Chefrolet Camaro COPO - Chefrolet launched its newest product, namely chefrolet copo is a car that in concept design mrnggunakan comaro. Which aims to attract the car market today.
"The Camaro COPO is a proof of concept for what Chevrolet Stock Eliminator entry could look like," said Jim Campbell.
COPO concept vehicle designed to accommodate more than one engine options, including naturally aspirated engines 427 (7.0L) - the same displacement as the original CamaroCOPO from 1969 - and 327 supercharged (5.3L) engine. Among the features and equipment khususbanyak racing is a conversion of an independent standard rear axle Camaro for a solid axle, and a full roll cage chrome moly.
Machine
Intended for different classes of NHRA's Stock Eliminator, the concept of COPO Camaromemiliki provisions for two different engine packages - each built untukmemenuhi class guidelines. Details below the core specification of each machine and the class they were intended.
This concept vehicle powered by a supercharged version of the prototype of the machine 327, displays an LSX cylinder block.
Fill the basis for the concept of COPO Camaro include:
• Provisions for two engine configurations (see below for details)
• Provisions for two-speed Powerglide automatic transmission, three-speed manual five-speed otomatisatau
• high-rise hood-induction hood
• Custom Aeromotive fuel system with fuel cells and integral high pressure fuel pump
• Full, chrome moly roll cage
• Coil-over front suspension with Strange Engineering adjustable struts
• Custom rear suspension based on the needs of NHRA, with TeknikAneh shocks, Panhard bar and stabilizer bar
• Strange Engineering S-9 solid rear axle with members of the three 0.35-spline aluminum spool, 35-spline axles and 4:10 gear set
• Lightweight, special COPO racing wheel
29x9-inch rear racing slicks and 4.5x28x15 inch radial tires front
• The steering system manual
• Strange Engineering lightweight racing brake system with standard line key.
Interior
The interior is all business, with the voices of the most deadly and electrical accessories removed. Conversely, there are a pair of racing bucket seats (and no rear seats), a seat belt for the driver, the competition floor shifter and gauges by Auto Performance Chevrolet meters.
History copo
Since 1955, NHRA Stock Eliminator has become the proving ground straight line for the fastest car out of Detroit. In Stock Eliminator, there are many classes, all determined by the weight ratio of delivery vehicles and factors assigned horsepower. Due to tight competition monitored set of rules and historically brutal, Stock Eliminator is the ultimate test for factory muscle car.
In the Sixties, COPO is an acronym for Central Office Production Order, in particular for the Chevrolet vehicle program. Although usually used to order a fleet of trucks and cars owned company, was manipulated by some of the performance-minded dealers to order vehicles with engines larger than that available in the regular production model - most with a view to getting them for Stock Eliminator racer.
From the Water "Fuelie" Bel '57 to '62 409 Impala and muscle cars are countless who came later, Chevrolet has enjoyed a position, long dominant in this category sportsman drag racing. No cars, however, has dominated the track and folklore legendary muscle cars like the Camaro COPO produced in 1969.
The Camaro COPO opened the NHRA rule book to some combination of interest for the Camaro, Chevrolet helps keep at the top of the ultra-competitive forms of motorsports. In fact, they are not only competitive in the NHRA Stock Eliminator when new, but still held the national ET and MPH records in several classes.
By pushing the Chevrolet Central Office Production Order to limit special-order program, a number of dealers can get the 427-cubic-inch big-block engines installed in some of the Camaro, when the largest official machinery available is 396. Two versions of the 427 engine was wrangled out of the factory: COPO 9561 was based Corvette L-72 edition with an iron cylinder block and COPO 9560 ZL1 engine was racing designed with a lightweight aluminum cylinder block.
