Blue 1967 Chevrolet Camaro with white stripes and racing wheels,…

damn the budget. Hes got about$100K in this toy, but thats what happens when you wont do with anything less than the best stuff in the businesshallowed marks of Sonny Bryant, Carrillo, Canton, CP, AFR, Raceline, Incon, Fikse, Martz, Michelin, and Griggs, Its all in there You look down into that tidy, but somewhat busy engine bay to a slew of pipes, ttings, and tubes all neat and shiny, but you could easily pass up the Raceline/Canton drysump oiling system, the Incon SOOTTi turbochargers, and the purposebuilt castiron exhaust mani~ folds. Stuif that will likely still be intact when the world ends. What you really dont notice is that . the engine has been pushed back 4. inches, ostensibly to allow the Ron Davis-built cooling core and intercooler to be mount- ed behind the radiator support. No telling how much good this little rearrangement has done for the frontto~rear weight bias. For the road race ethic, something resembling a 50/50 split would be ideal, but just in case it isnt, the DeRaad~ical Camaro manages all the right lightweight, geometrically sublime, dou blethrowdown suspension parts abetted by some really fat-ass rubber on aircraft aluminum modular wheels...and enough jing in Rons back pocket to make it so. So how did DeRaad get here in the rst place? I always wanted to build a '68 Camaro, but I thought it would have an Boy, thats an attention whore, isnt it?Anonymous, at Fun Ford Weekend a a e big end. but Hell in a straight line, true. Hes seen 145 at the top of 4th and estimates 1905 on th DeRaads Camaro goes like a bat out of he really built it as a corner blitzer. 34 www.popularhotroddingicom allaluminum bigblock. I was building a 93 LX Mustang with an Incon twinturbo kit and an R302 Ford Motorsports block with all the good stu. I decided to sell it. The rst day it was on the block, a guy approached me, Since he lived local, we went to his house. In his garage sat a 68 Camaro RS. I lit up!" Ron explains. I asked if he was interested in a trade, with some cash my way, I was soon the owner of a 68 Camaro that was in need of a mechanical x, but overall it was in great shape. In February of 02, I began its disas sembly. When it was time to decide what powerplant I wanted to use, I looked at the twin~turbo 5.0liter sitting on the engine stand and wondered if it would go between he rails. I did a test t to see what 1 was in or. Surprisingly, it fit very well," he says. Before he got any looser with the proj act, Ron called seine savvy pals and put _ _ he big question to them: Am I crazy...or ' A g, ould 1 have a lot of fun with this?" The sky The interior carries a bullshit road race theme, not live by speed alone. County Rod Shop modifiedithe dashboard to remove the dash pad, added the custom gauge cluster. and relocated the gonzo audio system, Vintage Air HVAC controls, and Auto Meter gauges, ooiled black. He looked heavenward and was smote by a terrible swift sword, and ,ut strdngly suggests that man does he answer to both questions was: Yes, iideed. Then he was off in a swirl of tire 'moke and turbos shrieking to blow his eardrumsi Since the impetus from that 302 is prodigious (750 hp at 7,200 rpm), Ron had Terry Davis and friends at the County od Shop in Camarillo warm up the chassis by replacing the entire suspension with pieces from the aftermarket. In front, he Martz Road Race Chassis clip was reinforced to take the '75 lb~ft of torque and wears 2inch drop spindles. Griggs Racing coil springs (8 inches overall, 450 lb~in) are squeezed etween the Martz tubular control arms and wheel movement At first, I tried to run the exhaust through the side pipes without any type of silencer at all. They were way damn loud.Ron DeRooo