May Car of the Month - Camaro, Then and Now!

[Bowtie-muscle]

Welcome to:

"May Car of the Month"

Featuring

Camaro Z28 '69
Camaro SS '10

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This month we will follow the latest FITT theme, Then and Now or Old and New!
As suggested by @shaunm80, the first generation Camaro and the fifth. Each generation is featured in GT6 but only the '69 Z28 and the 2010 Camaro SS will be used this month, and ONLY the Street Car versions. The '69 Camaro SS is a standard and does not match the Z28. Each can be a beast in different pp levels and can surprise you.

As always, feel free to tune as you wish, but please list tire choice and if possible a track choice for those who may want to test.

So sit down, strap in and hang on as we enjoy American Muscle from yesterday and today.

 

[Bowtie-muscle]

The Tunes
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By Bowtie-muscle :
Camaro Z28 '69 500pp
Camaro Z28 '69 525pp
Camaro SS '10 500pp
Camaro SS '10 525pp
Camaro SS '10 550pp
Camaro SS '10 575pp
Camaro SS '10 575pp Flat Floor
Camaro SS '10 600pp
Camaro SS '10 600pp Flat Floor
Camaro SS '10 625pp Flat Floor Max Power

By @shaunm80 :
Camaro Z28 '69 500pp SH
Camaro Z28 '69 550pp SS
Camaro Z28 '69 550pp SH
Camaro SS '10 500pp SS
Camaro SS '10 550pp SS
Camaro SS '10 Drift Tune

By @Rush471 :
Camaro SS '10 550pp SS

By @mgo :
Camaro SS '10 602pp SS and 500pp

By @CSLACR :
Camaro Z28 69 450pp CS
Camaro Z28 '69 500pp
Camaro SS '10 500pp
Camaro SS '10 525pp
Camaro SS '10 550pp
Camaro SS '10 575pp
Camaro SS '10 600pp
Camaro SS '10 600pp Flat Floor

By @GhostRider65 :
Camaro Z28 '69 500pp RS
Camaro SS '10 520pp RS


By @brian wolf :
Camaro Z28 69 505pp

 

[Bowtie-muscle]

The Reviews
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By @shaunm80 :

Bowtie-muscle Z28 500pp
Bowtie-muscle Z28 525pp
@CSLACR Z28 500pp
Bowtie-muscle SS 500pp
@mgo SS 602pp
Bowtie-muscle SS 600pp
Bowtie-muscle SS 600pp Flat Floor
Bowtie-muscle SS 625pp Flat Floor
@CSLACR SS 500pp
@GhostRider65 Z28 500pp
@GhostRider65 SS 520pp
@GhostRider65 SS 520pp Retest
@Rush471 SS 550pp

By @Soren Jacquet :

@shaunm80 SS 550pp
@mgo SS 602pp

By Bowtie-muscle :

@CSLACR Z28 500pp
@CSLACR SS 500pp
@shaunm80 Z28 500pp
@shaunm80 Z28 550pp
@shaunm80 SS 500pp
@shaunm80 SS 550pp
@Rush471 SS 550pp
@mgo SS 602pp
@brian wolf 505pp Z28
@GhostRider65 500pp Camaro Z28
@GhostRider65 520pp Camaro SS


By @Woodski_427 :
Z28 '69 Reviews - All in one
Bowtie-muscle SS '10 500pp
Bowtie-muscle SS '10 500pp Rally Hoonery
@shaunm80 SS '10 Drift tune
@CSLACR SS '10 525pp / Bowtie-muscle Seasonal on CS
@CSLACR/bowtie-muscle 600pp / 600pp Flat Floor


By @TurnLeft :
Bowtie-muscle Z28 69 525pp / SS '10 500pp
@shaunm80 Z28 / SS

 

[Otaliema]

The Tunes
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By Bowtie-muscle :
Camaro Z28 '69 500pp
Camaro Z28 '69 525pp
Camaro SS '10 500pp
Camaro SS '10 525pp
Camaro SS '10 550pp
Camaro SS '10 575pp
Camaro SS '10 575pp Flat Floor
Camaro SS '10 600pp
Camaro SS '10 600pp Flat Floor
Camaro SS '10 625pp Flat Floor Max Power

I expected nothing less from the bowtie man himself.
Time permitting I'll toss down a '69 I don't care for the new body styling just didn't appeal to me

 

[shaunm80]

Thank you for using my idea for this month's CoTM. I am most honoured.

I will be posting two separate posts for the cars as I have quite a few tunes for these two cars.

Firstly.

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 '69 (500PP SH)

Link here

This tune was used for a seasonal race ages ago but should work on most tracks in GT6.

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 '69 (550PP SS)

Link here

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 '69 (550PP SH)

Link here

 

[shaunm80]

Chevrolet Camaro SS '10 (500PP SS) Link here

Chevrolet Camaro SS '10 (550PP SS) Link here

Chevrolet Camaro SS '10 (Drift Version)

Link here

 

[Bowtie-muscle]

Thank you for using my idea for this month's CoTM. I am most honoured.

I will be posting two separate posts for the cars as I have quite a few tunes for these two cars.

Firstly.

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 '69 (500PP SH)

Link here

This tune was used for a seasonal race ages ago but should work on most tracks in GT6.

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 '69 (550PP SS)

Link here

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 '69 (550PP SH)

Link here

Thank you for the suggestion, you are most welcome . Honestly, I never thought to pick either of these cars. I would have chosen the Chevelle to torture others with. Both of these are really fun, the 69 will change your opinion on classic muscle cars. The 10, though a bit heavy, really gets the power down. Not as fast as a 'Vette may be but very versatile, and was designed to be a modern version of the '69.

If you make a suggestion, I do seriously consider it and have used all but one so far. The next will be in July as the month was also requested. You make a suggestion, you get the credit (or the blame ).

 

[CSLACR]

Each generation is featured in GT6

@Bowtie-muscle - There is no second generation Camaro in GT6.

 

[TurnLeft]

Cool idea 👍, I`m to busy to do a tune but if things slow down I will stop by and try them .

 

[Bowtie-muscle]

@Bowtie-muscle - There is no second generation Camaro in GT6.

Actually, there is. The Pozzi Motorsport Camaro. Not listed under Chevy so it's easy to forget.

 

[Otaliema]

Actually, there is. The Pozzi Motorsport Camaro. Not listed under Chevy so it's easy to forget.

No factory second gen
But still I don't like the new styling of them too much old school with modernization. I mean if youre going old school go old school if you're going modern go modern. Don't blend the two if you can't be bothered to hire a good designer just my two cents

 

[TurnLeft]

just my two cents

 

[Rush471]

Sorry I didn't post last month, I was really busy. But here's mine for this month!
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/tunes/chevrolet-camaro-ss-10.1377/

 

[Otaliema]

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I would so get that if I could afford one.
Edit I suppose I could go get a 1864 lg motto or 1865-1870 as they are only 10-50 USD the rest start at $300 USD and go up to $2500 USD

 

[shaunm80]

Congrats on Tune of the Week for this thread. I am not sure if the credit went to yourself or me but either way, its good that this thread is getting attention from the community news section once again

 

[Bowtie-muscle]

Congrats on Tune of the Week for this thread. I am not sure if the credit went to yourself or me but either way, its good that this thread is getting attention from the community news section once again

That's great, technically you get the credit since it was your suggestion.

 

[TurnLeft]

@shaunm80 & @Bowtie-muscle congrats to both of you , the ideas for this have been excellent 👍, it's great that people appreciate all you've done .

 

[mgo]

Hi all , I couldn't skip this car of the month. I'm a big fan of those beautiful cars 👍.

My first set is for Now Then will come in few days.

Chevrolet Camaro SS '10 602PP

I work this setup on full power full PP Sport Soft tires made it on Daytona Road Course and has been tested on Ascari Mid Field and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca . All in on-line lobby set with Very Fast Wear.

 

[shaunm80]

@shaunm80 & @Bowtie-muscle congrats to both of you , the ideas for this have been excellent 👍, it's great that people appreciate all you've done .

Thank you, I look forward to your usually fun and entertaining reviews of these cars. Hope you are doing well too.

 

[TurnLeft]

Thank you, I look forward to your usually fun and entertaining reviews of these cars.

Just hope I find the time , everything is squeezing out my play time plus I'm running a couple of projects that demand a bit of time, but the month is just starting 👍 so I should find some time somewhere.

Hope you are doing well too.

👍

Forgot to press [Post Reply] yesterday ,

 

[Otaliema]

Forgot to press [Post Reply] yesterday ,

Sounds like old man syndrome to me

 

[OdeFinn]

Worth of further tuning?

(Bad audio quality, sorry)

 

[shaunm80]

Worth of further tuning?

(Bad audio quality, sorry)

It looks a hand full but it also looks a lot of fun. As always, smooth wheel action seems to pay dividends for your driving.

 

[OdeFinn]

It looks a hand full but it also looks a lot of fun. As always, smooth wheel action seems to pay dividends for your driving.

On that run tried to find possible problems on tune, heavy foot driving, it's not so hard as it first seems, if pushing hard then it gives same back it laps 1:00.9 at Tsukuba noABS.
All driving is related smoothness of driver, pedals and wheel, relaxed driving is what I prefer, that wasn't it, it was test lap

It's fun, leave that old Yankee car feeling on it, bit soft suspension, power sliding capable tune

 

[CSLACR]

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 '69

Chevrolet Camaro SS '10

 

[CSLACR]

The new Camaro is significantly faster at 500PP, despite having 17 less HP and weighing almost 150KG more.

 

[Bowtie-muscle]

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 '69

Chevrolet Camaro SS '10

They look awesome, what color is that?

 

[CSLACR]

They look awesome, what color is that?

Arancio Atlas, from the Lambo Murc LP-670.

 

[shaunm80]

@Bowtie-muscle

Camaro Z28 '69 500pp

Review

I couldn't find the Classic Supercar Event in A spec so I took this car to the Classic Sportscar Series: Race 2 - Rome.

This car performed brilliantly here. A perfect balance of power and agility for the tight turns, long flowing corners and the brakes worked effortlessly. The transmission seemed like it was set up for this track and offered great traction out of the corners. On a rare occasion where I mis-judged a braking point, this car had a very slight, and i mean slight, understeer issue on rotation but if you hit your marks, this car will glide effortlessly around any corner.

A very good tune and I wouldn't expect anything else from a man who named his garage after this amazing car brand Great job.

More reviews to come. I will be doing the Z28 tonight and if I have time this week, I shall do a review or two of the SS '10 as well.

 

[shaunm80]

@Bowtie-muscle

Camaro Z28 '69 525pp

Review

Tested on Classic Muscle Car Series: Race 1

This car is a beast. and I mean beast with a capital B! I was leading this race after the start/finish straight after just one lap. The lead rabbit was the GT40 '66 and this car zoomed past it like it was a Ford Anglia. Amazing balance through the quick corners, brakes were spot on and the transmission caused very little smoke and sliding from the rear of the car, when a slide did appear, it was very easy to sort out with some throttle control. I loved the way this car made everything so easy and effortless. Another great example of how a Muscle car can be when the right tune is applied.

I look forward to seeing how your SS '10 tunes go after driving this amazing machine. Fun times and one that others should definitely test/review and most importantly, enjoy! I like this tune so much, I may keep these in my garage just to drive around some times.

Another great job and keep up the great work with these classic cars.