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Here's a question for you: other than a fetish for Shelbys or SRTs, what could make you feel that a Camaro SS is just as good as a ZL1? The answer comes from Hennessey, as the tuner likes to treat both hot incarnations of the 2016 Camaro equally.
And since the Texan developer had announced a 2016 Camaro SS... line-up spreading all the way to 1,000 ponies, the company has now announced a somewhat similar move involving the Corvette Z06-engined 2017 Camaro ZL1.
While the SS gets an eight-stage muscle upgrade, the ZL1 gym has four stages, but both models get 1,000-pony range-topping versions.
In fact, while the HPE1000 Camaro SS is rated at 1008 hp, the figure for the HPE1000 ZL1 sits at 1,000 hp. But don't tell keyboard warriors about it, as they'll start a posting riot as it happened with the Camaro-SS-Beats-Corvette-C7-on-dyno story that was blown out of proportion.
Returning to the Lone Star State developer's 2017 ZL1 program, this was quietly introduced on the tuner's website during a recent update.
As we mentioned, the HPE1000 ZL1 will allow the driver to control 1,000 hp at 6,300 rpm - note that Hennessey straps its cars to the dyno and then estimates the crank output automakers love so much.
Let's say you feel that 1,000 ponies are too much, but the 640 hp Chevrolet gifts the new ZL1 with also seem insufficient. This is where the rest of the upgrades step in, as you can dial your supercharged Camaro to 740, 800 or 850 horses.
And since we're talking about a Camaro that hasn't even reached its customers yet, we have to also discuss warranty. While the HPE750 ZL1 will have you covered for 3 years/36,000 miles, the safety net is reduced to 2 years/24 miles for the HPE800 and HPE850 models.
When it comes to the HPE1000 Camaro ZL1, this only gets a 1 year/12,000-mile warranty. Then again, we have a feeling this isn't all that important when you've got your forged internals and feel like the king of combustion thanks to getting over 1.5 times the original power of a 2017 ZL1.
While the SS gets an eight-stage muscle upgrade, the ZL1 gym has four stages, but both models get 1,000-pony range-topping versions.
In fact, while the HPE1000 Camaro SS is rated at 1008 hp, the figure for the HPE1000 ZL1 sits at 1,000 hp. But don't tell keyboard warriors about it, as they'll start a posting riot as it happened with the Camaro-SS-Beats-Corvette-C7-on-dyno story that was blown out of proportion.
Returning to the Lone Star State developer's 2017 ZL1 program, this was quietly introduced on the tuner's website during a recent update.
As we mentioned, the HPE1000 ZL1 will allow the driver to control 1,000 hp at 6,300 rpm - note that Hennessey straps its cars to the dyno and then estimates the crank output automakers love so much.
Let's say you feel that 1,000 ponies are too much, but the 640 hp Chevrolet gifts the new ZL1 with also seem insufficient. This is where the rest of the upgrades step in, as you can dial your supercharged Camaro to 740, 800 or 850 horses.
And since we're talking about a Camaro that hasn't even reached its customers yet, we have to also discuss warranty. While the HPE750 ZL1 will have you covered for 3 years/36,000 miles, the safety net is reduced to 2 years/24 miles for the HPE800 and HPE850 models.
When it comes to the HPE1000 Camaro ZL1, this only gets a 1 year/12,000-mile warranty. Then again, we have a feeling this isn't all that important when you've got your forged internals and feel like the king of combustion thanks to getting over 1.5 times the original power of a 2017 ZL1.
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