Zee09
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God help you if you need to change lanes and check your blind spot....
The Demon destroys if you can keep the tires from spinning !!$105,500…not street legal….castrated down to 430hp for NHRA homologation….and a Demon would destroy it….
That whole 430hp thing for NHRA homologation must be a nudge and a wink between GM and the NHRA. Maybe the car is considered stock even after cam, carburetor, headers, and exhaust system mods. I can see them putting a really mild peanut port cam and small carb on it, then it becomes easy to make 400 extra HP once the choke points have been fixed. Then it'll run with the Demon. Come to think of it, Demon's don't do their 9-second thing until after the contents of the Demon crate have been installed.$105,500…not street legal….castrated down to 430hp for NHRA homologation….
They're race cars, designed and configured to compete in a class with specific rules.
A COPO Camaro (or a Mustang Cobra Jet or Challenger Drag Pak) could be run in any number of Sportsman, Super Street, Stock Eliminator, or Super Stock classes. Some classes are grouped on power to weight ratio (which is why the engines have very specific outputs) and race on an index, other classes are grouped by weight to displacement with an index, Sportsman classes are bracket racing.
This is the intent of the platform. You can race that 572 with the 430 HP tune in a Super Stock class that's classed based on HP to weight or you could choose to run the smaller LS-based 5.7l with the supercharger in a Comp Eliminator class that runs based on weight to displacement.
How fast can they be?
The chassis are certified to 7.50 and they're just about there.
NHRA has a specific class for the fastest COPO, Cobra Jet, and Drag Pak cars called Factory Stock Showdown. As expected, there are rules: Engine displacement, supercharger displacement, supercharger pulley size, and weight are all factored.
Even with the NHRA holding the leash, the fastest Factory Stock Showdown cars are running 7.6x @ 18x mph.
So, yeah, they're faster than a Demon.
A COPO Camaro (or a Mustang Cobra Jet or Challenger Drag Pak) could be run in any number of Sportsman, Super Street, Stock Eliminator, or Super Stock classes. Some classes are grouped on power to weight ratio (which is why the engines have very specific outputs) and race on an index, other classes are grouped by weight to displacement with an index, Sportsman classes are bracket racing.
This is the intent of the platform. You can race that 572 with the 430 HP tune in a Super Stock class that's classed based on HP to weight or you could choose to run the smaller LS-based 5.7l with the supercharger in a Comp Eliminator class that runs based on weight to displacement.
How fast can they be?
The chassis are certified to 7.50 and they're just about there.
NHRA has a specific class for the fastest COPO, Cobra Jet, and Drag Pak cars called Factory Stock Showdown. As expected, there are rules: Engine displacement, supercharger displacement, supercharger pulley size, and weight are all factored.
Even with the NHRA holding the leash, the fastest Factory Stock Showdown cars are running 7.6x @ 18x mph.
So, yeah, they're faster than a Demon.
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A quick search located some V8 Camaro's at Park Chevrolet in Richmond, VA, Kernersville, NC, and Charlotte, NC. Terry Labonte Chevrolet has some as does Hendrick Chevrolet.
Certainly much less common than the 4 cylinder though.
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