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In most cases, our drag racing segments feature Camaros, Corvettes or some other high performance GM product blasting down the quarter mile. Also, they usually feature said GM’s beating up on something from Ford or Chrysler. Today, we take a slightly different approach, focusing instead on some interesting facts on one of the quickest door-slammer Camaros in the world Jeg Coughlin"s 2016 Chevrolet Camaro Pro Stock race car.If you are unfamiliar with Jeg Coughlin"s Chevrolet Camaro, or the world of NHRA Pro Stock drag racing as a whole, it’s time to get learned. This particular Camaro race car can blast down the quarter mile in the mid-to-low 6-second range. It reaches speeds well over 200 miles per hour on the big end. However, today"s video doesn"t actually show Coughlin"s Camaro making a quarter mile pass. Instead we get to run through some of the crazy facts of the National Hot Rod Association’s Pro Stock category.Here are the numbers.Jeg"s Camaro in the Pro Stock class looks a great deal more like a production car than, say, John Force"s Camaro funny car. However, there are few similarities between this bright yellow Camaro race car and the average Camaro on the street.The Camaro street car has a 110 inch wheelbase, while the Jeg"s Camaro is slightly shorter between the wheels, measuring just 105 inches. The 2017 Camaro SS coupe has a curb weight around 4,000lbs with a driver. On the flip side, Jeg"s Camaro weighs just 2,350lbs with the Coughlin strapped into the driver"s seat. Most importantly, however, while the standard new Camaro SS on the street offers 455 horsepower Jeg"s race car packs a whopping 1,380 horsepower. It burns a full gallon of fuel when it rips down the quarter mile.A 2,350lb Camaro race car with 1,380 horsepower is capable of running through the quarter mile at well over 200 miles per hour. But in order to get there, Coughlin has to manually shift the transmission 5 times in less than 4 seconds.At launch, the huge rear tires only have 6 pounds of air pressure in them. The traction from those tires is so great that the wheelie bars see more than 3,000lbs of force. Finally, while this Camaro runs from 0-60mph in just one second, the driver experiences over 3 Gs of force on launch. To slow it down, more than -2 Gs of force are created when the parachute opens at the end of the run.Tags: 6th Gen Camaro, camaro, chevrolet Camaro, drag race monday, Pro Stock
Date written: August 21, 2017
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 8900
In most cases, our drag racing segments feature Camaros, Corvettes or some other high performance GM product blasting down the quarter mile. Also, they usually feature said GM’s beating up on something from Ford or Chrysler. Today, we take a slightly different approach, focusing instead on some interesting facts on one of the quickest door-slammer Camaros in the world Jeg Coughlin"s 2016 Chevrolet Camaro Pro Stock race car.If you are unfamiliar with Jeg Coughlin"s Chevrolet Camaro, or the world of NHRA Pro Stock drag racing as a whole, it’s time to get learned. This particular Camaro race car can blast down the quarter mile in the mid-to-low 6-second range. It reaches speeds well over 200 miles per hour on the big end. However, today"s video doesn"t actually show Coughlin"s Camaro making a quarter mile pass. Instead we get to run through some of the crazy facts of the National Hot Rod Association’s Pro Stock category.Here are the numbers.Jeg"s Camaro in the Pro Stock class looks a great deal more like a production car than, say, John Force"s Camaro funny car. However, there are few similarities between this bright yellow Camaro race car and the average Camaro on the street.The Camaro street car has a 110 inch wheelbase, while the Jeg"s Camaro is slightly shorter between the wheels, measuring just 105 inches. The 2017 Camaro SS coupe has a curb weight around 4,000lbs with a driver. On the flip side, Jeg"s Camaro weighs just 2,350lbs with the Coughlin strapped into the driver"s seat. Most importantly, however, while the standard new Camaro SS on the street offers 455 horsepower Jeg"s race car packs a whopping 1,380 horsepower. It burns a full gallon of fuel when it rips down the quarter mile.A 2,350lb Camaro race car with 1,380 horsepower is capable of running through the quarter mile at well over 200 miles per hour. But in order to get there, Coughlin has to manually shift the transmission 5 times in less than 4 seconds.At launch, the huge rear tires only have 6 pounds of air pressure in them. The traction from those tires is so great that the wheelie bars see more than 3,000lbs of force. Finally, while this Camaro runs from 0-60mph in just one second, the driver experiences over 3 Gs of force on launch. To slow it down, more than -2 Gs of force are created when the parachute opens at the end of the run.Tags: 6th Gen Camaro, camaro, chevrolet Camaro, drag race monday, Pro Stock
Date written: August 21, 2017
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 8900
