NOVEMBER 2019 II CHEVY HIGH PERFORMANCE 15
and sometimes makes his living dispensing
programming via email; whenever possible he
does it on site. New Pro Street cars no longer labor
beneath a bulging bonnet. The modest cowl hood
on Marc’s Camaro is there mostly in the interest
of alleviating obscene engine bay temperature
common to a turbocharged engine; dual radiator
cores are indispensable.
Despite the lack of cues, the Camaro still is not
much of a sleeper. You’d have to be asleep not to
notice the exhaust collectors jutting through the
front fenders all race car-like, the minimal-contact
skinnies and those two-foot-wide hides slinging
on bead-locks broadcast intention without
making a sound. On the other hand, Marc pilots
his hard-core Camaro on highways and city streets
with nary a muffler! Running “turbo quiet” was
the goal. Torque is absorbed by a Reid-cased
Turbo 400 transmission built by Andy Frost
at Penn Autos. Frost included a Neal Chance
converter set with a 4,500-stall speed.
It was obvious that the bed for this latent
commotion be on par with the drivetrain. The
108-inch wheelbase chassis was erected with tube
and box from Webster Race Engineering (hard
by Santa Pod Raceway). A fabricated 9-inch is
stocked with a spool twisting Moser 40-spline
axleshafts. The mess is under auspice of a four-
link rear suspension, Strange Engineering double-
adjustable coilovers, and drag-style four-piston