Lamborghini Engine on Ebay

[sclayto2]

Okay so it is putting out 860 bhp, but look at it!

Who puts pink fittings on an engine?

[ferrarispider]

I would buy that sh1t just for the pink bit

[360boy]

Southampton address.
Could it be out of a power boat?

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Yup, boat. I used to do offshore power boating and I can tell you the chances of that engine making 860bhp are about 0%. They used to be tuned to produce all their power in one very narrow power band, so rubbish for most uses. And they break. A lot.

[XXVIII]

yep - that's certainly one of the boat engines!

...and whilst they may break a lot, they seem to have been able to hold together well enough to win numerous Class 1 World Championships for boats using them - often with a British throttle man, (Steve Curtis MBE) doing the vital work.

(banging of names falling to the floor time: I met Steve at his office in Chelsea once when he was trying to get LCUK bods along to watch a C1 race near Plymouth and also briefly at the Lamborghini 40th Anniversary event in 2003, clang, clang, clang...)

So, that engine's probably not a total pile of rubbish then but I'm sure that £3,500 would be much less than 20% of what it would cost to make it run right in some boat or other if you were to buy it!