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what's up guys I wanna give you a quick message before we get into today's video if you were gonna be in the Southern California area or anywhere near Temecula this Saturday April 28th then head on down to Temecula and check out camaro con there are gonna be hundreds and hundreds of Camaros taken over the parking lot and what is going to be a really fun car show and I'm gonna be there of course with the car you're about to see in this video I will be hanging out at the fast tech booth so I'd love to meet you guys if you're gonna be in the area come on by say hi and see some really cool cars ones that definitely make mine look like a chump all right enough of that I'm gonna go ahead and get started with the video hey what's up guys Jase - since he and I'm reading kind of a bonus video about cars and stuff things that interest me other than tech so if you're not into that sort of video then this is probably not the one for you what's up guys Jase - since here and you may not know this but I actually bought a new car you guys know I had nizzy my 370z Nismo I still have that car and it's still a track car but I bought something new and I've been tracking it and I think it's finally about time I make a video about it meet Ellie my zeal 1:1 Ellie get it Ellie so I'm that guy that runs on the Nissan challenge with my Camaro it's all good unfortunately as with normal track days somebody always has an issue this car is still trying to get out on track it's got a bad alternator normally not a problem the problem is the way Nissan installs the alternator on the bottom of everything under brackets you got to remove belts you gotta remove hoses you gotta move all sorts of jam on the other hand puts the alternator on top takes five seconds but yeah we've literally got four guys here right now trying to get this alternator out because it's a it's a shitshow in terms of what's required so if you've been following me on social media you guys know that I take my car to the track the 370z it's all purpose-built mca suspension real high-end stuff nothing rep on that car all legit and i take it to tracks like chuckwalla Willow Springs and I wanted to step it up and there's one car that I always said I really wanted to own ever since it was announced last year and I bought it now I understand there's a bit of a low budget video but that's why this is sort of just me and you guys talking at the top of a Zeus a canyon up here on the tabletop talking about this car because I have already tracked this car twice if you guys been following social media like I said you've already seen pictures of it you kind of seen pictures of me tracking it and that's what the car was built for I'm not the kind of guy that can buy something that was meant for something and not use it for that purpose I don't buy trophy cars I don't buy things to sit in the garage I bought this I did the break-in and I actually rolled over the miles to finish the break-in at the track so we took the chuckwalla we did it's an amazing session at truck wall all four sessions car perform beautifully took it to Buttonwillow yesterday which was Sunday if you guys are watching us now Sunday April 8th we took it to Buttonwillow of course I had my coach Stephen Doherty I guess I'm gonna put a link to his channel in the description below he is a 2012 I think it was GT Academy winner he is my coach he's been teaching me everything I know about driving profession or you know right we'll put it that way driving the car right and he's going to talk a little bit in this video too about the car but let's just say that this thing is an absolute monster if you don't know what this is this is a zl1 Camaro that has basically an LT for supercharged 6.2 liter with a one point seven liter eaton supercharger on it that was pulled out of the zo six Corvette transplanted into the Camaro with a Tremec 6-speed and an LSD multimatic spool valve shocks everything on this car built for the track the tires on the front are goodyear eagle supercar f13 RS which are a six d tread where our compound or race compound tire formulated specifically for this arm changing hands missus formulated specifically for this car 305 3019 in the front three twenty five thirty nineteen in the back and i've already burned up the fronts that was a bad toe alignment and whatever I digress we we fixed it for Buttonwillow and obviously performed well in terms of power though factory at 650 horsepower 650 torque I did stage one like immediately bumping that up to 700 in about 715 we're currently doing a stage 1.5 this month month which is going to bring it up to closer to 750 and almost 800 torque that is a monster more power is never a problem and I've been able to handle this power on track absolutely no problem whatsoever in fact this cars got way more than I am able to give it just even nobody took it out on track I let me drive a whole session with it he was a gt3 GTR driver for factory Nissan driven EMSA and some of the most world-famous tracks and I wanted his opinion on it and that's what we'll talk about okay so this is Steven Doherty you guys might remember I did a video with him when he took me out for my first track day back in November of 2016 wow it's been a while obviously things have improved so I let you talk for a second like I told them I let you drive for a whole session on this 20 minutes 25 minutes session or whatever and you to preface this don't like GM yeah I've never been a fan of GM cars I grew up around like circle track racing where pretty much everything is GM so you'd think I would be a big fan but pretty much all American cars I just never really liked for whatever reason so I've always stuck to Japanese cars Nissan's right yeah that's kind of how we met a Nissan challenge group exactly but yeah I mean this thing they definitely are light years ahead of the older older Camaro stuff like even the interior um you can still see some little plastic plastic and cheap GM stuff but a lot of Alcantara yeah a lot of Alcantara which I think kind of seats that are yeah the Recaro seeds that are great for the street but you do move around in them a bit in the track yeah once you get a helmet on yeah the grass pushes your word and I mean this thing is such a monster the g-forces are just throwing you around too so yeah so what are your thoughts sent on the setup because member this is with the exception of flipping the camber plates 180 which is a feature of the car it's all the stockmen multimatic spool valves it's the stock although the last session wasn't the stock front tires I burned them up you guys probably saw on Twitter me looking for tires last second we had some mostly burned up supercar three hours in the back mitts mismatched compound but you still sent it so what how do you feel about the way the car is set up yeah the the engineering that they did behind this car is incredible like to see that level of engineering out of an American car is it's like it's good it's refreshing but man they they have done so much of this car like the dampers are amazing the only way you're gonna get dampers that good is to have a half a million or a million dollar race car you know yeah the dampers are probably a good chunk of this price of this car yeah be honest I would I would think they're at least like a $10,000 I was you hear everyone complain on the street you know the car and driver reviews you know and Rodan track they complain it's too rough for the road for the street it's kind of funny how that's true right it's not something gonna fall asleep in but on the track it's just it really comes to life yeah and it makes the car all come together and make sense because the last thing you're thinking on the track is this is rough because it's not yeah it's it's perfect and the the dynamic adjustable you know that's what the spool valve is all about dynamically adjusts has a completely different damper rate at slow speed versus high speeds which meant when I'm curbing something at 110 miles an hour it's not throwing me up out of the car it it absorbs the bumps really well and doesn't translate it to the entire chassis moving yeah so it soaks those up extremely well that the platform stays nice and level and man it it's really like I said refreshing to see this level of engineering on an American muscle car basically what about the arrow cuz GM's not really known for arrow right and like you know I've raced some GT cars and done some prototype testing and stuff like that with real down for us obviously it's not gonna be to that kind of a level no there's no LMP car right but the thing I think you can feel the most is the fact that it's not actually lifting like a lot of production cars have lift believe it or not at speed so this might only make a little bit but you it really helps if that plus plus a lack of lift that is giving you the true down exactly so your brakes the downforce isn't fighting the lift so your brake zones are way more stable you can brake harder later at speed the higher speed corners the car stays nice and planted like you said earlier I'm not a big fan of American cars but maybe this starts to change anyway guys yeah so he's got a channel it's called that racing life I put a link in the description below we talked a lot about a circle track racing that he's does like extreme budget racing people think you have to have a ton of money to go racing you don't Steven really shows that but you also want to see some onboard ride-along stuff with the real high-end he's got that too so there's a link down below if you guys wanna check that out one Elise stands for the track pack that's their MPO code so basically one le is available on the LTS the SS is obviously the ZL ones and that basically means it's got a lot of track oriented upgrades to it so in this it shares the exact same six piston or yeah six piston front brakes as a CL one same 4-piston rear brakes obviously they're Brembo 390 millimeter rotors in the front huge rotors but it has something significantly different than the other Camaros and that is Aero you'll notice the big canards on the front it's got a bigger splitter on the front the same side splitters you'll find on the standard zl1 but it's got a large high-rise carbon-fiber rear spoiler that the zl1 standard doesn't have its overall the same shape the zl1 sits more like on the on the lid of the trunk but this actually brings it up better into the airflow there's not a whole lot of difference you could tell on the outside also there's different wheels or 19-inch wheels 20s which you find on the standard zl1 they're much wider they are 19 by 11 in the front 19 by 12 in the rear because of the size of the tires that are on this but something else i did to the car that i forgot to mention is i did do a muffler delete doing a full exhaust on this car is not something that really picks up a lot of power but the stage one-and-a-half that we're doing picks up power because of the overdrive pulley for the supercharger it's already got a poor two throttle body it's already got the cold air intake or not the cold air it's called a cold air intake even left under the hood it's just a larger intake diameter and where it picks up the air it's a bit more free-flowing versus the standard airbox which is about colliding down the supercharger so the first thing he'll notice on this car that makes it that you can tell something's been done at least to the intake is affect the supercharger is so loud it's also gonna have long tube headers which is a part of the stage 1.5 and so that's going to really open up the airflow so we're over driving the supercharger by 10% putting the long tube headers which open up the exhaust flow so the pressure actually comes back down but the CFM goes up so that's how we're making more power that way but man I got to tell you right now when it comes to the capabilities of this car I never wanted to own another Camaro my first track car I ever owned we'll call it track car it was literally just a shitbox Camaro to say the least was in 1992 Camaro z28 didn't even have the 5.7 liter the 350th 5.0 liter which is basically taken out of one of their old ass trucks back then the 1500 trucks made no power 220 horsepower to the crank which was hard to get a car made out of steel to get going now obviously you guys deserve a much more better produced video about this but we did a nice drive today after two track days I just wanted to share the car with you guys because all the support you guys have make stuff like this possible a lot of you have shared interest in seeing more about car stuff track stuff my track experience the guys I do track with and I want to let you guys know we are actually starting another channel that's gonna be focused on that but not just myself the group of guys that I track with are all gonna be a collective on this channel so this is going to be a group channel covering all sorts of different things everyone's got a different path everyone has a different background a different budget and we're gonna be covering everybody's journey into this the guys that are beginners Nick's a part of this definitely as a beginner all the way to Steven Doherty who has driven some of the you know highest horsepower / track oriented cars that you possibly can on the most iconic tracks in the world so we've got a huge range of experience that this is gonna be about there's a lot of car channels out there on the internet most of them are focused on either me me me or show cars or drift which is alright but I don't do those enough guys out there representing grip which is exactly what we are doing drag racing has a huge showing drift has a huge showing but where's grip so that's we're going to be doing no I don't have a link for you today but trust me when it's ready that link will be shared and hopefully you guys will come on over follow our experiences on that but guys I'm gonna go thanks for kind of watching this little vlog I know that car stuff isn't for all of you there's a lot of tech in cars and that's why I have underestimated the amount of you that are also into cars and tech because I guess they definitely go hand in hand especially them out of tech in this car to keep you from killing yourself when you put your foot down then the it's not ready to go straight and wants to go sideways and there's a lot of tech they'll keep you from doing that we're also doing something with Audi there's a TT RS that I currently have my hands on right now too and we're gonna be doing some cool videos about outies tech going on in their cars so make sure you guys check that out anyway like I said we're gonna go thanks for watching guys we wanna know more about this car head on over to Twitter there's tons of pictures Instagram as well and some of that behind the scenes track stuff that can be seen over there so guys we'll see in the next one thanks 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