quote Originally posted by Dennis LaGrua: These are nice looking cars but I have concerns about the nose on the gray one. At Carlisle this year there was a girl parked next to me that had this front end design. It was hinged at the front and latched at the windshield side. While I admired the nice look she was quick to tell me that at 70 -75 MPH air gets under it and the nose starts to shake violently. As a result the car must be driven only below that maximum speed. I would guess that at 100 MPH that nose would be in danger of breaking off and flying away. Point is that modified looks can be great but only if the body parts are mounted as is soundly as the OEM design.

I cut up the underside of my stock hood and glued it to the bottom of Norms hood.





Big difference.

MISTER,

Since I still have no clue how to upload pics here is a link to mu build diary


http://www.kitcentral.com/p...clude=view_album.php

There about 14 pages of pics from when I first recieved the car until now


RUNDLC

quote Originally posted by Blacktree: With the stretched frame, I'd say longitudinal LS6.

I agree...a car of that build quality deserves a longitudinal V8...except maybe an LS9!

quote Originally posted by RUNDLC: MISTER, Since I still have no clue how to upload pics here is a link to mu build diary http://www.kitcentral.com/p...clude=view_album.php There about 14 pages of pics from when I first recieved the car until now RUNDLC

Here she is... RUNDLC's Roadster
(I went straight to P.12-14 )

jealous!!! I so want a lambo dash in a Fiero.

A.I. you would have to do some mad mods to get on to fit, as I think about it you would have to cut way too much from the gauge area. I will say this though you guys on this site seem to be able to make almost anything fit into a fiero!! I just showed my fifteen year old one of the choptops in Archies thread, now the next thing out of his mouth is how much to get a fiero dad?? Here we go again.

Its been discussed many times in here. I for one will pay more for a nice replica than I would for a used real exotic. Simple reason is I like to drive, and drive the hell out of them. Exotics all go really good, but only for a short time before you need to take out another loan for repairs. I had around $34,000 in my Ferrari 308 replica, but it did have a turboed 3.1 high performance engine. I never regreted spending it at all. I finally just got rid of it because after 7 or 8 years driving it daily, I just wanted to move on to something bigger and more powerful. Im currently spending money on a 66 Dodge Coronet making my next dream car. Current plans already have it over what I spent on my new Magnum RT. Nothing would ever make me spend the amount needed to buy a used Lambo....might keep one if I won it or someone gave it to me.

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Sweet !

If I had to spend $200,000 on a car, Id prefer having a 1/2 dozen replicas in diff colors than a real one. Real Lambos are total pieces of crap. One guy here returned his to the dealership and sued for ALL his money back and got it after having it a year. He not the only one, a friend of mine had one I did some paint work on and something broke down in it EVERYTIME he drove it. He made more money not driving it. A local gas station guy gave him free gas if he left it parked out front during the day. He also lost his longtime gf over it. Seems he bought it with the money they were going to buy a house with and get married.

I am sorry to have to do this but, don't comment on quality if you yourself have not had any experience with a car. I can find thousands of owners that have had no problems with their lambo. Dependability is not an issue with lambos as much as is it with other brands. Two experiences are not enough to call an entire brand bad.
Sorry, I am not stirring anything, but I do call incompetence on that.....

-Alex

[This message has been edited by FieroGTRwideboby (edited 11-06-2007).]

Lambo built quality went up quite a bit since Audi took over. They introduced German Management, built quality (testing as well quality control). I remember reading an article years back about how it was hard for Audi to restructure the company, while at the same time, preserving the Italian spirit that the brand is known for.

Exotics are expensive to run and own. That's the price of admission.