Car and Driver tests Heffner tuned Gallardo LP560-4

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Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4

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Out of all the tuning shops out in the market squeezing that extra performance out of sports cars, one of the most exciting is Heffner Performance. They take the already exotic cars, mostly Lamborghini Gallardos and Ford GTs, and turn them into fire breathing, 800 horsepower beasts.

Our peers Car and Driver magazine have test driven one of their latest monsters based off of a 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4.

By throwing Heffner Performance the keys and paying $39,000, you get in return two low-boost turbos attached to the V-10 that makes an additional 298 horsepower from the original 552. Car and Driver writes “[that] works out to just $130.87 per pony, for a new total of 850.”

The additions add weight, but give the car a better power-to-weight ratio than a Bugatti Veyron. If that’s not enough the shop can tune the engine to run on race fuel and produce an additional 100 horsepower.

The quarter mile tests show that the car will pass the quarter mile marker at 10.4 seconds at 144 mph. They also point out by the time the car reaches 170 miles an hour, it would be one second ahead of the Veyron’s run.

An already expensive car plus a $40k addition to it seems crazy, but when a car approaches Bugatti performance for a fraction of the price, Car and Driver calls it a bargain.

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[Source: Car and Driver]