990 Horsepower Fireball Chevrolet Camaro Debuts At 2016 SEMA Show
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The horsepower standard has steadily crept up over the years. Figures found in super cars of the 1990s can now normally be found in an average crossover, and normally with a much smaller displacement. To play today, power better be approaching 1,000 ponies.
The Fireball Chevrolet Camaro has done just that, and at an incredibly affordable price, too. Fireball revealed the first production vehicle with 990 hp and at a starting price of just $90,000. However, it’s only 900 ponies if you cheap out at the starting price.
Fireball has tacked on a supercharger, custom cam, high-performance lifters, long-tube headers, ported heads and much, much more to help the Camaro reach its lofty horsepower figure.
As for design, the Fireball Camaro features a custom hood, wheels and special badging to differentiate itself on the road.
Fireball has made quite a proclamation. 900 horsepower for less than $100 per pony? That may be something many can buy into.
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Imagine if all 900-950 horsepower came from a seriously reworked LTG 2.0L DOHC-4v 4-cyl turbo; then again, a LTG with a couple of 300 hp electric motors.
Time we grow up, consider the environment and future generations, It’s not just about you and me.
“Do it for the children” (do what for the children? A MASSIVE 990hp-powered burnout, that’s what!)
No, its not about you. Its about me. Future generations are doomed anyways so have fun while we stll are around. All ends in 2036.
Oy, here’s one thats dragging his pessimism out another twenty years. Good luck with a happy life amigo..
The doom will not be from the environment. The corrupt government will be the end of civilization as we know it.
Ha ha…brother…Melodrama major no doubt
The earth is ours and going fast on top of it doesn’t hurt anyone. Your mindless rant is rather obnoxious.
Haha – you environmental-fascists are critical of ANY human advancement. If it’s up to you guys people would be living in trees and eating bugs and kale.
It’s time for the eco fascists to grow up and consider PEOPLE and future generations. It’s not just about the lakes and mountains.
You’re a cultist, with voodoo data that is your bible. Go buy a car with 990 horsepower, eat red meat, bang a blonde, and join the human race.
Dang,does she have to be a blonde?
I’d like to buy you a beer!
I guess we still should be living in caves and wiping our tails with leaves. Moron !
Most of us have not bought into the hype by liberals who want to control others…the concocted story of man-caused global warming. The earth has produced it’s own pollutants for millions of years (volcanic eruptions, oil leaking from fissures in the ocean floor) and you know what…the earth has dealt with it all and still survived. Man is a tick on an elephant’s ass in the scheme of things. By the way, when solar activity increases, temps go up…and when it decreases they go down…been that way for millions of years, here on earth and on other planets too. Take your self inflicted guilt somewhere else…we ain’t buyin’ it here.
990 horsepower…..f#ck yeah!
Sounds like great fun but doesn’t come even close to the power-to-weight ratio of some of the hyper-bikes out there.
Kawasaki’s latest lunatic machine features 331 net horsepower, for a power to weight ratio of something like 1HP for every 1.3 lbs of weight. I’m a moderately deranged sport-bike faggot myself but can’t imagine who could control that thing.
Do what for children (favorite political tool of radical leftists) and environment, make MORE pollution using electricity for mass transportation?
The generation and distribution losses would make it LESS efficient than gasoline.
Sadly, stupid people like you fall for that political diatribe.
/s/ engineer that aint falling for the politcally motivated lies
Free energy has been around since the Egyptians. Research magnetic motors, the government owns all the patents. I can take a dump and pay my illegal income tax but im still driving a combustion engine. How dumb are we?
Bill Nye the non science guy?
You’re probably one of those folks who eats tofu, takes a fiber supplement, and takes cold showers.
Yes, but he gets to bask in the glow of his moral superiority over we swinish peasants, who, incidentally, make everything, grow everything, maintain everything, invent everything, and make the trains and planes run on time.
When the glaciers that carved out the Great Lakes melted 10,000 years ago I’ll bet there were some liberal/progressive/tree hugging self hating Indigenous peoples claiming that cooking fires and buffalo farts were the cause.
What is the difference between an environmentalist and a capitalist? A capitalist is somebody who wants to tear down some trees to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is somebody who has already torn down the trees to build his house in the woods.
OMG I thought an environmentalist was against tearing down trees. I have actually seen these same yahoos chained to trees. Learn something every day.
Well you try saving the saving the earth with Leonardo meanwhile I will be pulling out of every stop sign sideways.
William Bellah, … morbidly obese and a testosterone level of 1.
Further proof that 1 in 3 liberals are as stupid as the other 2
Sounds like a sanders supporter, who wants us to spend our money on him instead of fun.
Soon you leftists will be sidelined… wondering why the world turned on you so suddenly…. LOLOLOL will be great.
You been taught wrong. Burning rubber, carbon exhaust is actually good for the environment. Ice caps weren’t melting back in the 70’s bout time we went back to what works. Plus fast cars are fun ?
What an ultra-maroon.
You should see the children all light up with excitement when they see those tires fire up!
THAT’s for the children!
Sounds like something a mustang owner would say. Haha jk the environment is a big deal. But seriously.
The best thing we can do to advance the cause of “renewable” energy is to burn up all that nasty high octane gasoline. I volunteer to use one of these as my daily driver. Just ‘doin my part, ya know.
I’m sure you walk or ride a bike everywhere you go. The Earth was here before man got here and will be here after we are gone
Safe those comments for AL GORE and the CHEM TRAILS HE CREATES WITH HIS BIG OL JET AIRLINERS. HIM AND THE REST WHO PREACH THAT PROPAGANDA . THE CARBON FOOTPRINT people like the CLINTONS….OBAMA ARE 10 MILLION TIMES BIGGER THAT A BIG BAD ASS ROMPING ….STOMPING V-8.
Just think 10 years from now a 16 year old will be driving that car! I wish I was 6 again.
^ zzp is getting their ltg 2.o to 1000hp
That name is going to be unfortunate joke at some point…
Lot of idiots with too much money and too little brains and experience gonna die here and maybe take some others with them.. Can’t wait to see their insurance premiums. Nobody appreciates neck snapping seat pinning torque and horsepower like me but where the deuce are you gonna use it without getting jackpotted except on the drag strip ??
You won’t see their respective insurance costs and it varies anyway due to the driver being insured. If someone can afford a $100,000 vehicle I certainly wouldn’t argue that the person is going to be hurt from the costs of insuring it. There’s an 1/8th mile test n tune track just a county south of here and a 1/4 track but an hour ride north. Just saying, there are plenty of places to take a street car for a white knuckle ride in SW Florida.
Any Interstate will do. Most likely if stopped by a Trooper,they’ll want to give it a little go against their Ford Crown Vics.
It’s called thinning the herd.
There is an android app that can still be donloaded on line that show where not only the speed cops are but all other traffic up ahead as weii as behind you
When the cops fire up radar their dot icreases in size as well as brightness.
So hammer down YUPEE!!
From Odumbass Motors.
Woo hoop more horse power!!!! The American way. Way to go GM
Woo hoo more horse power!!!! The American way. Way to go GM
Paid placement without identification. Government Motors at its best
Looks like a Mustang.
Only look of a Mustang this thing is gonna have is the little bittty headlights way back in the rear view mirror as this this pulls away.
I’d rather an old 1968 camero with a good old 327 any day.
Camero really? Let me know when you find a camero. I have seen many camaro’s but never one camero.
Njguy knows his cars! That 327 Camero, before they put the heavy bumpers on them, was my idea of a kickass sports car. Small high-revving V8 in a light chassie and low gearing. Those sucker flew like a bat out of hell.
How about a car I can work on instead of this teenage fantasy?
We will be seeing videos like the ones for the Mustangs where they go out of control and smash into things.
Almost 1000 HP is crazy insane. This will result in the deaths of people as they just don’t know how to handle all that horsepower. The back ends of these new muscle cars seem to be too light and cannot handle that kind of horsepower. What is needed is a 4 wheel drive system that can plant all that power to the ground without all that wheel spin and resulting loss of control.
Too “light”. Now there’s a crackerjack suspension designer for ya.
I agree. I just had my Camaro 2SS speed tuned and did a few other things to get it to approx 450 hp and it’s crazy fast. The torque, when you hit it hard, is so hard that you need to see a chiropractor after driving it. I cannot imagine what driving a 1000 hp vehicle would be like; especially given there is no practical place to drive it and still use that much hp. Seems like a waste of money, unless you’re won of those guys who…..well, you know….
Anyone thought about how self-driving cars will likely have 200hp or whatever is deemed “necessary”? So, get your thrills now as they will go away when the government mandates these new cars for everyone!
Motorcycle riders will still exist, that’s all I care about. And with all the rest in automated cars, I won’t have to worry about people turning in front of me and trying to kill me because the sun is in their eyes.
My odds of survival go up big time once the rest of the population has their driving rights stripped away. You want to risk a life? Risk your own on a bike.
you think youre safer? they are marketing these “autonomous braking systems” to people by advertising that you can drive like a moron(daydreaming, talking, having an american idol fantasy) and it will be ok the car will take care of it, now they wont even give a second thought to texting while driving. that wouldnt make me feel safe on a bike. also one of these robo cars just drove straight into the side of a SEMI TRUCK that it somehow didnt see, killing the driver/test dummy. its all marketing bull.any unusual situation that cant be anticipated/pre programmed is a crap shoot. good luck
Steve McQueen….the original one….once said…..”Driving a car is like watching a great movie……riding a motorcycle is like starring in it.”
Sell a few and pay back the taxpayer money from the bail out! Boycott GM until we get our money back. I don’t care about jobs being created, they took the money. Pay it back.
Ignorant! Gm payed it back and American auto industry employees pay the government over 150 million in taxes every year. The government saved themselves not gm. We would of lost ww2 if it wasnt for the American auto industry. Open a book before you open your ignorant mouth. Have some respect, stop being ignorant and get a real job! “You people” make me sick.
and they paid us back for bailing out their retirement too, right? oops
Mike, you make ME sick. POS. GM should be gone. I will never own another GM, even if someone gave it to me free. ANd for the record, the govt sold its shares for a massive loss….a loss with taxpayer money of course so what do they care and what does GM care. My E92 TT would outperform this rag of a car even with 240 ponies less.
The American people bailed out GM with 50 BILLION Dollars plus. And they repay the American people by building Cadillac and Buick manufacturing plants in China. Trump never would have made that deal.
They still have their private Auto Museum in Warren MI, east off of Mound, north of 15 Mile, paid for with our tax dollars. You need an invitation to see these priceless cars. They should have been sold to pay us back. I’m sure Jay Leno would have liked a shot at owning some of them.
Tell us genius Mike, why FORD didn’t need a bailout?
Not only that, Obama shat all over the bankruptcy laws and hosed the “secured” bondholders to rain the cash down on his UAW thugs instead.
Actually GM paid back the loans. As for the shares the Government sold at a loss, that is their bad judgement. Remember when Apple was in trouble in 1996 and their shares were down to $14 a share. Let’s say the Government bought shares then to help them out then sold them for the $600 or so a share now. People would be calling it a genius move. Don’t be so ignorant, the bailout just didn’t help GM, it saved the thousands of sub-contractors that GM uses from being screwed over in a GM bankruptcy cost many more jobs than the ones just at GM. Stop being a right wing nut job. What was killing the US auto companies was the old school pensions that no company has. The cost of built into new cars for the over 1 million retired pensions was over 2k a car. Hard to compete with the Japs and others who don’t have pensions at all for their US workers. Bad investments are bad investments but all the Bailout money that was loaned to GM and the Banks were paid back with interest.
It’s the cycle all over again. In the 70’s, during the first “oil crisis”, all the big muscle
cars from Ford, Chrysler, GM were scrapped for econo-box 4 cylinder junk cars.
It’s taken 40 years for muscle cars with big engines to make a come back.
I’m guessing it’s going to hit again, gas shoots up, and the muscle cars will get
scrapped again, for the cheap econ-box crap cars again.
Interesting for a fictional car.
After all, GM went out of business in 2008.
And all the dudes that will be driving it will be doing 55mph on the highway. I never understood these cars.
Obviously “incredibly affordable price” is a relative term.
The Dodge Charger/Challenger Hellcat has 707 horsepower and it can’t stay grounded. It’s too much power going to to wheels. An AWD version is rumored but it would make the car far too heavy. I can’t see this being much different. Total overkill.
Exactly. We were at a Friday night drags last week and the Hellcats couldn’t get off the line cleanly to save their lives. What amazed everyone was the Tesla P90D. Launched like a rocket.
The reason the Hellcat can’t “stay grounded” is due to the fact they put little skinny tires on it. When someone puts 335/35/20 meats on that Hellcat it will “stay grounded” enough to rip up the asphalt. Chrysler dropped the ball on the wheel/tire combo on the Hellcat. Blame them !!
Most people aren’t willing to put drag radials on their cars
Man, that looks good in black! As the owner of a ’72 Grand Prix with around 620HP with a father who built a ’72 Firebird Formula with 750+HP, 1000HP is just insane on a RWD car that light. You could only use it for high speed runs, and I don’t see and changes in gearing. So, you’d run out of RPM before you’d run out of power.
Also, Fireball Camaro is associated with Black Horse Racing out of Oklahoma City. I don’t see any connections with the Street Outlaws crew from Discovery Channel, but who knows.
http://fireballcamaro.com/first-990-horsepower-camaro-dealers-90k/
Bunch of whiney girly-boys. What the hell happened to good old American horsepower?? Geeeezus, I guess our country IS dead and all the men have had their balls shrivel up and fall off. Sign of the times but sad and depressing.
Been happening for a while. Want to really get depressed? Check this crap out:
Who needs it?