Ferrari Mailing List: Ferrari 288 GTO - books

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

For those of you who really love the 288 GTO, I can highly recommend these two books:

 

Jurgen Lewandowski’s “Ferrari GTO – Art & Car Edition”

 

Joe Sackey’s “The Book of the Ferrari 288 GTO”

 

I’d argue Jurgen’s book is the best for development detail. It includes many sketches, technical drawings and a beautiful cross-section blue print of the production engine. Also mentioned is a little known detail that the original prototype engine was carbureted, not injected! It produced healthy numbers (around 370HP reliably, but they did squeeze 400HP out of it). They saw the writing on the wall and went with the Weber-Marelli engine management system instead. The also went with IHI turbos as they had less lag (the turbo carb’d engine was much too punchy). Great behind the scenes stories too from Leonardo Fioravanti and Nicola Materazzi.

 

Joe Sackey’s book is great for concours details and has a complete serial number database (specs and location).

 

Peter

 

 

 

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