The Huracan Performante is a huge improvement over the standard-issue Huracan: 40 kg (88 lbs) lighter, 30 hp (23 kW) stronger and fitted with a superior aero kit, it blazes through the North Loop in 6:52, leaving the four-times-as-expensive Porsche 918 behind. But the tuners can’t just leave good enough alone, can they?
This particular Lambo is a project by VF Engineering. At its very core sits the VF8XX Hypercharger Kit, which lifts the output of the stock V10 5.2 to 830 hp (620 kW) and 814 Nm (600 lb-ft). Aside from the new intercooler and extensive ECU tuning, the setup includes a high-end supercharger (Eaton TVS2300 4-lobe Twin Vortices Series) with 6.5 psi of boost pressure. The compression ratio could be even higher if it weren’t for the transmission limitations.
The results are frankly quite astonishing. The 830-hp VF8XX Lamborghini Huracan Performante hits 100 km/h (62 mph) in 2.4 seconds, runs the quarter-mile strip in 10.1 s accelerating to 223 km/h (138 mph) as it does so, and hits 290 km/h (180 mph) in mere 20.6 seconds from the launch. These aren’t theoretical calculations, either: VF Engineering has run all the tests in Mojave Desert, California.