Here's How Much Money My Cheap Lamborghini ACTUALLY Cost To Rebuild

how's it going guys my name is devar and today we're gonna find out how much money I've spent on my Lamborghini Kyoto project over the last year and we're gonna find out if the cheapest Lamborghini in the country is still the cheapest Lamborghini in the country spoiler alert probably not so if you knew the channel thank you so much for watching I really hope you enjoy it I couldn't have done it without you guys this is the culmination of the project this is the end where I let you guys know how much everything cost I actually don't know I did put all the numbers sort of in a spreadsheet but I didn't put the total in and we're gonna find out together if this cheap Lamborghini is still cheap but those of you that don't know what I'm talking about you can go and watch my playlist link for that will be in the description below or up here I don't know how you tube does it anymore you can go check that out if you're lost on any of it and you can watch my at this point doesn't send dozens of videos so let's begin I bought my 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder on the internet that's the best place to buy used cars but the best place to buy used cars on the Internet is a site called Auto tempest comm and they are also the sponsor of today's video now the reason why I mentioned them not it's not just because they're sponsoring today's video it's because I've actually used this site for years so those of you that know my channel know that Auto Tempest isn't just a place where I go and find cars to buy it's a place where I go and do research on cars that I buy in the future you see if it's research then you don't have a problem but what the site does is it basically brings together listings from all the major used car sites and it's super easy let's see if I can find the cheapest Lamborghini Guyardo in the country so we just go to Lamborghini we go to Guyardo and we put it into any miles of nine oh two one oh nine oh two one oh and we hit search and right away we have a ton of listings for Lamborghini guy arrows now this one is 160 grand I think that's a little bit out of our price range I don't think I spent that much but here's one for ninety-nine thousand here's one for that same 159 one here's one for 126 167 139 129 we want the cheap one so let's let's keep scrolling down here ooh 88 Oh 26 that's actually a very specific number but this is the Oh 6 guy order spider it's white just like mine so we're going to keep an eye on this one this is $88,000 we're gonna see if mine is a little bit more expensive now in addition you can go up here and hit this and you can compare with all of Craigslist not just your local area it really is very very useful when you're trying to find the country's cheapest car I mean if you can't find the country's cheapest car with this you're doing it wrong so right around a year ago I was on Auto Tempest and I was looking up Kyoto spiders as you're apt to do when you're doing research and not trying to buy a car at all and I found a car that was for sale in California now it had some damage it had some fire damage and it wasn't running technically it was running but it wasn't driving the listing said that it had a issue with the clutch being on the floor and it just wouldn't drive in addition it had a twin turbo system and it was also a Manuel Manuel Gallardo's are very very rare at least in this price range they were asking 69 thousand dollars and me being a shrewd negotiator I offered them 55 and they declined but then I upped my bid a little bit I went to 56 57 58 and then they messaged me and said hey we have a bunch of offers for 62 and 63 if you can give us 64 the car is yours and $64,000 might not sound like a lot for a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder with a twin-turbo system and also a manual transmission but for me $64,000 is more money than I've ever spent on a car ever ever it was actually a big deal for me because I had an Aston Martin v8 Vantage and that I had to sell to make money for this car so I decided to just go for it what could go wrong I mean at the very least if I sold the car and I parted it out I could get probably most of my money back it's a good thing I didn't have to do that but after I wired the money and had a few kind of sketchy videos of the car in rain on a forklift of all things running and driving I had a friend go out there and check the car out and he gave it a clean bill of health well as as clean as it can be the car did start so that's the only thing I was concerned about then I had the car shipped over from California all the way to Florida it was mine it was my Lamborghini and I was super pumped about it so let's go over all the money that I spent on this car since then and then we'll see if I got a good deal or not now I have a little spreadsheet here the car cost me $64,000 again more money than I've ever spent on anything shipping was 900 bucks that was actually a deal and a half I have to thank Bob from TAC Auto Transport he did a really good job it was covered shipping cross-country you can't beat that now the prices I have listed in the spreadsheet they are kind of scattershot they're not necessarily in the order that I did them in and they are rounded to the nearest 50 dollars so it's not gonna be a very very specific number just because there are a lot of receipts and I have to go through all of them this is basically a a ballpark it's gonna be very accurate ballpark but a ballpark nonetheless just so you guys know how much I've spent on this entire project so the first thing oddly enough that I did on the car was wheel powder coating I had those sent out to the guy at a Jukka racing that does all their powder coating and that was $600 to powder coat my wheels from the red really loud red that the car came with to a more subtle it was called cosmetologist a gunmetal I had some flake and it looks really really nice then I got tires now michelin is a product sponsor for my channel but what we're gonna do with this is that I'm gonna give you the retail prices of everything so in case you guys want to build the Lamborghini of your own and you have similar circumstances you'll know how much this stuff costs so the tires are Michelin Pilot Sport flores's and they are legitimately the best tires that you can get on any car ever those tires were $1200 that's what the retail cost on those is then I had to dig into the turbo system the turbo system on that car was not good so I had to take it apart basically do the entire thing over the exhaust was facing the wrong direction the intake was taking air in from a really hot place in the engine bay I have no idea how that car even ran but the turbo kit definitely needed redoing so I got a new turbo it was a BorgWarner EFR 83 74 it's a really cool turbo it spins up super fast I bought it locally and it was $1600 yeah that's a lot after that I had the turbo piping made completely custom I essentially helped somebody else do it and that is Tony the welding Jedi he is amazing and he is a viewer and now he's a friend and he's just one of the best guys that I know he was so dedicated in this project that he would work from 5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and then after work you'd come and work at my essentially two-car garage that we converted into a one car garage with a small welding station and we worked on the turbo kit until midnight every night and then he had to go to sleep for like three hours and then go to work I have no idea how he did any of that but he is an absolute MVP so we got stainless steel pipes for the turbo kit that's a stainless steel going from the down pipes into the turbo and also the exhaust that was five hundred dollars we have welding supplies which were $200 that means grinding discs that means cut off wheels that means saw blades that means other stuff wire brushes argon gas all that stuff and now we have welding services now Tony didn't want to get paid and I wanted to pay him I wanted to give him something he did spend so much time so that was $700 honestly I don't think it was enough and I definitely want to make it up to him we can do a nice fancy dinner and he definitely will get a ride in the car and drive it if he wants to then I had to redo the fuel lines and fittings and this was a big deal because fuel leak on this car was originally the reason for the fire the fuel lines were something that I had to make custom and I had to make 100% so all the fuel lines and fittings that were on there that were really badly on there and badly designed they had to leave so I basically threw all those out the fittings I still saved but I didn't reuse them because they were a different type of connector the fittings that I used they were a n fittings all throughout and I made sure that the correct diameters were used I made sure that the correct washers were used and I made sure that the lines were crimped correctly and there were no leaks so that cost $500 another $500 were spent on the oil fittings and lines we did have to do the oil system for the turbos we had to reroute some things we have to basically throw away the oil system that was there and the oil lines and all that stuff had to be redone a lot of this cost is basically me ordering fittings realizing that they don't work spending two or three days trying to fit them up realizing that I need something else and ordering more so I have a huge box of fittings at my house that aren't really doing anything other than waiting for my next project so that cost 500 bucks then we have the big one as far as fittings and lines are concerned the intercooler system so the intercooler system on this car basically how it works is you have a tank of water that water it gets brought through a pump and then it goes into a heat exchanger where it gets nice and cool then it goes back into the intercooler where it can cool the charged air because charged air is hotter air when you compress air you make it hotter and when you can cool off that air that means that you get more boost you get more timing you get more power so I had to redo all of that it did have an intercooler and a haridwar intercooler that it did keep but I had to redo all the lines I had to redo the tank so the intercooler fittings and lines cost $1,200 now the tank itself I got a cheap Amazon Prime that was $100 the intercooler pump that is a that's a monster it's called a Stuart EMP it flows basically like a fire hose I have never had a problem with it it's a continuous use pump - really expensive I paid five hundred dollars for it but then I had to do the clutch and the clutch was not working this car stopped for two or three years and the clutch just basically welded itself to the flywheel so I took off the transmission I just cleaned up all the surfaces and I popped the clutch out and then it started working now I did have to clean everything back and get new bolts and the new bolts were 50 bucks then I got your favorite some dei gold tape and the gold tape was used as a heat reflection for the stock heat shields and also to make the intercooler a little bit better and just just make everything a little bit more efficient that was $300 I spent on some some tape and some other dei products I also did two oil changes now the first oil change was to get all the old oil out of the car and then the second one was after I did the dyno to oil changes with very expensive oil I have 20 W 60 Motul 300 V lamaa racing oil all together with two oil changes and the oil and and everything else the the o-rings that you need it was $600 so that's that's that's a tough pill to swallow and all you're doing is changing oil especially when the oil is almost brand new manual transmission fluid I also change that I have redline MT 90 I believe so that was $150 now the tuning was one of the things that I had the most trouble with because as you know Lamborghinis are very very common and anybody and their mother can tune one of these things there are like five people in this country that can accurately tune a Lamborghini with a twin-turbo setup and zero of them want to do work on cars that they haven't built now Cybex did offer some help in that they referred me to a tuner in Dubai that helped me out with this entire system he set up everything to get me kind of like a base tune and they did give me a base tune so they were a big help on that but I still needs to do all the groundwork myself and find a person that knows tuning now I know a lot more about tuning than I did but I needed to recruit somebody that really knew their stuff because the last thing I want is for me to spend all this money on a car and the engine blows out so I took it to Jeremy from faster problems and he's the guy that does all the cars for cletus MacFarland he was local to me about an hour and a half and I took the car over there and we tried to get the car - now here's the thing when you tried to do a lot of stuff in one day it doesn't really end up working well because tuning takes a while tuning takes a long time we had basically a whole day and you know to do a idle and drivability and power runs and all that stuff on an unknown system on an unknown engine we learned a lot through that process but we did get some cool fire balls fire balls are always good and hung out with Cletus mcfarland and he's just the best guy ever also jeremy is the best guy ever so there's nothing there's no knocking on him or at all I spent about $1,000 on that day and after that I got another offer from a guy in Tampa close to where Cletus is and he says hey I have a Mustang Dino and you're free to use it anytime you want and I'm also a tuner I know how to tune things I have to in cars and Dubai I've tuned lots of race cars so I know what I'm doing his name is Erik Cruz and now you guys know him on the channel he was actually in my last Lamborghini video tuning the drivability and idle and all of that now Erik did not want any money for tuning I came to him and I spent five days at his shop and that's how long it takes and all we did was we tuned the mid-range and also the top-end so we did get a lot of power and on his dyno the car made 622 the wheels and on that dyno it read very very low we're talking MacLaren's that read 400 something to the wheels so on any other dyno it would probably read around 800 to the wheels which would mean 900 something to the crank and the car definitely feels like in 7 to 900 horsepower car it is absolutely insane Erik didn't want anything for the tuning that he did even though he spent a lot of time so I gave him my mr2 turbo project and I also gave him all the parts that I had that was a $2,500 value but I'm not gonna count that because now we're friends and sometimes friends give each other cars that need a lot of work but recently Erik came by and he tuned the idle and drivability and he also gave the car a two-step and also a little bit of pops and crackles when you press the throttle down and I gave him $300 for that again he didn't ask for anything and I think I'm probably under valuing this but that's how much it cost now I did have to do a lot of wiring in this car and the miscellaneous wiring supplies meaning crimps connectors and the sensors for the convertible top which still does not work I have tried everything I've gone over every single pin out and it's it's really really been difficult but the top can work manually I can manually put it down but other than that it just doesn't it doesn't work on its own I think it might be a hydraulic issue where one of the hydraulic rams is leaking so I'm just gonna have that rebuilt the miscellaneous wiring supplies $350 miscellaneous paint and refinishing supplies $200 miscellaneous brackets and metal standoffs this is so I can mount things like the remote reservoirs that was 100 so it wasn't really that expensive also the seatbelt on the passenger side needed some work that was a hundred bucks on eBay that was actually not too bad then we have the rear convertible tray oddly enough my car didn't come with a convertible tray it's the big plastic tray that goes above the engine which the convertible top slots into that was eight hundred bucks then we have the Android head unit and you guys love the install of this but did need some modification but that was four hundred bucks now the paint and bodywork is something that I was really really looking forward to and also kind of dreading because you can screw up a paint job real quick but I ended up taking it to the experts at Euro Car Body Shop in Winter Park Florida and they did an awesome job now they did we did a promotional deal they did give me a pretty good discount but what they would charge anybody else is $3,500 or there abouts 3500 bucks for paint and bodywork it did take about a month or so but it came out looking very very good and even though they did tell me oh there are a few things that we'd like to change so bring the car and when you can they were really upfront about it and I wouldn't hesitate to bring my cars there and I will be doing that in the future but the next part is diagnosing the car now the car did have some issues electrically I needed to reset the airbag light I needed to see what the top was doing what the sensors were doing and all that stuff so in order to do that I had to get our Windows XP laptop because apparently Lamborghinis can't talk to anything like this they can't talk to anything new so I bought a Windows XP laptop on Craigslist for 50 bucks I had a bunch of weird software on it but I'm not going to the Internet so who cares then I bought the Alerus software and the lera software is a diagnostic the dealer level diagnostic software for the early Lamborghinis and that was sixteen hundred bucks then you have to find a way to get from the computer to the car and and what you need is called a multiplexer and I bought a cheap Chinese knockoff multiplexer for three hundred dollars which actually wasn't that cheap to begin with and it did not work the drivers didn't work and I didn't work with any computer and it certainly didn't work with a car then I got something else that was useless and expensive the factory service manual so the factory service manual on the Lamborghini is is just garbage it's it's absolute garbage the pictures are horrible there's major spelling and corrections there's lots of wrong information and that was 500 bucks then I got the factory wiring manual which was worse than useless because I had an electrical engineer look at this and he's like dude you can't use this this this will confuse you more so the wire colors were all wrong it had some weird numbers and weird letters that didn't make any sense it didn't correspond to anything so that was useless that was another 500 bucks so a thousand dollars in these manuals and they didn't do anything and to get the correct multiplexer I had a viewer just give it to me it was it was pure happenstance pure chance but I'm so grateful that one of my viewers gave me the correct multiplexer with the correct serial port and all that stuff and it worked and I could finally see what the car was seeing and have valera software work but it took a long time it took like three or four months for me to get that and that was free but it was like a $650 value if I were to actually buy that which I did try to they don't make it anymore and then we come to the AC system so since the engine had been out multiple times the AC just didn't have a charge soap refrigerant rings and a dryer for the AC system or a hundred bucks and then I got K&N air filters with the socks the socks that protected from moisture and water that was $150 then we have the transmission oil line which did spring a leak for some reason I think I over tightened it and I had to fix it with some fittings and a new line and I fixed that 50 bucks and then I got a top ECU and the top ECU is basically just a computer for the top system I thought that was faulty it was not faulty so that was again a waste of money also I'm gonna add in right now five hundred dollars for hydraulic lines that I got from top hydraulics out in Oregon my hydraulic lines one were leaking and two were burnt so I replaced a few hydraulic lines and that was five hundred dollars so to finish the build off in my mind I wanted to make the car look as good as possible and I had to update that rear end which meant that I had to get a new bumper new taillights a new rear panel now the bumper was a fiberglass recreation that I got from Poland and that cost $1,600 the taillights and brackets that was very expensive and I work with a company called euro spares co dot UK and they sent me over some brand new tail lights from an LP 570 which really smartened up a look and they also included the brackets but even without that the retail price is three thousand three hundred dollars in addition the facelifted rear panel is different than the one I got on the car so I had to get that it's a fiberglass recreation I got it on eBay it was seven hundred dollars and then I had to do the scavenge pump which was a pump that takes the spent oil from the turbos puts it into a t sucks it up and then puts it back into the engine by either the oil tank or the valve cover and that entire set up with the oil fittings and lines and pump and all that stuff and the wiring was eight hundred dollars and then to top it off I have a Superleggera wing that I got from a viewer which needed some work but usually these wings go for anywhere between 1300 and 1800 dollars because their carbon fiber and they look really good they're like a finishing piece on the car but I got mine that needed a little bit of work for six hundred bucks so now comes the moment of truth so I legitimately have not done the the some on this but let's let's just check this so the grand total of the entirety of my spend on this car ninety one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars now that might sound like a lot to you because it is but keep in mind we're talking about a twin-turbocharged freshly painted the wheels are new the tires are new the wheels aren't new but you know what I mean everything is refurbished the car has been rebuilt from the ground up it's had a turbo kit that is custom installed a custom tune on it that runs very well and it's a manual gated transmission which is just going up in price so I think for ninety one thousand you can't find anything like that on the market so that is it I hope you guys enjoyed it I learned a lot today I learned that I didn't spend a hundred thousand dollars on my Lamborghini project and that's always a good thing but that's gonna be phase one that's the end of phase one phase two is beginning for that car and what that means is we're gonna be chasing more power we're gonna be doing race events we're gonna be doing more driving and we're gonna make the car look a little bit different because phase one looks pretty good phase two it's gonna look even better but the ego I'd amongst you know that I am not in my house and the people on my Instagram feed by the way follow if you're not followed they'll know that I am NOT in Florida I'm actually in California and I'm picking up my brand-new car well not brand new I never buy anything brand new but you guys are gonna see it coming soon on my channel so make sure to hit that subscribe button make sure to hit that Bell and you guys I think I think you guys will like it if you like this guy or the project you guys are gonna love this one so until next time this is me reminding you guys that on cars like my Lamborghini Guyardo with a sketchy pass but we turned it into just an awesome awesome speed machine if you guys need to wrench every day [Music] [Music]

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Length: 23min 19sec (1399 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 08 2019