Good morning Ty,
Let's have some fun. Please elaborate on "Track". What type of tracks? Are there specific venues and or events in mind? Given that you have other toys, you might be able to make your Camaro more focused. I, likewise, have a comfy, bone stock 1965 Riviera. Black on Black on Black. The Riv allowed me to do a more aggressive build on my Camaro.
If you don't mind, Please guestimate at the percentages of application if possible as follows: (See Below)
Would you be open to publicly answering a more thorough survey so that others might benefit from your decision process? Absolutely
In addition to the above questions. Questions would be like this: Are you afraid of paint chips? Will you be performing your own fabrication? ...That kind of stuff. I'm Open!
If you don't mind, Please guestimate at the percentages of application if possible as follows:
Street/Touring %: up to 50% or (What I can get my wife to put up with, or the purpose of the trip) I would like to make the Power Tour one of these days. Living in Texas I won't have a Car without a/c!! I know when first acquired or running, I'll have my Butt in it every chance I can. That said, I think it would depend how I feel or what I feel like driving. I DO WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THE POWER TOUR WITH DEPENDABILITY! I've read so much about it, I think it would be a blast. I'm not keen on doing a lot of street racing because of the risk to everyone and myself. So street racing if done at all would be up to the speed limit or slightly past and that's it, just to watch my occuments grin. Most people I know have never really been in a fast car.
Drag: % 5-10% (Mostly to reminice about my High School Days and for fun or dialing in the car) I usually go with my wife to just watch as she is a big fan. (She loves how the top fuel make the stadium seats rumble, and that's ALL I'm going to say about that. Plus the drivers are really nice to meet and speak with) Our nearest good Drag Strip is South of Dallas (in Ennis, TX) about 30-40 miles, and I live 20 miles North of Dallas, and probably the Powder Tour Drag Stuff?
RoadRace/Auto-X: % as much as possible, realistically probably 20-40% depending on distance to the course. Also, I have a car trailor so if I had the front end dialed in for the track, I wouldn't have to drive 200 miles round trip on expensive tires for the hell of it, plus I'm positive I will have some people will want to come with me from time to time. Plus if I break the car or God Forbid have a mishap, I can get home. So % of time on the track I'm not exactly how to answer that because actual milage on the car won't necessarily include driving to and from it.
Training %- Not sure but throw that in with track time.
I'm about 40 miles due east of the Texas Motor Speedway and I think they give lessons and have a inside closed course for us Amatuers. There is a Strong SCCA Group in the DFW area as well as a strong Local Camaro club.
Will you be performing your own fabrication? At this point I can't answer that question accurately because I just had my second shoulder replacement, and I don't know what I'm going to get back as far as strength, motion etc. For discussion sake let's assume very little. Also, at this point I'm still waiting to see if a Manual 6 speed is in my future, or a Schrifter with a 6L80e.
Paint Chips? - Well they always suck, but you going to get them if your going to drive the darn thing, and if I'm not going to Drive it, I'll just go to a car show and look at everyone else's. A buddy of mine put something on his car called I think, an invisible Bra. He swears it works and he drives the hell out of his car. It's one of those new Chevy Trucks that doesn't really haul anything and has a LS-2 in it . He put on a Supercharger and a 20k paint job. He put one of these Bra type things that go on top of the paint and his car looks really good still.
When they had that meet this last year up in Detroit he drove to it and there is a small picture of his car in HOTROD magazine. His name is Mike Fox (No Relation) and his car looks like it ran through and American Flag and kept on going. (There are tears and rips and stuff in the rippling flag) It's pretty impressive. I told him now to be proper since the flag is torn and worn, he needs to burn it. He didn't smile, but thats another story.
Anyway,
Does this help?
I certainly don't mind answering these questions publicly, I really appreciate having the advice of you all on this board.
I await you comments.............
Ty O'Neal