I think power would increase with a FMIC..maybe just this car dont have room for 2 of them up there..

[flounder]

Originally posted by Rotary7
Top mount intercoolers suck ass

I would think a FMIC on a car with an engine in the rear would take too long to reach the desired psi. That's a lot of pipe for the air to travel through if it went to the front and back again.

[BumpinPSI]

Uhh yeah.

Flounder beat me to it.

K sure, let's run IC pipes to the FRONT of the car. Lets just put them UNDER the car. IN the car? Hrmmm...

Pressure drop? Nah...don't mind it at all.

[Illswyn]

Took me a moment looking at the picture as to why there was a window at the back (?) of the engine...then I realized the engine's in the back.

I hope by now you see the problem with a FMIC on a rear engine car. It is as far forward as it can be effectively!

[Rotary7]

Oops

Well they suck on front engine vehicles