Partly due to the Transformers movie but largely due to its good looks and performance, Chevy’s 5th-gen Camaro is a very popular car with tuners and enthusiasts alike. It has found adherents in track and drag racers both and one of the tuners that has favored this platform is Lingenfelter Performance Engineering. This tuner has been modifying Chevy’s products for over 30 years, so when they set out to modify a 5th gen Camaro for the drag strip, it was with this 3 decades of knowledge and experience that enabled them to come up with a car that has more than 1,200 horsepower and 1,300 foot pounds of torque at the rear wheels.
Starting with the 6.2 liter LS9 engine as its base, Lingenfelter fitted 8.5:1 forged JE pistons, production GM LS9 crankshaft, titanium connecting rods, ported LS9 cylinder heads with OEM titanium intake valves and sodium-filled hollow stem exhaust valves, a Lingenfelter cam, GM LS9 Eaton TVS2300 supercharger and an LS9 dual-intercooled upper manifold. A 450 hp nitrous system, dry sump lubrication and an open exhaust fed by 2-inch primaries was also fitted. Controlling this potential mayhem are Lingenfelter-designed electronics in conjunction with Racelogic VBox III GPS data logging. A triple-plate carbon clutch and reinforced TR6060 transmission with stock 2010 Camaro gear sets drives the 9.5 inch diff with a 4.10:1 ring and pinion. 12-inch wide tires ensure a proper hookup.
With a race weight of about 4075 lbs including driver, the Camaro has done a best time of 8.9 seconds in the quarter mile. Horsepower calculations reveal that this car’s power-to-weight ratio would be around 709 hp per ton. Even with this kind of performance, Lingenfelter was able to retain the OEM stereo system and airconditioning. Today’s cars are really marvels of engineering. Only a decade ago, 1,200 horsepower cars would not have been able to retain these creature comforts.
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