A Real Car Guy!

ikillcopiers

Not often I see a tale worth posting, but this is definitely it.

There's a book in this!

My hat goes off to this man, I sincerely hope
his new venture works out for him.

SV

absolute legend.

fair play to him for having the balls to do that.. hope it works for him!

Muckie

Cool story.

Shane732

Hero!

carefulnow100

If I had anything left to sell id join him!:(! Id give petrol money!:D

CONM

Great story! But that's a seriously ugly spoiler on the back, ruins the car.

Bodhan

" if money doesn't buy you freedom then it's useless"

There's a big lesson in that quote for Ireland! I would love to do what he did, ahhh if only

peasant

looks like he bought the wrong car though (or skimped on the service)

After all the hard driving and long miles, the timing chain stretched, crunching the valves and turning the car into an exotic and expensive paperweight

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only 91.000 miles, ffs

Mr Benevolent

After all the hard driving and long miles, the timing chain stretched, crunching the valves and turning the car into an exotic and expensive paperweight

So it's an Almera in disguise.

I knew it!

Eric Cartman

you would think a $180,000 car would have a non-interference engine or titanium valves or something

qz

I'd eat ramen noodles to pay for gasoline, just to avoid the monotony of being stuck in four walls.

Michael 09

What a legend...

+1 on the spoiler. Other than that it's slick looking though, looks like a new version of Kitt from knight rider

Zubeneschamali

peasant wrote: »

only 91.000 miles, ffs

What's the problem? Just have it flown to Italy for a new engine, and drive one of your Ferraris 'til it's flown back.

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Sounds to me like the chap discovered his house was in negative equity and he could not sell so decided to leverage his future by live beyond his means in grand style as a solution. Maybe I am being a grouch but thats just foolish not cool.

Dont know if I would by a custom bike off a guy thats almost proud of having destroyed a lambo by not servicing it properly or paying for repairs......

Anan1

Amari Deafening Condo wrote: »

Maybe I am being a grouch but thats just foolish not cool.

Most really cool endeavours involve a large dose of foolishness though, don't they?:)

Bodhan

Bodhan wrote: »

" if money doesn't buy you freedom then it's useless"

There's a big lesson in that quote for Ireland! I would love to do what he did, ahhh if only

Yeah, now he's in debt up to his mohawk and has a non running car worth close to sfa.

*Kol*

Amari Deafening Condo wrote: »

Dont know if I would by a custom bike off a guy thats almost proud of having destroyed a lambo by not servicing it properly or paying for repairs......

What has that got to do with him building custom bikes???

*Kol*

*Kol* wrote: »

What has that got to do with him building custom bikes???

Mechanical sympathy is a virtue one would look for when commissioning a dude to build a custom bike I would think.

notel70

great read, pity about the ending

peasant wrote: »

looks like he bought the wrong car though (or skimped on the service)
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only 91.000 miles, ffs

dont know where you picked the no servicing thing up a highly stressed high reving V10 is never going to last forever, up to the 91k miles it didnt cause any trouble. quite impressive imo.

*Kol*

RoverJames wrote: »

Mechanical sympathy is a virtue one would look for when commissioning a dude to build a custom bike I would think.

I disagree. The mechanical sympathy in the responsiblility of the user/owner of the bike not the builder.

peasant

notel70 wrote: »

dont know where you picked the no servicing thing up a highly stressed high reving V10 is never going to last forever, up to the 91k miles it didnt cause any trouble. quite impressive imo.

No offence, but I don't hink you know what you're talking about.

The engine died because of stretched timing chain. The chain jumped a cog or two, causing the pistons to eat the valves. That is an entirely unnecessary and avoidalble death.

First off, the chain should be designed not to stretch. If that isn't possible, then the service manual should state change intervals that prevent stretching.
Secondly, a strechted chain starts rattling audibly ...it's up to the driver to hear that and do something about it before broken valve bits come flying out the exhaust

shogunpower

notel70 wrote: »

great read, pity about the ending




dont know where you picked the no servicing thing up a highly stressed high reving V10 is never going to last forever, up to the 91k miles it didnt cause any trouble. quite impressive imo.

a the v10 in the m5 is higher revving and produces around the same power and i've never heard about its timing chain stretching, it would certainly last over 200,000 miles without catastrophic failure,

therefor the lambo engine is very unimpressive in my opinion

unkel

shogunpower wrote: »

therefor the lambo engine is very unimpressive in my opinion

Did you not read / understand the post before yours? The car wasn't properly maintained. The owner and / or his mechanic failed to act on warning signs / noises

But that said, what's the highest mileage original engine supercar that any of you have come across? I for one can't recall ever having seen a Ferrari for sale with 91k miles on it. Or should this be in a separate thread? Up to you mods to decide

MunsterCycling

Lambo should offer to repair it for free, he has prob put the most miles on oneof them in their history