PROJECT g/28 PART 2

摘要

Project g/28, our Gen II 76 Camaro, picks up momentum this month as we dive into arguably the most important system: the suspension. As the interface between the body and the road, the suspension can make or break the handling; get the suspension wrong and nothing else down the line matters. And while it is very easy to just throw a pile of cash and custom fabrication at a new project car, the real challenge is to get the good result without paying all that cash. As we stated in part 1, the goal of this project is to build a g-Machine without a lot of cash. Specifically, we'd like to get this thing done for under $20K-car included. It ain't gonna look pretty, but we think we can knock down some respectable numbers to the tune of 0.90g on the 200ft skidpad, 46 mph through the 420ft slalom, high 12-second quarter mile ETs, and a 60-0 mph stopping distance of 120 feet In keeping with these goals, we selected a Gen II Camaro. These cars have much better suspension geometry than the highly sought-after Gen 1 cars, and they're cheaper too. Between 1970 and 1981, Chevrolet made over 1.9 million of them-and they all share the same suspension components. We haven't even counted the hundreds of thousands of Firebirds and Trans Ams built during the same period, but the sum of all Gen II Camaros and Firebirds makes it the most prolific musclecar ever.