Michigan Skip

Shows him and his COPO Camaro..


http://www.powerblocktv.com/episodes...gm-copo-camaro

BTC

Those things run 9's? That seems pretty good based on the LT1 times you see in this forum, but did they say they cost $80+K?

matt94z

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There was one at beech bend raceway yesterday running 9.5's.

96capricemgr

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They worry about hundredths and the cars are a bigger part of the ET number than the engine. Some of them use a spintron to design a valvetrain that lofts the valve for lift beyond what the cam and rockers would otherwise offer.

There is a LOT of money and even more effort put into those cars, heck I believe GIZMO once told us he spends more blueprinting heads than we spend on porting................

WS Sick

Yep I recall that thread as well. They have EVERY peice of those cars down to a "T".

GIZMO

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I am slowly working on this one. This is a day one photo.




And this is how she looks now.

Ed Wright

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Those 427"s are fast. I have been working on the tuning for Patterson Racing's COPO, Todd pushed in neutral first pass at the Jegs Sports Nationals a few weeks ago, it went 9.33, which is 1.27 under the NHRA index. Testing here at Tulsa in 1500' air it was blowing the tires off (nice track, wish they could prep it) it was going low 9.50s, actually blue smoke off the tires, not one pass without blipping the throttle to try to hook it. Ran almost 146 MPH every pass. It would be an 8 second car at Atco in the fall.

Many of the blower cars are pushing head gaskets out, as LS1s do when you lean on a boosted one. :-)

I believe they may have dropped the blower versions.

Those are very nice cars. Friend of mine is getting a red one with a 427" in it, along with a 396" & 350" in crates.

BTC

Are they streetable?

joelster

The sad thing about the boosted cars is that they have the blocks with the 6-bolt capability, but the heads are only 4-bolt, and it's not legal to upgrade. Check the block and you'll see the unused bolt holes below the heads:

Ed Wright

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Race cars.

speed_demon24

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Would rather have a cobra jet.

Ed Wright

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The blown CJs are faster than the blown COPO, and stay together.

GIZMO

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The six bolt heads are in the guide.

z_speedfreak

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Nice copo darren! Maybe you could give us a brief n vague run down of what you've done to It so far?

AChotrod

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Darin you still havin fun with the LTs or have you moved on?

CamaroRacing12

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Hes still a bolt on lt guy at heart handsome fella too

joelster

LOL

why does it still say "12 second club" as your title?

CamaroRacing12

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thats a good question. Let me work on getting that changed.

AChotrod

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Lol He is a nice one at that! Whats this you crackin 11s now?

CamaroRacing12

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Ran 11.998 @ 111mph last year