328 GTB

328 GTB (F106) records one precise Ferrari performance-car configuration from 1985–1989. The 328 GTB completed Ferrari’s transverse V8 berlinetta lineage with increased displacement and a carefully bounded final specification.

At its centre is a 3,186 cc naturally aspirated v8 identified as F105CB. Ferrari publishes 199 kW (270 CV) for this scope. A larger four-valve V8, electronic ignition and revised body details evolved the 308 architecture without changing its transverse mid-engine layout.

The engine is installed in a transverse rear-mid engine, rear-wheel drive layout and works through a 5-speed gated manual. Those facts matter acoustically as well as technically: engine position, firing order, induction, gear selection and cabin structure all affect what reaches a listener.

Its nearest passport neighbour in this published sequence is the 308 GTB Quattrovalvole. That relationship supplies chronology, not interchangeable specifications. Ferrari repeatedly evolved its V8 and twelve-cylinder families through body styles, competition derivatives and later technical phases. Keeping each boundary visible prevents attractive but incompatible facts or recordings from migrating between cars.

The listening cues flat-plane V8, gated manual, intake-led, analogue are orientation rather than proof. A cold start can expose idle control and mechanical texture; acceleration can document induction, combustion and shift behaviour; a fly-by can place exhaust and tyre sound in an exterior context.

The focus here is the closed-roof 328 GTB. It excludes the GTS, 308 predecessors, later 348 and cars whose intake or exhaust specification has changed. Many surviving Ferraris have replacement exhausts or other period and modern changes.

It invites cold start, acceleration and fly-by recordings, plus photographs, documents and corrections.

Contributors are therefore asked for capture date, general environment, microphone and recorder details, engine temperature, operating load and any known deviation from factory specification. Private location and ownership details stay out of the public record. This practical metadata lets later researchers distinguish mechanical character from recording technique while leaving room for a corrected identity or a better documented replacement.

Preservation means keeping each claim inspectable and correctable.