2012 COPO Camaro: GM’s Baddest Factory Camaro Ever! – HOT ROD Unlimited Episode 6

It is the baddest manufacturing facility Camaro ever! The 2012 COPO Camaro is a pure drag racing automobile constructed to compete in NHRA Inventory Eliminator and Tremendous Inventory lessons, and on this episode of HOT ROD Limitless, we go behind the scenes inside Basic Motors to be taught concerning the automobile, watch some radical burnouts, meet a few of the individuals behind the COPO, see one of many engines on the dyno, and go to the Efficiency Construct Middle the place the engines are assembled. On the time of our go to, the one COPO was the very first one, generally known as the Proof of Idea automobile, serial quantity 001. GM was not able to launch engine energy numbers, drag instances, or car weights, as class particulars are nonetheless being labored out with the Nationwide Sizzling Rod Affiliation.

COPO stands for Central Workplace Manufacturing Order, a course of that was used within the ’60s for fleet managers to order uncommon combos of choices. Supplier Fred Gibb discovered the right way to use the system to get GM to assemble vehicles that have been by no means supposed for manufacturing. He ordered 1969 Camaros that used a by-product of GM’s 427ci, all-aluminum ZL1 race engine, and acquired sufficient of them to make them authorized to compete as manufacturing vehicles in NHRA and AHRA drag racing. There have been 69 ZL1 Camaros inbuilt 1969, and Chevrolet is constructing the identical quantity for 2012.

The brand new COPO is a pure race automobile, not capable of be licensed for the road, and is out there with three totally different engines: a 427 that is naturally aspirated, a 327 with a 2.9L Whipple blower, and a 327 with a 4.0L Whipple blower. Consumers have the choice to personal all three engines, all stamped with the serial variety of their automobile. The COPO is gutted of all the road gear, has a rollcage, and the unique unbiased rear suspension has been changed with a Unusual 9-inch rearend with 4.29 gears and a spool. Different aftermarket components embrace Unusual struts and brakes, and ATI Powerglide transmission, an Aeromotive gasoline system, Bogart wheels with COPO engraving, and Hoosier 30×9.00-15 radial slicks and thin entrance drag tires.

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