Fifth-gen Camaro Could Give Team RTR a Real Run for Their Money
LS3, simple angle mods and a beefy roll cage make this Camaro the ultimate drift party animal.
If you watch any drifting-based competitions or even just Formula Drift, there are all sorts of cars pop up at these events. The most well-known drifters in the world are the Nissan 240sx builds. If there is a drift event, there will probably be at least one of them there. However, something we don’t see often enough is Camaros! We don’t exactly understand why we don’t see them—on paper, they have the perfect specs. Power and control is everything in drifting and without a doubt a fifth-gen can provide both.
Because the car is uncommon at these types of events, it gives it a certain cool factor that other more run-of-the-mill drift cars can’t have. Hopefully this video will get some of you guys a little bit more excited to see what exactly you can do with a fifth-generation Camaro. Thanks to Hoonigan on YouTube, we get to see a pro drift Camaro in the flesh.
The owner of this 2010 Camaro is Alex Grimm, Formula Drift Pro 2 Driver, who built this car to compete in the class. For those that don’t know, Pro 2 is the feeder series for Formula Drift Pro, the series everybody talks about. However, these Pro 2 cars maintain mostly every single standard required by the major series. So these cars are built with that in mind, because if you do get upgraded to Pro, then your car has be within the regulations.
Grimm stated that when he bought the car, he bought it as a bare shell and built it from the ground up. The Camaro features a naturally-aspirated LS3 with a rear mounted radiator (like most pro drift cars). He says the motor is mostly stock plus a cam and makes around 500 HP to the crank. The front-end needs to be removable quickly in case of an engine swap or a crash, so that’s the reason they are built this way. Grimm does however have a oil cooler mounted to the front grill.
For suspension, Grimm built the angle kit himself and it uses an S14 240sx steering knuckle. He also built the hydraulic hand brake himself by hand-milling it. It would be best to let you guys know that Grimm is the owner of a manufacturing shop and that enables himself to build a lot of this stuff on his own. Although the initial purpose was to compete in Pro 2, Grimm says he is more interested in pure seat time and having fun now. Currently he is only competing with the car in Pro-Am. We salute you Mr. Grimm, the car is unique and properly bad-ass.
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