Video: 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Drag Race Concept

What is this? It's really a concept to develop specific components to enable our customers to be able to improve their straight line performance. So it can be put together as a package but our plan is to really offer a la carte plan so that people can pick and choose what's the right parts for them. And what components are concept on this? So from a concept standpoint, we have a air induction system, we have a Poli kit for increased boost on the supercharger. And then we've been working on a lot of development components on the calibration side with the electronic limited slip differential, the mag ride and the trans but what's really neat is a lot of the parts that we developed last year, so we came to SEMA last year with an SS Camaro with a bunch of concept parts and a lot of those components actually translate to this. So this year actually available for sale, small rear brake kit, drive line components, both drive shafts and half shafts. Also an air induction kit for racing only that increase performance on that. So those came to fruition and are now available and our plan is to do the same thing with this, bring the concepts here and then next year come back to SEMA with the parts ready for sale and developed and really refine for the customer. So those calibration changes with magnetic ride suspension and e-differential, what are those doing to help drag racers? Yeah, so, you know, these cars are really, the ZL1 is developed as a triple threat, right? A good drag racer, a great road racer and really exceptional on road. What this does is try to kinda sway it more towards the straight line performance. What's needed to go around a turn for damping and for actual differential action is quite a bit different than just pure straight line performance. So what we're able to do with using this technology is at the initial hit, have the suspension set up, so it'll get the most bite and weight transfer and then as the car settles down with speed, it gets to something that gets back to more of a handling in case the car makes a move or whatever. Same thing with the eLSD, you can turn it into basically a spool at the launch so you make sure that you have the most traction and then as you go down the track, you can back that off in case you get out of the groove, it doesn't drive the car. So really get the best of both worlds. Are those calibrations gonna be selectable in the car? I realize it's a concept-- Right. Yeah, so another great thing about ZL1 overall, right? Is with the mag ride, you have the opportunity for different modes. So we have Sport, Tour and Track. So you know, one of the options that we're looking into is having that track mode when you buy this cal, instead of it being very road race centric that you would actually select track or a derivative of track 'cause there's multiple options in track where there's a straight line performance cal. Huh? Yeah. One of the things I noticed in the video you showed, the ZL1 had the big factory front tires on it but this one has, looks like skinny front runners. Yeah, so again, getting back to the concept. So first and foremost, we really needed, the whole point of the small brake package was to enable being able to run a smaller wheel to get more sidewall. So that was our number one step was to get the rear wheel available to our customer. And yeah, all of our development we didn't ever wanna do it with stuff that wasn't gonna be here so this was our next step. So another one of those concepts, so yeah, 10:00 with an O then now with this-- They gotta be worth a couple of hundreds so-- Yeah, all right. If we had run those, I'm pretty confident we would had a solid nine second pass there. So, we're pretty excited about that considering one of the other big things is this kinda first stage of development we never broke into the engine. The whole key was, where can you go with bolt-ons, right? 'Cause there's a lot of people that don't wanna get into the inside. So all of this performance ought to go more or less a nine second car with just external modifications. Aha, and the parts that are on this, what are you looking at as far as warranty? Is the existing Chevrolet SS program and what this concept. Yeah and right now the stuff that we have released is offered use only, right? So it's really about giving those guys that really wanna make their drag car that. You know, we're looking down the future is how we can do it and depending on the component where they would be able to be available and what the usage would be and how it affects warranty. Cool, all right. Well there you have it 10:00 now but could it be at 9:999 with those front tires on it.