Lamborghini Urraco P250 on Dyno

1974, 2462cc V8 Urraco dyno run makes 110kW.
Turn Up the Sound - enjoy a Lamborghini engine at full song.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Lamborghini
• Urraco
• P250
• Dyno

[brianpis]

Beautiful car. This car 15590 is only 10 numbers from my 15580, making it about 3-5 cars in between. Very nice to see the special "bravo" style capagnolos! Mine still has the original 15 hole capagnolos. Where is this car located?

[zacdog2]

HI Bri,

This car is located in Melbourne. I will have my Espada and Greg will have this P250 at the Euroa Car Display on Sunday....

[cuddlyable3]

How does that performance compare to the factory spec? Is the engine standard?

[zacdog2]

Factory Specs are 220 and we saw around 140at the rear wheels. With a 30 to 40hp loss through the drive train to the back wheels we can assume the motor produced around 170 to 180hp. This is below the rated 220, but the Lamborghini Factory tended to over-rate their figures. Given that the motor had not been freshly tuned the results are fairly good. Only mod is a new electronic ignition system

[simondaddy1]

The Bravo look-alike wheels-which brand are they ?

[yousillygrouse]

Great looking and sounding car.... i have to ask, where did you get the figure of 30 to 40hp drivetrain loss. Is it a standard 15 to 20% ?

[kirkconway]

I always liked the urraco, It was a good car with a good engine, sad that the factory was in that tractor import deal with brazil i think and the order backfired so there wasntnt funds to carry on production of the Urraco.

[EccentricRichard]

Hmm... a mid-engined V8 sports car, the littlest sister to the Lamborghini V12 flagship... is the Audi R8 the 21st-century Urraco? Much as I like the R8, I think it would have been better if it had been a baby Lambo instead...

[EccentricRichard]

@walter4x4 - the old Daimler 2.5 Hemi from the SP250 roadster and the Daimler-badged version of the Mark 2 Jaguar is incredible too. Sounds like a really big Rover V8 - deep, bassy thunder.

[bigphat200]

I think cars lose about 4 hp per year anyway so that seams to be right on the money. i have seen a lot worst.

[paulhunter123]

whats all this faffing about

[Ruelpsgruetze]

@Pnoerre

yes you are right, I also say that to vintage car owners.

[Pnoerre]

I have got a very good hint for you to keeping the nice old Sports Engine in good shape with todays ultra dry eco fuels: Use 1:100 API TC two stroke oil / fuel mix as regular driving fuel, that keeps the old fuel-system gaskets, rubber parts, alloy parts etc... and cast iron metal surfaces of those vintage engines in excellent shape...and it also lubricates the valves and upper piston regions. Most Porsche vintage owners in Germany do so :) Also keeps the carbs and injectors clean as new!