GM Performance Parts To Offer $7,000 Body-In-White New Camaro [2010 Chevy Camaro]

Do you want to build your very own Camaro GS Racer featured at this year’s SEMA show? GM Performance Parts has the answer for you with the new $7,000 2010 Chevy Camaro body-in-white.

Starting early next year, GM Performance Parts will begin offering the 2010 Chevy Camaro body-in-white in their catalog. Marketed towards the competition racer set, the 2010 Camaro body-in-white will save both time and money. The package includes an assembled body structure, including front fenders, hood, front fascia, grille, roof, doors, rear quarter panels, trunk lid, rear fascia, complete floorpan and chassis rails. The cost of the package will run you $7,000, a far cry from the up-level SS model that would see the removal of 90% of its original content.

The parts needed to complete the package will include a powertrain, fuel system, suspension, interior components, glass and safety equipment. GM Performance Parts offers many of these parts through its online catalog and with such a large assortment of crate engine options listed on the GM Performance Parts website, it’ll be interesting to see what some of the grassroots racers will shoehorn between the rails of their build-your-own muscle car. Our ideal setup would be either the 6.2-liter supercharged LS9 or the brutal ZZ572/720R drag unit with its 572 cu. in. and 720 HP and 685 lb-ft of brute force.

GM Performance Parts Press Release:

Grand Blanc, Mich. – Racers who want to slip into something more fashionable at the
track next year will find the 2010 Camaro is just their size. GM Performance Parts will offer body in white packages of the new Camaro starting in the first quarter of 2009. The basic package lists for $7,000 and includes an assembled body structure, including the front fenders, hood, front valance/grille header panel, roof, doors, rear quarters, trunk lid and rear valance. The structure also includes the complete floorpans and chassis rails.

Racer must fill out an online application to be eligible to purchase one. The form is available at www.gmperformanceparts.com. Bodies will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. There is no limit to the number an approved racing team can purchase.

“This is the easiest and most cost-effective way to build a race-ready new Camaro,” said Dr. Jamie Meyer, of GM Performance Parts. “We envision racers using these bodies for all types of competition, from Pro Street and Competition drag racing to road racing.” The body in white includes only a painted body shell and no additional components or materials. The bodies do not have vehicle identification numbers, so they may only be used as racing vehicles that will never be licensed for street driving.

Racers will add powertrain, fuel system, suspension, interior components and glass (or sanctioning body-approved alternative), and safety equipment, then go racing.

“For the racers who would strip down the entire car and replace most of the components with racing-spec parts, the body in white saves time and money,” said Dr. Meyer. “Drag racers, for example, won’t have to worry about swapping out for a solid axle – they can just bolt one up and go.”

[via GM Performance Parts]

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Driven: A 600hp LS7 Camaro… with a warranty

With some of GM’s factory performance programs on the back burner, a Chevrolet dealer and a performance tuning shop in upstate New York have taken it upon themselves to turn up the heat.

DeNooyer Chevrolet in Albany, N.Y. and Redline Motorsports in nearby Schenectady have joined forces to build what muscle car enthusiasts might call the modern interpretation of the Baldwin-Motion SS 427 Camaros — but these fuel-injected, emissions-friendly street, strip and track-day terrors are pumping out in the neighborhood of 600hp and plans are in the works for even larger power gains using turbochargers and superchargers.

Though a number of different engine and suspension packages are in the works and on the drawing board, the car that intrigued us most was the HTR 600, because of its nostalgic nod to the Motion cars, its muscle car manners and its ability to make tire shredding horsepower without power adders.

Starting with a 2010 Camaro SS, Howard Tanner of Redline Motorsports (HTR stands for Howard Tanner Redline) yanks the original 426hp 6.2-liter V-8 and transplants a new LS7 427 crate engine, the 505hp engine currently offered in the Z06 Corvette.

The dry-sump oil system, native to the LS7 in the Z06, is reconfigured into a conventional system, and a custom-ground roller lifter cam is slipped in. Custom stainless headers, a 3-inch stainless exhaust with an X-pipe, high-flow cats and GM Performance mufflers are added as is a cold-air intake and special PCM calibrating. The whole package conspires to pump out an honest 600hp in the HTR 600.

The Camaro we drove also sported some Rally stripes and old-school 427 badges and retailed in the neighborhood of $65,000. Pricey yes, but when you consider that an SS starts at $30,995 (good luck buying one for that) and the LS7 crate engine has a street price of $13,643, the price becomes more palatable. Add in the cost of Tanner’s upgrades and labor plus the 3 year/36,000 mile powertrain warranty that DeNooyer is offering on the car (if you performed this swap you’d have a 0-year/0-mile warranty) and it suddenly starts to look like a bargain.

The cars are all numbered and badged for future collectibility — which seems almost inevitable given the current climate for factory performance. Look for more in the November issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines’ Production Line column.

To order yours or buy the one we drove, call Dan Carlton at DeNooyer Performance at (518) 526-0412 or send him an email at topgun1ice@aol.com.

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