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Road Tests > 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS - Testing The 467+HP 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
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1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS - Testing The 467HP
Rear-Wheel Drive And V-8 Power- Just Like Earnhardt's Got
Camaros, Firebirds, and Mustangs aren't, strictly speaking, musclecars. They're "ponycars," which implies compromises in utility because of their size and concessions to style. Classic "musclecars," like the '65 Z16 Chevrolet Malibu SS 396, or '70 LS-6 Chevelle SS 454, retain the utility of the otherwise-regular-production midsize coupes they inhabit: useable back seats, big trunks, and room for wide Americans. Driving Chevy's rear-drive, 467-horsepower, V-8-powered Monte Carlo SS prototype/toy evokes one clear passion: We want our musclecars back!
The Monte Carlo SS, its swollen flanks covering massive Goodyear Eagle GS-C tires, looks somewhat like a regular '95 Monte Carlo but even more like a street-going lime-green version of Dale Earnhardt's Winston Cup race car. In this case, instead of being stretched over a Laughlin tube-frame, the Monte Carlo skin has been placed atop the basic chassis of the Camaro (F-car). The unequal-length A-arm front and links and torque-arm rear suspensions are direct lifts from the Z28, as are the steering and Borg-Warner T56 six-speed manual transmission. Open up the hood, look past the engine-you won't want to-and there's the F-car engine cradle carefully tucked beneath the stock Monte Carlo cowl. The four-wheel disc brakes also come from the F-car parts bin and retain that car's ABS, though the 13-inch-diameter 1LE front rotors are clamped by Wilwood four-piston calipers. As radical as the conversion from front to rear drive is, the execution of it by Chevy's Specialty Vehicle Department and Jeff Beitzel's Troy Design-Tech is rather elegant.
Elegance schmelegance-the engine is flat-out blood lust. Dimensionally, this is a 406-cubic-inch (6.6-liter) Chevy small-block V-8, but everything from the all-aluminum block through the Trick Flow Specialties canted-valve heads and on to the twin Arizona Speed & Marine 58-millimeter throttle bodies is special. Keeping the 11.7:1-compression-ratio engine assembly tame is the Corvette's Delco engine control computer, which takes orders from a specifically calibrated PROM chip. This all boils down to 467 horsepower at 6000 rpm and the sort of torque production-458 pound-feet at 3500 rpm-usually reserved for turning turbines within hydroelectric dams. Even at as little as 2000 rpm, there's more than 360 pound-feet of torque on tap.
No "Dukes of Hazzard"-style gymnastics are necessary to get into the Monte Carlo SS, and inside, except for the shifter and speedometer modified to read up to 180 mph, it's undiluted Monte Carlo. Still, the knowledge of the power underhood keeps one from instantly firing the engine. After all, it's simply courteous to let Jim Nabors finish singing "Back Home Again in Indiana" before you start a race car.
Any trepidation is unwarranted, however, as the engine starts instantly and settles into a benign, slightly lopey idle. Engaging the McLeod clutch requires a bit more effort than one needs on a stock Camaro, and letting it out produces a lot more thrust.
With 0-60-mph taking a scant 4.4 seconds and the quarter mile guzzled in just 12.9 seconds at 114.4 mph, this could/should-be-in-production Chevy is quicker than a Porsche 911 without that pesky German over-engineering. Although the rear 335/45ZR17 tires' supersize contact patch acreage is so large that either side of the tread center line is covered by different zoning laws, they're toast without conscientious throttle modulation. Nonetheless, this is happy, feel-good, easy-to-use torque-so effortless a well-trained gladiola could lap Phoenix International's oval at triple-digit speeds.
This isn't a perfect car. While steering response is excellent and turn-in instantaneous (with 275/35ZR17 front tires, it ought to be), its rear end likes to kick out in the corners a bit too easily. For a one-off experiment, the fit and finish are excellent, but the structure isn't up to production standards, and the brakes need sorting.
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Rear-Wheel Drive And V-8 Power- Just Like Earnhardt's Got
Camaros, Firebirds, and Mustangs aren't, strictly speaking, musclecars. They're "ponycars," which implies compromises in utility because of their size and concessions to style. Classic "musclecars," like the '65 Z16 Chevrolet Malibu SS 396, or '70 LS-6 Chevelle SS 454, retain the utility of the otherwise-regular-production midsize coupes they inhabit: useable back seats, big trunks, and room for wide Americans. Driving Chevy's rear-drive, 467-horsepower, V-8-powered Monte Carlo SS prototype/toy evokes one clear passion: We want our musclecars back!
The Monte Carlo SS, its swollen flanks covering massive Goodyear Eagle GS-C tires, looks somewhat like a regular '95 Monte Carlo but even more like a street-going lime-green version of Dale Earnhardt's Winston Cup race car. In this case, instead of being stretched over a Laughlin tube-frame, the Monte Carlo skin has been placed atop the basic chassis of the Camaro (F-car). The unequal-length A-arm front and links and torque-arm rear suspensions are direct lifts from the Z28, as are the steering and Borg-Warner T56 six-speed manual transmission. Open up the hood, look past the engine-you won't want to-and there's the F-car engine cradle carefully tucked beneath the stock Monte Carlo cowl. The four-wheel disc brakes also come from the F-car parts bin and retain that car's ABS, though the 13-inch-diameter 1LE front rotors are clamped by Wilwood four-piston calipers. As radical as the conversion from front to rear drive is, the execution of it by Chevy's Specialty Vehicle Department and Jeff Beitzel's Troy Design-Tech is rather elegant.
Elegance schmelegance-the engine is flat-out blood lust. Dimensionally, this is a 406-cubic-inch (6.6-liter) Chevy small-block V-8, but everything from the all-aluminum block through the Trick Flow Specialties canted-valve heads and on to the twin Arizona Speed & Marine 58-millimeter throttle bodies is special. Keeping the 11.7:1-compression-ratio engine assembly tame is the Corvette's Delco engine control computer, which takes orders from a specifically calibrated PROM chip. This all boils down to 467 horsepower at 6000 rpm and the sort of torque production-458 pound-feet at 3500 rpm-usually reserved for turning turbines within hydroelectric dams. Even at as little as 2000 rpm, there's more than 360 pound-feet of torque on tap.
No "Dukes of Hazzard"-style gymnastics are necessary to get into the Monte Carlo SS, and inside, except for the shifter and speedometer modified to read up to 180 mph, it's undiluted Monte Carlo. Still, the knowledge of the power underhood keeps one from instantly firing the engine. After all, it's simply courteous to let Jim Nabors finish singing "Back Home Again in Indiana" before you start a race car.
Any trepidation is unwarranted, however, as the engine starts instantly and settles into a benign, slightly lopey idle. Engaging the McLeod clutch requires a bit more effort than one needs on a stock Camaro, and letting it out produces a lot more thrust.
With 0-60-mph taking a scant 4.4 seconds and the quarter mile guzzled in just 12.9 seconds at 114.4 mph, this could/should-be-in-production Chevy is quicker than a Porsche 911 without that pesky German over-engineering. Although the rear 335/45ZR17 tires' supersize contact patch acreage is so large that either side of the tread center line is covered by different zoning laws, they're toast without conscientious throttle modulation. Nonetheless, this is happy, feel-good, easy-to-use torque-so effortless a well-trained gladiola could lap Phoenix International's oval at triple-digit speeds.
This isn't a perfect car. While steering response is excellent and turn-in instantaneous (with 275/35ZR17 front tires, it ought to be), its rear end likes to kick out in the corners a bit too easily. For a one-off experiment, the fit and finish are excellent, but the structure isn't up to production standards, and the brakes need sorting.
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