Supercharged Camaro SS brings sideshow antics to the main street.
The Fireball Camaro is best-known for being one of the top no-prep racers in the sport, but the team behind that crazy-quick race car also offer high performance packages for street-driven Chevy muscle cars. This includes the Fireball 700 package, which is on display in the video above from the LS Randy YouTube channel.
Fireball 700
If you are unfamiliar with the Fireball Camaro street packages, here is a quick rundown of the 700 package.
As you might have guessed, it is called the Fireball 700 package because the result of the package upgrades is 700 horsepower. To be exact, this package yields 720 horsepower, up from the stock figure of 455 horsepower from the Camaro SS’s LT1 V8. The package achieves this by adding a ProCharger supercharger and a custom engine tune, but the team also adds unique 20-inch wheels, a more prominent front splitter, embroidered headrests and unique exterior badging, all starting at $15,999 (plus the cost of the car itself).
This particular Fireball 700 Camaro is even more powerful, thanks to the addition of a BTR Stage 3 camshaft package, so while we don’t know the actual power, we know that it is over 720 horsepower.
Adding all of that extra power makes the Fireball 700 Camaro a whole lot quicker than the standard SS, but more importantly, it turns the modern Chevy muscle car into a wicked burnout machine.
Fireball Smoke
The video begins with the supercharged Camaro sitting near the camera with the healthy grumble of the cammed and blown LT1 coming from the quad exhaust tips. The driver quickly brings the engine speed up and the back tires begin to spin hard. A few seconds later, smoke pours from both rear tires and as the car begins to slowly roll away from the camera, the smoke show gets even more intense. In the end, this Fireball Camaro ends up laying down hundreds of feet of rubber and it sounds awesome in the process, so crank up your speakers and enjoy.
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