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My everyday driver is a 1971 4-door that has a Regata 85s 1500 with worked head, 35-75 cam, twin 40 DCNFs, ANSA 4-2-1 headers, 5-speed conversion with LSD, period Koni red single adjustables all round, lowered front and stiffened and lowered rear spring.
Pictured at speed on back straight of Baskerville Raceway on silver PCW wheels with 195/55/15s and in every day road trim on black Performance wheels with 185/65 14s (one with my daughter grinning from ear to ear after her first solo drive in it).
 

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$1MBambino said:
My first post...
My everyday driver is a 1971 4-door that has a Regata 85s 1500 with worked head, 35-75 cam, twin 40 DCNFs, ANSA 4-2-1 headers, 5-speed conversion with LSD, period Koni red single adjustables all round, lowered front and stiffened and lowered rear spring.
Pictured at speed on back straight of Baskerville Raceway on silver PCW wheels with 195/55/15s and in every day road trim on black Performance wheels with 185/65 14s (one with my daughter grinning from ear to ear after her first solo drive in it).
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Amazing car love the patina. Question: how did you do the five speed conversion?
 
Thanks, yes it has a well used patina and has been a track-day car for many years. The gearbox for some reason is a 4-speed and converted to 5-speed before my ownership. I had assumed it was a Regata box until a few years ago when the starter died and my spare 5-speed starter did not fit, so had to find a 4-speed starter...
It has 12 mm spacers that lower the anti roll bar away from the chassis to give clearance between anti roll bar and the extended gearbox end cap (for 5th gear). This took out a lot of caster, so it has thin steel bushes to locate the anti roll bar in the control arm (about 1/2 thickness compared to the original rubber bush) to give more caster and a much more positive location of the anti roll bar - control arm.

These are pictures of my son's 4-door (we are a 128 family!). It is totally stripped at the moment having a few rust and dent repairs. Regata 85s 1500 and 5-speed box, Zastava 101 anti roll bar to clear 5-speed gearbox end housing, 4-2-1 Fiatorque headers, Lancia Beta coupe 2000 Weber 34 DATR (25/27 chokes), Bertone X1/9 Bosch electronic ignition, unknown head work and cam (but it goes like anything). We rescued it from a farm paddock over 10 years ago and it had been sitting there since 2001. Surprisingly little rust. The bloke we got it from threw in a set (front and back) of still new in box Koni red inserts that were sitting in his shed for 15 years and he never installed. It is now on lowered Fiatorque springs, 3-leaf rear with the Koni inserts in original rebuildable strut housings. It was given the engine swap and gangster look back in the 1990s and my son has now removed the window tint and got a set of Cromodora CD91 wheels for it, He is also contemplating making it a dedicated race car while it is stripped.
Pics of his car (dark blue) before we owned it on display at Hobart Parliament lawn with 3 other 2-doors, pic of gangster look, CD91s and repairs under way.
 

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Just so you know, Classic Performance in Croatia have the 5 speed sway bar available for just 130€.... But it seems like you made it work..😁
 
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Doesn't anyone else drive a 128? I feel a little guilty posting all these pics...🫣
(Not really though 😸) I am using it as a daily driver these days, so there's bound to be some photo opportunities...
 
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