You may not have known this, but Lamborghini also manufactured marine engines for many years. Motori Marini Lamborghini engines are based on the original design of the first V12 of the Italian brand, designed by the brilliant Giotto Bizzarrini. We are talking about the Lamborghini Miura engine, speaking in silver. The marine engines also had a vee-shaped twelve-cylinder arrangement, but it was much more wild and powerful than the street engines. The V12 that you will be able to listen to shortly had a whopping 9.3 liter displacement.
Lamborghini never fitted these engines to street vehicles, but few people know that a Lamborghini LM-002 came to be equipped with a 7.2-liter marine engine, called the L804. The engine that stars in this video is its older brother, the L900. It had 9.3 liters and developed 770 CV of power. He was fueled by nothing less than six twin-barrel Weber carburettors, although its ignition was already electronic. This propeller is up for auction on Bring A Trailer, and luckily for us it’s mounted on a stand, not a boat.
There came to be an L804 with 8.2 liters, electronic injection and 940 HP of power. They were used in powerboats.
I say fortunately, because this way we can hear the glorious cold start of this mechanical beast weighing almost 500 kilos. A cold start that culminates in a heavy free-exhaust idle. A delicious internal combustion mechanical symphony, which reaches its climax when the owner accelerates, and in a synchronized way, its six carburettors begin to introduce gasoline into its interior. Its sound is glorious and gives us goosebumps in the best of ways.
