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The Car

The birth of the 9006 Racing ZL1 Camaro

Type of Racing

This car was purchased with the intention of racing in street and real street classes at land speed racing events, such as those hosted by ECTA, SCTA and at the Bonneville Salt Flats during Speed Week. As the car and team evolve, these changes comply with ECTA and SCTA AA/BFALT land speed classes.

The racing style begins with a standing start. The goal is to achieve as much speed as possible over the course of a measured distance. Typically, 1/2, 1 or 1.5 miles. Airport runways are often the venue and pavement common. Other events offer courses of dirt and the grandaddy of all is the Salt Flats of Bonneville where the course is salt and up to 7 miles long. 

Modifications & Upgrades

The Beginning

Team 9006 Racing Camaro is a 2014, 5th generation ZL1 Camaro. Purchased new in October 2013, the factory 580 hp, 6.2L supercharged LSA engine comes with ride control, a fully independent suspension, huge 15” Brembo 6 piston brakes. It is capable of reaching 0 to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds, 1/4 mile in 12 seconds @ 119 mph and a top speed of 184 mph.

In mid-winter of 2013-14, and with 907 miles on the odometer, the car was shipped to Lingenfelter Performance Engineering in Decatur, IN for a performance upgrade. This included:

  • Bigger competition cam shaft
  • Porting and polishing
  • Reseating and installing with inconnel and hollow stem valves, springs and retainers
  •  Change head bolts and gaskets
  •  Change to 2.55″ supercharger pulley
  •  Install LS-9 solid supercharger isolator coupling
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  • Polish supercharger snout
  • Change to Lingenfelter 10% overdrive pulley
  • Increase to 63 lbs per hour furl injectors
  • ECM tuning and chassis dyno testing to certify 730 wheel horsepower

Advanced Chassis installed an 8 point roll cage with door bars, removed and replaced the drivers seat with a race seat. 

More Upgrades Over the Years

Additional upgrades in the following years included removing the all aluminum 6.2L (383ci) engine and rebuilding it by boring the cylinders and stroking to 417ci. Internally are: 

  • Callis 4340 forged steel Magnum- crankshaft eight bolt flange – 58x reluctor
  • Oliver 4340 billet steel 6.125 I-beam connecting rods
  • Forged aluminum pistons with LS lifters and guides
  • LSU series engine high volume oil pump kit and on and on.
  • Replaced the stock 1.8L supercharger with a new Magnuson Heartbeat TVS2300 supercharger
  • Custom manufactured 102mm supercharger snout and change to 102mm throttle body
  • Change to Squash double fuel pumps and increasing the fuel injectors 168 pounds per hour
  • Freshen the heads and re-grind valves and upgrade to double springs
  • Magnecor custom plug wires with Koolsox insulators
  • Adding Nitrous Outlet 100 shot nitrous
  • Increasing the Nitrous tank sizes from 15# to 30# and mounting with integral heaters
  • Additional intercoolers with radiators and fans
  • Add 7-gallon chiller tank
  • Completely stainless long tube American racing headers, Camaro Corsa SS exhaust and mufflers
  • Switch from pump 93 octane and race fuel to E-85 fuel and pump methanol fuels

We also:

  • Strengthened the frame and roll cage supports to bring safety standards up to comply with ECTA and SCTA rules for up to 250 mph speeds.
  • Dyno testing at 1,170 hp on motor and 1,300 on nitrous. additional changes
  • Increasing supercharger speed and nitrous jet size before the last 208.82 mph at the Arkansas Mile in April 2019

What’s Happening Today

Currently the chassis is undergoing major upgrades at Advanced Chassis in Antwerp, OH. These changes will help with strength, weight and safety. These changes include:

  • Completely remove the OEM independent rear suspension and replace with a fabricated Strange, Ford 9″ rear housing
  • 35 spline hollow drilled spindles
  • 3.0 gear 3rd member, coil overs, 4 link suspension, driveline safety hoops
  • Remove and replace the complete OEM front frame, firewall forward, steering and suspension, shock towers
  • Install tubular K-member, fit all 4 wheels with spindles and disc brakes to accommodate 15″ super speedway wheels
  • Roll cage upgrades to NHRA funny car drivers enclosure, plus frame stiffening and associated tubing to meet 25.5 standards
  • Moving seat rearward, changing out the dash and steering column to accept a removable steering wheel
  • Front and center solid mounts to accept a BBC engine (In February 2020, we bought this engine in new condition with a few 1/4 mile test passes on it.)

Once these changes are complete the chassis will be delivered to: Mid America Kustoms, Fort Wayne, IN. The to-do list will include installing the engine (listed below), and plumbing two turbo chargers, intercoolers and a new Holley EFI engine control.

BBC Engine Specifications:

  • 572 cubic inch Brodix turbo motor
  • 11.8:1 compression

  • Brodix aluminum 10.2 deck .400″ raised cam, half solid casting, 55mm roller cam bearing, HIP block (Very nice block)

  • Heads are Brodix 383 cnc Head hunters with the moved centerline

  • Titanium intake valves

  • Inconel exhaust valves

  • PAC springs

  • Jesel shaft rockers

  • Manton 7/16″ pushrods
  • AJPE 481x top fuel hoops

  • Clark copper gaskets

  • Lifters are Jesel .905 body bushing rollers

  • GRP pro rods with 7/16 bolts

  • Billet Bryant crankshaft

  • Custom Diamond pistons with Trend pins

  • Billet spur gear oil pump

  • Jesel belt drive

  • Brodix intake cnc port matched to heads and EFI converted
  • Wilson elbow and throttle body

  • JW HD flexplate

  • Powermaster ultra torque starter

  • ATI damper

  • MSD crank trigger setup

  • Aluminum valve covers with Cunningham Machine quick disconnect breathers

  • Distributor, headers, injectors, and fuel pump not included

  • Throttle body, elbow, intake to pan, valve covers, fuel rails with lines included

Stay tuned!