Stalled for 2 years, this Lamborghini Murciélago is deemed irreparable by a garage: he's going to try to save it.

At DC Motorworks, every Murciélago is a promise of technical challenges, sleepless nights and, above all, great stories to tell. After having resurrected a Murciélago bought on the cheapand the famous "Lamborghini Victoria's Secret" brought back to life, the American workshop proves once again that an Italian V12 is never really lost, provided it falls into the right hands.

This time, it all starts in Ohio, at a Cannonball rally. It's there that the owner of this 2009 Murciélago LP 640 Roadster crosses paths with the DC Motorworks team. His car, black with yellow calipers, is seductive and yet.., it's been virtually unusable for two years: the fault of a temperamental e-gearbox.

For almost three years, the owner tried everything. New clutch kit, actuator repaired, engine disassembled and reassembled three times... Nothing to be done. Each repair seemed to breathe new life into the car, before the gearbox failed again, bringing the Italian beauty to a standstill. Out of patience, he decided to call in DC Motorworks.

Arriving in the state of Georgia on a platter, the Murciélago begins its renaissance. In the video, the workshop owner doesn't mince his words: "These boxes are fantastic... as long as you follow everything to the letter. The slightest misadjustment and everything falls apart. Their conclusion? The actuator was at fault, but not only that. The gear selector forks had been out of adjustment, making self-learn impossible. As a result, the car simply refused to shift.

DC Motorworks gets to the root of the problem. First, using a special alignment jig not found elsewhere, they recalibrate the entire transmission to the nearest micron.

Then, as luck would have it, they found the last new actuator supplied by Lamborghini. Without this part, restarting the engine would undoubtedly have been more difficult.

A few hours of fine-tuning later, the Murciélago roars back to life. Once the V12 is up and running, the gears shift with the precision of a scalpel. Everything's back to normal: the Corsa mode makes the 6.5-liter engine roar at over 8,000 rpm, and the exhaust screams its symphony. A well-deserved reward after two years (and thousands of dollars) of downtime.

In passing, the DC Motorworks boss puts in a friendly word for those who start converting these e-gear automatics to manual gearboxes. "Many tinker with a lever and think that's enough. But without original parts and without respecting tolerances, it's heresy. Nothing beats a preserved Murciélago, with its well-tuned robotized gearbox, a piece of history we'll never see again."

The result? The owner finally gets his Murciélago back, more alive than ever. For DC Motorworks, it's yet another victory proving that with passion, know-how and special tools, even supercars deemed beyond repair can be repaired.