Jalpa Euro Engine Update by Ross

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The way I understand it Raymond is that your Urraco Air boxes are opposite of the Jalpa. The Jalpa, as you know, has a flat base plate bolted to the carbs and the air box drops over the carbs. Your Urraco should have a lower air box bolted to the carb with a flat top plate that covers it. I'm really not sure what happened at Lamborghini but it looks like at some point they tried to blend both systems with a flat base plate that has a crank case vent tube and an air box on the other side that has a crank case vent tube. Very confusing, but for me I can make mine look correct. It should work on your Urraco but there isn't anyway to make it original.

I saw my heads and block yesterday. They look like new. Mike at Evans usually paints the raw aluminum with an aluminum paint but I asked him to leave them alone. The upper end (Cam Covers and and Water Pump, Upper Vally Cover) is not perfect so I'm thinking about letting him paint those. What do you guys think? Mike wants to paint them aluminum and his mark is to paint the Lamborghini script on the Cam Covers red. I'm kind of partial to black Cam Covers with Gold Lamborghini script. Not original I know but paint is reversable. How about your opinions? Thanks!

Some of you may find this interesting.  

I grew up in North-Central Ohio surrounded by farm land and Amish and Menonite communities (Horse and buggy). Exotic cars were Porsche, BMW and Mercedes. Our "Exotic" experiance was an ocassional Prosche or Mercedes. I grew up worshipping marques that most people never heard of.  

After serving six years with the Navy I returned home to find that most people were aware of the true European exotic cars but no one had ever seen one. I was in my late twenties before I saw my first Ferrari and Lamborghini!

After years of hard work I finally managed to by one of my dream cars, a XKR Jaguar Coupe with 390 HP. Shy of a couple of Dodge Vipers I had the ultimate Exotic in my area!

Well, the XKR had an arguement with a guard rail in July of this year and lost. So I went looking for a replacement. The Lamborghini Jalpa was on my list but I wasn't going to buy a car that I couldn't get repaired out here in the middle of farm land.

Anyway, I started looking and found a Jalpa for sale at Evans Automotive (an hour south of me in our state capital of Columbus). Seems that since the seventies, Evans has been working on these pieces of art. The internet is an amazing thing! I went to look at the Jalpa (which was discussed at length on this web sight) only to find out it was sold. Long story short, I found one as you know.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm patiently waiting for Evans to finish my Lamborghini Jalpa. But part of the experiance of waiting 34 years (since I first fell in love with the Countach) to get ahold of my Lamborghini is the experiance I'm having visiting Evans Automotive while they do the work! Every time I visit, this country boy gets to walk among greatness! The Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Jaguars are incredible! I'm waiting on Mike to finish his two year restore of a rare M12 Vector so he can start assembling my Jalpa V8! That's an experiance I'm willing to wait for. Is there anyone else here that can say they have touched a Lamborghini powered Vector? This country boy feels he's touched the sky and I'm not looking forward to it being over!