Quote Originally Posted by Ron Earp View Post
I'm not a 4th generation Camaro guru and I'm assuming your not quoting marketing/magazine/web curb weights, but the Mustang hasn't played out as badly as predicted. With the stang it is more a question of dropping few hundreds of pounds, not many hundreds of pounds. Any chance of a real-world V6 T5 Camaro in street trim coming in at 3100-3200 lbs with a light driver sitting in the seat?

I haven't been asked but I don't think a 3.8L V6 Camaro in ITS at 3XXX lbs would be that attractive. It'd have the juice though. I'm not much up on ITA, but I wouldn't fancy my chances with a 3XXX lbs weight in ITA either. I think I'd rather race a 3.4L V6 Camaro a couple of hundred pounds over spec weight in ITS than race it in ITA at its curb weight. But, there again, I don't have much Camaro experience. Is the CRB/ITAC considering re-classing the Camaro?

I do like the Camaro classed in ITR though at around 2800 lbs. That weight seems obtainable, the chassis has some good features, and the motor should be able to make power needed for the class. Bummer that the 3.4L ITS version has rear drum brakes - I swore those off when I sold the Z.
Ron - not a guru either, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn...err, scratch that - I did take my car ('02, V6, T5) across the scales at Summit a couple of years ago just to see what I would have to lose to get to ITR weight. With my 250 lb backside in the seat, and about 1/4 tank of gas (~4 gals) it came in at 3535 lbs. That was in full street trim - spare tire, jack, full interior, etc.

The V6 currently runs in SSB at 3300 lbs, and the V8 version is classed at 3530 lbs in both AS and T2. To the best of my knowledge, other than things you can change in IT trim (springs, sway bars), the suspension, diff, and brakes are identical on both V6 and V8 versions. I know 3300 lbs sounds heavy to us in IT-land, where 2600 lb cars are considered pigs, but I think that car will work at the higher weight. That said, I really don't think this will be a great car in either class; I think Andy summed it up well...something like "you can put lipstick on a pig, but in the end it's still a pig".

And yeah, I put in a request to have the V6 Camaros & Firebirds moved to ITS months ago; I just received an email that the ITAC & CRB have reviewed the request, and the decision should be in the next FT.