Engine rebuild

[4321go]

I’m sure that many of you are aware that I use my 2005 Gallardo as daily transport. Since I purchased it in the early summer of 2013 I’ve taken it from 42,000 miles to 105,000 miles and growing!

And now I feel that it’s probably due an engine rebuild. It’s still as strong as anything; in the words of the (VERY experienced) main dealer technician who test drove it after its last service, it “pulls like a fking train!” But ever increasingly, it LOOKS like it’s pulling like a “fking train”. A diesel one! Oil consumption has reached frankly comical levels.

So who shall I have rebuild the engine? And who should I avoid? And in both cases, “Why?”

Please don’t recommend a business just because they’re your mates! This is too expensive an undertaking for me to choose the wrong people. But if you’ve genuine reason and experience on which to offer me advice, then please do!

PistonHeads posting rules say that you can praise a business to the rafters, but you can’t slag them off on here. Please, if you have genuine reason to suggest that I AVOID a particular business, PM me direct. Just click on my user name, and when my profile pops up, click on “email me”. Anything you say will be STRICTLY between you and me.

Thanking you all in advance.......

[Ferruccio]

Might be cheaper to get a “new” secondhand engine?

[jontysafe]

REPerformance in swindon. Ricky has rebuilt....and twin turboed a number of V10s.
Don’t know where you’re based?

[andrew]

Ferruccio said:

Might be cheaper to get a “new” secondhand engine?

+1 : talk to eurospares

[Superleg48]

Outstanding. This is developing into a Gallardo version of Simon’s legendary SG54 Murci

Keep going!

[PompeyReece]

jontysafe said:

REPerformance in swindon. Ricky has rebuilt....and twin turboed a number of V10s.
Don’t know where you’re based?

Another +1 for Ricky.

Make a 200 mile round trip to him to service my R8. He knows the V10 engine like the back of his hand - well worth travelling hours for.

[70proof]

BHP sport in Buckinghamshire

Backdraft Motorsport in mk

[4321go]

Thank you all so much for the replies so far! Thank you for taking the time to write. I’ve also had a couple of PMs so far. I’m at work and busy, so I’ll reply to them later this afternoon.

The two names immediately above are the ones I was most aware of and I’ll be talking to them very soon. REPerformance I’d never heard of, but Swindon is closer to me in Hampshire, so I’ll definitely talk to them too.

Please keep the recommendations and PMs coming.

TIA

Simon

[runner911]

Yet another recommend for Ricky Elder at RE Performance, Swindon.

http://reperformance.co.uk/

The man is a genius and is the only one I will allow to work on my R8 V10 .

I make the trip from Plymouth to Swindon.

I can assure you that you will be delighted with his expertise and work.

[craig-ha19w]

Another vote for Ricky at REPeformance-I make a 130 mile each way journey to him to look after my R8 v10+ and he has my V10 rs6 at the min-he knows his stuff and is a great nice guy

[Gary C]

4321go said:

I’m sure that many of you are aware that I use my 2005 Gallardo as daily transport.

Hero

and thanks on behalf of all those who also get the pleasure of seeing it

[4321go]

Once again, my thanks to those of you who took the trouble to reply to my query, either on this thread or by PM. Things are moving forward and as developments may well be of interest to the wider audience of supercar owners, I’m going to effectively close this thread in favour of continuing to update the thread of the same title in the “Supercar General” section.

Watch THAT space.........