Watch This Driver Shift His Own Gears in an 8-Second Camaro
This Fourth-Gen F-Body looks like a wild, wild ride every inch of the quarter-mile. Is a 7-second time slip the next destination for it?
It takes some real stones to race an eight-second car on the drag strip that has three pedals. And the driver of this fourth-gen Camaro, Ray Bulach, seems to have plenty to spare.
YouTuber BigKleib34 caught Bulach and his absolutely bonkers manual-transmission F-Body at the 2017 Haltech Import vs. Domestic World Cup Finals at Maryland International Dragway. It’s an amazing car that shoots four-foot flames from the bullhorn exhausts. After it launches, it then tries to crab sideways on every shift. As a result, we think the onboard footage might be our favorite from just about any drag car. This looks like a wild ride.
Bulach claims the Camaro holds the record for quickest 6-speed F-Body. He has his sights set on the quickest 6-speed car anywhere and from the massive boost thrown down, we can believe he’s gonna take that honor. He entered the Camaro in the Wild Street category at the World Cup Finals, a class that ran the gamut from the insane all-wheel-drive “Section 8” Honda Civic in the mid-7s down to 9-second Mustangs.
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The blue Camaro qualified 19th in that field with an 8.447-second run. Bulach went quicker in his first-round elimination with an 8.264 at 183 mph, but that wasn’t quick enough to move on. For the Camaro owner, we suspect it was a tough weekend fraught with clutch issues. However, he’s knocking on the door of 7s and has a long winter in Ohio with which to pursue that goal.
Earlier in 2017, Bulach squeezed an incredible 8.06-second pass from the blue monster. That’s not far to go, really, to hold a 7-second time slip. If that’s not enough, the violent F-Body stomped all over the Banger class during King of the Streets at Great Lakes Dragaway near Chicago. If things didn’t go well for Bulach at the World Cup Finals, we will see more of his Camaro in 2018.