>Track Day New Camaro >WarrantyCoverage >Yes!<
#1
04-03-2016, 12:20 PM
>Track Day New Camaro >WarrantyCoverage >Yes!<
NEW CARS
APR 1, 2016
Yes! Chevrolet Will Honor Your Camaro's Warranty If You Take It to the Track
Click above 2 view Trackday trouble? No problem, says chief engineer Al Oppenheiser.
Chevy believes in their product BY BLAKE Z. RONG
#2
04-03-2016, 03:30 PM
I would need a Good Waranty 4-Sure
2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Convertible Spied With Beefy Brakes
The influx of 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 spy shots is becoming more frequent. This is a good sign we will soon see the 2017 Camaro ZL1 in the flesh, but for now we have another spy shot.
Autoblog has snapped the 2017 Camaro ZL1 testing with its usual camouflage to hide away the finer details. As our friends at Autoblog point out, the brakes are gigantic on this prototype, a dead giveaway of a high-performance variant. The rotors are certainly getting acquainted with the innards of the wheels in this latest shot.
Otherwise, this looks like a regular ‘ol Camaro to untrained eye. Luckily, we’re all professionals here, right? Right.
Expect the 2017 Camaro ZL1 to debut with the 2016 Corvette Z06‘s 6.2-liter LT4 supercharged V8 engine, providing plenty of potency paired to a six-speed manual or eight-speed automatic gearbox.
Autoblog has snapped the 2017 Camaro ZL1 testing with its usual camouflage to hide away the finer details. As our friends at Autoblog point out, the brakes are gigantic on this prototype, a dead giveaway of a high-performance variant. The rotors are certainly getting acquainted with the innards of the wheels in this latest shot.
Otherwise, this looks like a regular ‘ol Camaro to untrained eye. Luckily, we’re all professionals here, right? Right.
Expect the 2017 Camaro ZL1 to debut with the 2016 Corvette Z06‘s 6.2-liter LT4 supercharged V8 engine, providing plenty of potency paired to a six-speed manual or eight-speed automatic gearbox.
#4
04-04-2016, 06:48 AM
Great post BBMike! Even in my owner's manual they have suggestions how to prepair your Camaro SS for The track
They suggest removing the air deflector in front of the front wheels so that more air gets to the brakes (the deflectors keeps road grime from building up on the wheel parts normally)
The also suggest removing the dust shield from behind the rotor also for more air circulation around the brakes.But they also warn to put them back on for daily driving
Lastly the suggest a fluid change in the differential if the car is newly broken in. (Break in is 1,500 miles)
They suggest removing the air deflector in front of the front wheels so that more air gets to the brakes (the deflectors keeps road grime from building up on the wheel parts normally)
The also suggest removing the dust shield from behind the rotor also for more air circulation around the brakes.But they also warn to put them back on for daily driving
Lastly the suggest a fluid change in the differential if the car is newly broken in. (Break in is 1,500 miles)
#5
04-04-2016, 07:05 AM
Hi `Tadd, yes I think it is really great that Chevy is standing behind their product. That's if you keep your Camaro without Mod's.
Break In is important for the longevity of the Engine/powertrain, but you still can kick it down and drive in all RPM ranges. Can't let your valves get any carbon deposits (LOL)...
Good Luck with your S.S. 4-Sure
Break In is important for the longevity of the Engine/powertrain, but you still can kick it down and drive in all RPM ranges. Can't let your valves get any carbon deposits (LOL)...
Good Luck with your S.S. 4-Sure
#7
04-04-2016, 08:11 AM
2016 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Review
2016 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Review
Top-down style with top-up speed.
By: Michael Jordan | Photography by: The Manufacturer, Patrick M. HoeyMarch 15, 2016
And then, as you’re rolling along at 30 mph, you trigger the power-operated top. Within seconds, you’re buttoned up beneath a tautly stretched multi-layer canvas top, and you’re ripping down the road past Zabriskie Point as fast as you can go. Sure, the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro convertible looks dramatic and behaves like something adults can enjoy, but it hasn’t sacrificed its soul.
More driver, less machine
Once you have the top laid back, the Camaro experience is a lot more enjoyable in so many ways. Instead of being enclosed in the coupe’s bunker-like environment with the narrow slits that serve as windows, the world’s largest sunroof opens. Now you’re styling in a luxury environment, especially if you choose brightly colored upholstery over the customary black.
This transformation in the driving experience comes from the 2016 Camaro convertible’s new power-operated top. It retracts just as you remember from the 2015 Camaro convertible, but now you can conduct business at 30 mph instead of waiting until the car is idling at the next stoplight. (You can even trigger the top remotely with the key fob when the car is parked.)
After some 18 seconds, the top is stowed beneath a hard tonneau cover. The hard tonneau might seem to be no more than a matter of style to you, but ask owners of the previous generation of the Camaro convertible about the condition of the canvas top’s headliner after a few years of zipping around in freeway traffic with the top retracted and uncovered by its soft tonneau bag. Unless you enjoy the availability of a ready source of road grease as a substitute for hair product, the answer will not be positive.
As you expect in any convertible and especially one with a power top, the 2016 Camaro convertible becomes even more of a 2+2 passenger proposition, as the backrest of the rear seat is narrower and more upright. Then again, who cares what the people in the back seat think? You’re probably going to end up paying for their dinner anyway. The Camaro convertible is about a different kind of driving, where the experience is more about simple driving pleasure, not so much about the machine.
The machine is pretty happy nevertheless, thank you
Sightseeing is all well and good, and indeed you can cruise for hours in the 2016 Chevrolet Camaroconvertible with the top down and the windows up (the two big ones in front and two tiny ones in the rear), and you’ll be perfectly happy in a little bubble of warm sunshine that’s so free of turbulence that she won’t complain about having to brush her hair for an hour afterwards. But this isa Camaro, remember?
So we buttoned up the convertible top and rocketed down the road in this test car with its 335-hp 3.6-liter V-6, an engine so good that we should send the GM engineers who designed it a gift of candy and balloons every National Camaro Day. (There is one, right?) The surprise here is that you can shift hard, rev out the engine to its power peak of 6,800 rpm, and then dive through corners at completely stupid speeds and not feel let down by shake and shudder from the Camaro’s structure or skitter and skating from the Goodyear tires. The convertible’s weight penalty is about 150 pounds, and we’re promised that the car will get to 60 mph only a tick slower than the coupe, whether you choose the Tremec six-speed manual or the eight-speed automatic.
This secret here is a little Rubik’s Cube of interdependent efforts by the Camaro engineers to ensure the structural rigidity of the chassis. It starts with the new modular platform (shared with the Cadillac ATS), which is so good that slicing off the roof reduces torsional rigidity by only 30 percent. (Back in 1983 when Porsche cut off the top of the 911’s well-designed unibody, the engineers were surprised to learn that torsional rigidity dropped by 80 percent, which was the customary result in convertible design for decades to come.)
After this, the Camaro engineers have applied a package of 11 components to improve structural integrity, including a strut-tower brace, a special shear piece beneath the engine, and a giant X-shape brace beneath the platform. This is not the work of a moment in the world of high-strength steels, as all the components must have aerospace-like accuracy in order to come together happily on the production line. The overall result is 10 percent more torsional rigidity than the previous Camaro convertible delivered.
Just like a Camaro, only topless
When hammering down the road with the multi-layer top erected in place, you’re well insulated from both weather and wind noise. The interior seems only slightly more claustrophobic than the enclosure created by the coupe’s turret-like top, and the available suite of active-safety measures (notably blind-spot warning) takes away some unease in heavy traffic situations.
We were also pretty astonished at the minimal level of vibration the Camaro convertible’s structure registered through its tires over the roads through the mountains east of Death Valley. With convertibles, you usually expect the windshield header to shimmy like a hula doll in a Saturday night low rider, and indeed it once was customary for carmakers to pack the interior of the header with lead to reduce such vibration.
Instead, all is calm, even in our RS-specification version with its 20-inch tires, and the car feels like a Camaro, not a convertible.
Have it in any flavor you want
As near as we can figure from looking at Chevy’s sales site on the Internet, you can pretty much have a convertible version of any Camaro configuration you can think up. This means you can have a Camaro convertible with the new 275-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-4, the 335-hp 3.6-liter V-6, or the 455-hp 6.2-liter V-8. For all that, we prefer the V-6 in this car, as the convertible still has the liveliness we crave, yet delivers docile behavior in everyday driving and useful fuel economy on the freeway.
It’s been possible to buy a Camaro convertible in the past, of course, but it has been kind of the optional Jersey Shore package. The convertible would give you a new level of extravagant style, but you had to give up varying degrees of driving performance at the same time. With the 2016Chevrolet Camaro convertible, the soul of the car remains in place. Instead of a one-dimensional parade car, the Camaro convertible remains a driver’s car, only one with a bigger, more well-rounded personality.
2016 Chevrolet Camaro 2LT RS Convertible Specifications
On Sale:NowPrice:$36,800/$41,985 (base/as tested) (est)Engine:3.6L DOHC 24-valve V-6/335 hp @ 6,800 rpm, 284 lb-ft @ 5,300 rpmTransmission:6-speed manualLayout:2-door, 4-passenger, front-engine, RWD convertibleEPA Mileage:18/27 mpg (city/hwy)L x W x H:188.3 x 74.7 x 53.1 inWheelbase:110.7 inWeight:3,435 lb (est)0-60 MPH:5.2 sec (est)Top Speed:155 mph (est)
Top-down style with top-up speed.
By: Michael Jordan | Photography by: The Manufacturer, Patrick M. HoeyMarch 15, 2016
D
EATH VALLEY, California — It’s the kind of car that’s perfect for a little pleasant sightseeing, and we’re running low and slow with the convertible top retracted so we can appreciate the unexpected splash of color from the springtime wild flowers in Death Valley’s moonscape of sand and rocks. It’s just the sort of convertible experience you hope for.And then, as you’re rolling along at 30 mph, you trigger the power-operated top. Within seconds, you’re buttoned up beneath a tautly stretched multi-layer canvas top, and you’re ripping down the road past Zabriskie Point as fast as you can go. Sure, the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro convertible looks dramatic and behaves like something adults can enjoy, but it hasn’t sacrificed its soul.
More driver, less machine
Once you have the top laid back, the Camaro experience is a lot more enjoyable in so many ways. Instead of being enclosed in the coupe’s bunker-like environment with the narrow slits that serve as windows, the world’s largest sunroof opens. Now you’re styling in a luxury environment, especially if you choose brightly colored upholstery over the customary black.
This transformation in the driving experience comes from the 2016 Camaro convertible’s new power-operated top. It retracts just as you remember from the 2015 Camaro convertible, but now you can conduct business at 30 mph instead of waiting until the car is idling at the next stoplight. (You can even trigger the top remotely with the key fob when the car is parked.)
After some 18 seconds, the top is stowed beneath a hard tonneau cover. The hard tonneau might seem to be no more than a matter of style to you, but ask owners of the previous generation of the Camaro convertible about the condition of the canvas top’s headliner after a few years of zipping around in freeway traffic with the top retracted and uncovered by its soft tonneau bag. Unless you enjoy the availability of a ready source of road grease as a substitute for hair product, the answer will not be positive.
As you expect in any convertible and especially one with a power top, the 2016 Camaro convertible becomes even more of a 2+2 passenger proposition, as the backrest of the rear seat is narrower and more upright. Then again, who cares what the people in the back seat think? You’re probably going to end up paying for their dinner anyway. The Camaro convertible is about a different kind of driving, where the experience is more about simple driving pleasure, not so much about the machine.
The machine is pretty happy nevertheless, thank you
Sightseeing is all well and good, and indeed you can cruise for hours in the 2016 Chevrolet Camaroconvertible with the top down and the windows up (the two big ones in front and two tiny ones in the rear), and you’ll be perfectly happy in a little bubble of warm sunshine that’s so free of turbulence that she won’t complain about having to brush her hair for an hour afterwards. But this isa Camaro, remember?
So we buttoned up the convertible top and rocketed down the road in this test car with its 335-hp 3.6-liter V-6, an engine so good that we should send the GM engineers who designed it a gift of candy and balloons every National Camaro Day. (There is one, right?) The surprise here is that you can shift hard, rev out the engine to its power peak of 6,800 rpm, and then dive through corners at completely stupid speeds and not feel let down by shake and shudder from the Camaro’s structure or skitter and skating from the Goodyear tires. The convertible’s weight penalty is about 150 pounds, and we’re promised that the car will get to 60 mph only a tick slower than the coupe, whether you choose the Tremec six-speed manual or the eight-speed automatic.
This secret here is a little Rubik’s Cube of interdependent efforts by the Camaro engineers to ensure the structural rigidity of the chassis. It starts with the new modular platform (shared with the Cadillac ATS), which is so good that slicing off the roof reduces torsional rigidity by only 30 percent. (Back in 1983 when Porsche cut off the top of the 911’s well-designed unibody, the engineers were surprised to learn that torsional rigidity dropped by 80 percent, which was the customary result in convertible design for decades to come.)
After this, the Camaro engineers have applied a package of 11 components to improve structural integrity, including a strut-tower brace, a special shear piece beneath the engine, and a giant X-shape brace beneath the platform. This is not the work of a moment in the world of high-strength steels, as all the components must have aerospace-like accuracy in order to come together happily on the production line. The overall result is 10 percent more torsional rigidity than the previous Camaro convertible delivered.
Just like a Camaro, only topless
When hammering down the road with the multi-layer top erected in place, you’re well insulated from both weather and wind noise. The interior seems only slightly more claustrophobic than the enclosure created by the coupe’s turret-like top, and the available suite of active-safety measures (notably blind-spot warning) takes away some unease in heavy traffic situations.
We were also pretty astonished at the minimal level of vibration the Camaro convertible’s structure registered through its tires over the roads through the mountains east of Death Valley. With convertibles, you usually expect the windshield header to shimmy like a hula doll in a Saturday night low rider, and indeed it once was customary for carmakers to pack the interior of the header with lead to reduce such vibration.
Instead, all is calm, even in our RS-specification version with its 20-inch tires, and the car feels like a Camaro, not a convertible.
Have it in any flavor you want
As near as we can figure from looking at Chevy’s sales site on the Internet, you can pretty much have a convertible version of any Camaro configuration you can think up. This means you can have a Camaro convertible with the new 275-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-4, the 335-hp 3.6-liter V-6, or the 455-hp 6.2-liter V-8. For all that, we prefer the V-6 in this car, as the convertible still has the liveliness we crave, yet delivers docile behavior in everyday driving and useful fuel economy on the freeway.
It’s been possible to buy a Camaro convertible in the past, of course, but it has been kind of the optional Jersey Shore package. The convertible would give you a new level of extravagant style, but you had to give up varying degrees of driving performance at the same time. With the 2016Chevrolet Camaro convertible, the soul of the car remains in place. Instead of a one-dimensional parade car, the Camaro convertible remains a driver’s car, only one with a bigger, more well-rounded personality.
2016 Chevrolet Camaro 2LT RS Convertible Specifications
On Sale:NowPrice:$36,800/$41,985 (base/as tested) (est)Engine:3.6L DOHC 24-valve V-6/335 hp @ 6,800 rpm, 284 lb-ft @ 5,300 rpmTransmission:6-speed manualLayout:2-door, 4-passenger, front-engine, RWD convertibleEPA Mileage:18/27 mpg (city/hwy)L x W x H:188.3 x 74.7 x 53.1 inWheelbase:110.7 inWeight:3,435 lb (est)0-60 MPH:5.2 sec (est)Top Speed:155 mph (est)