Help me survive another year OTR

Yeah, I'm still paying on it. I've got 10k+ equity in the car itself. It could be sold tomorrow if I decided that was the way to go. I've had dealers offer me 40k for the thing just driving in to get general maintenance. Lol. If I stay over the road I'll have a title by January or February.

 

2018 Mosaic Black metallic Camaro SS 6 speed.
Stock bottom end, flycut pistons, 233/257 639/639 cam. Johnson race lifters, dual valve springs, ported and milled heads. 12:33:1 compression. MSD 103mm intake manifold, katech 1033mm throttle body. ATI super damper underdrive pulley. Runs on any mix of 93 and e85. American Racing 2" headers into 3" xpipe. Monster triple disk clutch, hurst short throw, one piece 1000hp drivrshaft, 1400hp axle half shafts. 2 step launch control and line lock. Made 568 horse power and 490 pounds of torque to the wheels on e85. Horsepower peaks at 6800rpm and carries to 7200rpm without failing off at all. I haven't really got a good shakedown run yet. I was cutting 1.6 sixty foots before I opened the motor from a 4500rpm clutch dump. It was on weld s71 17x10s in the rear with Mickey Thompson ET street R bias ply tires. After the cam it just roasted the tires off the line and would break in the upper rpm range. I shifted at 6500 and still trapped 121. It should trap at 126+ with good air and traction. I've got a set of 15x10 beadlocks and some 28x10.5 big boy slicks to go on in order to fix my traction problem. I'll get some pics uploaded later

Bought it last year in January with 5k miles on it. Only 33k. Had a 49k msrp. That first owner really took a bath on it. Lol.

 

Yeah, it's completely daily drivable. The factory clutch had a dual mass flywheel and made it drive like junk. Once I swapped that out, it drives better than stock. Even with that big of a cam. The direct injection on the GM Gen 5 engines makes drivability wonderful. I built it as a bullet proof street car that could take abuse at the track and hurt some feelings. So, it's still full weight minus the drag pack that only gets put on for the track. As far as an auto, it would be easier to hook and easier on the drivetrain but I've always loved rowing my own gears. Autos now days are faster but I'm not trying to bracket race or set records. I just want to have fun and that involves a manual. Nothing like hooking off a high rpm clutch dump.

 

I agree. When I first started doing this, if it wasn't a race built th350 or th400 in a car making comparable power, I'd hurt their feelings. Always seemed like the corvette guys cried the hardest lol. Now, the autos are so efficient and always in peak power with their 8 and 10 speeds its hard and expensive for a manual to compete.