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Builder of high-performance Corvettes and GTOs plans to head to the Nurburgring with a modified 2010 V6 Camaro and a Nissan GT-R.

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DAKMOR

lol at the comment about street tires for the GT-R. more power to these guys even if they're dumb to do rearmount.

2010SSVERT

Should be interesting, can't wait for the results.

AdioSS

wow! I know the owner of that place. It isn't TOO far from where I live. A bunch of my friends went there for a Dyno Day last weekend too.

SSbaby

Remote mounted turbos? Doesn't sound like the real deal to me. Lag anyone?

Zigroid

remote mounted turbos work just fine when done properly.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Performance, Chevrolet


Must. Beat. Godzilla. For some reason. Here's the skinny. A tuner company called East Texas Muscle Cars is fitting a couple of turbos to a 2010 V6 Camaro in order to "beat" the 'Ring time laid down by none other than the Nissan GT-R. That leaves us with two questions then: how and why?

Lots of folks are going to buy V6 Camaros, grok the 304 hp V6, scratch their heads and say, "More power." In other words, there's a market. ETMC will rip the guts come out of the 3.6-liter LLT and throw in forged rods, crank and pistons. And then, of course, you get the two Squires Turbo Systems turbos. These are remote-mounted turbos that bolt up under the car near the exhaust. With such a system, you're basically trading a bit of lag for increased cooling and no need to mess around with new headers. East Texas thinks they can wring 500 horses out of the system no problem.

Then there's the matter of dealing with the stock Camaro's "tremendous understeer and cradle walk." That's pretty necessary if you want to do battle with a R35, which neither understeers nor cradle walks nor really does anything bad or sloppy. East Texas Muscle Cars will be addressing those issues via harder bushings and Pedders coil-overs, along with a Baer big brake kit and lightweight forged 20-inch wheels.

Then there's the question: Why? Why go after Godzilla, such a high profile target? Unless you're building Clubber Lang, why call out Rocky? Publicity, obviously. Would we even be writing about a bolt-on turbo kit for a V6 Camaro unless they pubically challenged one of the production car 'Ring masters? Probably not. But there is one part of their scheme that we do like. Once the Camaro is finished, ETMC will be flying it and a friend's stock GT-R out to Germany to run 'em both simultaneously. Since that's the case, no need to even mention the inherent fallacy of Nurburgring lap records. Good luck boys.


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HAZ-Matt

I'm sorry but this seems laughable to me.

For one thing the remote mount turbos are not going to be in the same league in responsiveness as the ones mounted up front in the GTR. Is there absolutely no way to do a front mount on the 5th Gen? Then you have the fact that the car weighs practically the same as a GTR but without the help of computer controlled AWD. DSG versus traditional manual? Electronically controlled dampers?

I don't doubt that you could do it, but you could probably buy a Camaro and GTR for what it will cost. And you wouldn't be throwing on some random readily available aftermarket parts to do so.

97z28/m6

it is but it makes for good pr.

2010SSVERT

From my understanding the whole point to the rear mount turbos is that you can do it in your garage.

That Camaro Guy

I'd like to see more of this when the car is finished. Using two smaller turbos will probably cut down on the lag, which will help with where they're mounted.