Reiter Engineering is an aftermarket tuning firm, and they’ve just had a go at the Lamborghini Murcielago LP670 R-SV. Interesting in and of itself, but Reiter Engineering chose to debut their latest at Spa. Ah, Spa Francorchamps, the last of the truly great racetracks. Good venue choice Reiter.
Before I dig into this souped up Lambo, let’s just get one thing out of the way: Apart from the old ‘Ring, Spa is THE baddest track around. It’s got a bunch of nasty corners, but one in particular, Eau Rouge, it just hellish. It’s a corner that attempts to tie the chassis in knots, and there’s very, very little run off area. Just ask Stefan Bellof. Oh wait, you can’t. He tried to pass Jackie Ickx there and paid for it with his life.
Now, Lamborghini Murcielago LP670 R-SV at Spa as worked over by Reiter Engineering. The Murcielago LP670 R-SV is the more or less stripped down factory racer from the Lambo boys, so Reiter had a good base to start with.
Reiter’s Murcielago LP670 R-SV, is a GT1 race-ready version of the factory car. From the plant, Lambo already cut 220 pounds fro the car, having it weigh in at 3,451 pounds. Reiter stripped off even more fat, taking off any bits not essential to racing and rendered a body entirely in carbon fiber, dropping a further 921 pounds to weigh in at 2,530 pounds.
Which, if you ask me is still too fat, but I’m a big fan of Colin Chapman.
The Rieter worked Lambo has a new, more brawny 6.5 V12 engine cranking out 670 PS (or 493 kW for you Euros out there) and 660 Nm of grunt at a fairly high 6,500 rpm. The ECU, however, has to remain the stock FIA-ECU from Magneti Marelli to comply with the race series regs.
And the race series is the whole point here. The Reiter guys are hoping the stripped down Lambo will be one of the six chosen marques for next year’s FIA GT World Championship, ergo, the ECU. One way or another, it seems like a nice stab from Reiter Engineering, and seeing a Lamborghini on track for a racing series, versus in the hands of a too rich real estate agent from Schenectady seems like something long overdue.
Source: AutoBlog. Photos from Flickr user cosmic_spanner.
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