Warwick Gilchrist's 1971 FAZA/Filipinetti 128 Rally

(with std rear panel tacked on)

  • 1290cc SOHC
  • Twin 45 Webbers
  • Custom grind cam (I still dont know what this was but it made more tourque then the one the car came with!)
  • 1100cc Head, Big Valves and Flowed to Perfection.
  • Dino Con-Rods
  • High Compression Pistons
  • Standard Crank
  • Lightened Fly Wheel
  • AP Clutch
  • Alloy Sump
  • Devil Exhaust Headers w/ Custom Collector and Flowmaster Side Exit Exhaust.

  • 4-speed Close-Ratio
  • Collotti LSD

  • Lowered All Around (110mm ground clearance)
  • Secial ORSA Front Struts and Springs
  • 3-piece Rear Spring w/ Offset Spindles & Heavy Duty Shocks
  • 25mm Front Swaybar, 18mm Rear Swaybar
  • No Rubber in the Suspension - All Rose Joints or Alloy Bushes.

  • 6x13 Campagnolo
  • 205/60/13 Hankook z2000 Dot Race Rubber

  • Front Disc/Rear Drum

  • Flared Guards (fibreglass) Front and Rear
  • FIA Spec Roll Cage
  • Alloy Fuel Cell
  • Perspex Windows
  • Bonnet & Boot Lightened to FIA Specs (gutted steel)
  • Solid Motor Mounts

  • Race Seat, etc.


    Scuderia Filipinetti team car #1 for 1971 FIA events. Sold to Al Cosentino (FAZA) in 1972. Raced SCCA events 1972-1981. Brought to NZ in 1996. Freshened and started racing again in Feb 1997.
    Great car, and involved one of the biggest learning curves of my life. A well built 128 such as this is hard to beat, they go hard and handle like a dream, this one eats Minis and Alfa Suds all day and generally dosent break... Now owned by a Pizza guy in Christchurch, New Zealand and hopefully still racing, I miss this car a lot :(

    Warwick Gilchrist warwick_g@yahoo.com
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