LS-Swapped Lamborghini Murcielago Is an Interesting, Stealthy Build: Track Time Tuesday
Most would be hard-pressed to tell that this well-done LS-swapped Lamborghini Murcielago isn’t rocking the original V12.
We’ve certainly seen our fair share of interesting and unique LS swaps over the years, but we’re also continuously coming across new builds that blow our collective minds. The latest is this – an LS-swapped Lamborghini Murcielago, which was just purchased – not built – by mega popular YouTuber Cleetus McFarland.
Those that are familiar with McFarland’s work know that such a machine is a perfect fit for his channel, but he won’t exactly be keeping it or wrenching on it, as the LS-swapped Lamborghini Murcielago is actually going to be awarded to the winner of this year’s Freedom 500.
That event is, of course, a redneck-style NASCAR-type race where 21 people race nitrous-equipped Crown Victoria sedans around a Florida-based track. The Murcie is quite the prize that should motivate the participants to give it their all out there, at the very least.
The GM-powered Lambo actually looks to be in decent shape, but when one pops the hood, you’d be hard-pressed to tell what you’re looking at – until you see that old truck throttle body staring at you underneath the Lamborghini dressing.
Yes, this exotic isn’t powered by some new crate LS-based motor or even something like a supercharged LT4 – rather, it’s rocking a good old-fashioned 5.3-liter V8. There are still four Lambo throttle bodies in there for show, but they’re obviously not functional, and the car even a Capristo exhaust with a special valve, so it sort of sounds like it still has the original V12 under hood.
Amazingly, everything on the car works perfectly, and McFarland is surprised that the swap is so well-done. In many cases, cars like this are slapped together on extreme budgets with plenty of shortcuts taken mostly because, well, you are installing an engine that wasn’t designed to go in it in the first place.
But in this case, the person that put this Murcielago together did a heck of a job. And even if the car might actually be slower than it was from the factory in its current state, as we all well know, that can be fixed rather easily, too.
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