FERRARI 288 GTO

Classics @ the Le Mans classic by Ratet B
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Damn! Missed that one

Gr. Martin

 

Great series of images of a previously discussed 288 GTO by Arnaud Bailly deserves to be shared there I think.
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Very nice!

Gr. Martin

 

Compared today the original exhaust to the Megaphone exhaust.


Megaphone: 8kg
Original: 13kg


Our car will be 5 kg heavier today. Just to try, if it smoothen the ride a bit, like cleaning the BOVs and the Wastegate did.

 

I find they run better in the Megaphone pipes for obvious reasons. Let us know what you find out.

 

The opposit.

Much more low and mid range torque. Runs much much smoother. But I´m missing the sound and the design...

Now the car can be driven in higher gears through town.

 

Well, if that is what you will use the 288 GTO for, I completely understand!

 

Hi,
I just cleaned the BOVs and the Wastegate for the GTO a few days ago.


I noticed, that the parts book is wrong. The piston (55) is interchanged with the spring guide (56). So, on the side of the vacuum pipe, not the piston, but the spring guide has to be.

Cleaning gave good improvement. Now, together with the original exhaust, the car totaly transformed and is very smooth and soo easy to drive.

Drove today and had the feeling, the turbos spool up faster.
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Nice to see another owner who enjoys getting greasy.

 

Excellent work & thanks for sharing!

 

It did about $1.05M all in.

 

i have both the stock and megaphones. i had occasion to try both again when i did classiche as i had to switch back to stock. i find megaphone better in all respects - town and otherwise

 

No surprise there.

 

Our tradition of supplying award-winning cars continues as 288 GTO 54805 won not only an FCA Platinum award but also the FCA "Best V8" at Concorso Italiano for our client Henry B.

 

54805 accepting awards
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car looks great. so based on gooding sale of $1,045 what is the new range for 288s, $900-$1,100 ?

 

Wider than that. $800k to $1.25m will cover most good cars.

 

This may be a pedestrian question: are there "bad" cars out there? Do folks actually neglect and defer maintenance on 288's?

 

Sure.

 

i only quickly scanned the 300+ pages here so hope not a repost ...article from C&D september 1984
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Excellent job scanning! Martyn Goddard actually later sold copyright to those images to me. He tells me the story of shooting Dario Benuzzi in the GTO on Fiorano from in front of the guard rail to get those 'drifting' shots . Brave!

 

cool stuff, i only scan these for here and enjoyment and further the most excellent thread!
i suppose at the time the 288 was just a new Ferrari to them, and meant to tear around the track

 

Indeed. In 1984 Group B aspirations were still a reality.

 

Thanks for posting! The last paragraph is very profound I think, I have a saying when it comes to Ferrari "To understand the present one needs to understand the past"