If you guys know of any cool builds, or actual race cars post them up here I am having a hard time finding them on Google. Aside from the guy that slams it and puts it on “DVBBS”, I don’t know if any Camry has ever been hot rodded in its life.
If you guys know of any cool builds, or actual race cars post them up here I am having a hard time finding them on Google. Aside from the guy that slams it and puts it on “DVBBS”, I don’t know if any Camry has ever been hot rodded in its life.
Probably not hot roddded but I thought GRM tracked one and blew the motor due to oil starvation.
Anyway, this interests me. I’ll have a look.
GRM had a project Camry in 2012-ish.
I've had this on my computer for a while:
Try Rutledge Wood Camry and NASCAR stars camry. Should find something.
ebonyandivory said:Probably not hot roddded but I thought GRM tracked one and blew the motor due to oil starvation.
Anyway, this interests me. I’ll have a look.
Blew 3 motors, actually.
A friend of mine has had a couple of boosted Camrys. As he put it, it's the best racecar ever: If you lose, they can't brag because they beat a Camry. If you win, they're humiliated because they lost to a Camry.
There's a video of one making 1000+ hp floating around online too...
I'll just leave this here.
There's probably been plenty of Camrys loaded with dope.
Grizz said:There's probably been plenty of Camrys loaded with dope.
It's best to haul drugs in something inconspicuous, and you don't get much more inconspicuous than a Camry.
there's going to be two Camry's and an Avalon at OneLap this year (built/driven by production employees)... I'll try to make sure to take pictures of them
There is a super clean looking one, I'd guess around the year of the race car pictures above, that really turns me head every time I see it driving around. It's gold with a lower lip airdam with some gold BBS mesh wheels and looks to be lowered slightly.
Everytime I see it I can't help but stare.
And that makes me a little sad inside.
Some reading shows the Camry could be had awd in Japan. (Shudders thinking about the swap)
im thinking late ‘90’s, v6, and hopeful 5spd.
In reply to Trackmouse :
Previous gen 88-91 camry's were available as awd. S based chassis too, so the squares could use a 3sgte. Basically a Camry alltrac turbo.
Sounds like a glass cannon.
As far as i'm concerned, an early 3.0/5spd Camry or ES300 is basically wheels and suspension mods from being cool already.
In reply to Trackmouse :
Quite the opposite. Wicked strong cars.
Mndsm said:In reply to Trackmouse :
Previous gen 88-91 camry's were available as awd. S based chassis too, so the squares could use a 3sgte. Basically a Camry alltrac turbo.
How close is the RAV4 to a Camry platform? Wondering if you could combine a later Camry and a RAV4 to make something AWD.
For an engine, I'd rather go with a 3S-GTE over the V6.
I've always thought the 2nd and 3rd-generation ES300s were a handsome design. Wikipedia says that the 2nd-gen was available with a 5-speed manual, and being Camry based, couldn't you swap in a Camry 5-speed and pedal assembly if you couldn't find a factory stickshift ES300? And they had a 1MZ, which there was a TRD blower kit for. Lowered ES300 on some nice wheels with a supercharged V6 and a 5-speed? Yeah, I could get behind that.
Edit: Apparently Jalopnik even owned a manual transmission ES300 that they paid $600 for at one point. So they do exist in the real world
FWIW, the TRD blower kit only makes 4 psi. And from what friend who was big into building Camrys discovered, smaller pulley and making 7 psi on a 1MZ leads to a pretty short life for the rings before they're toasted and the thing just blows smoke everywhere.
Does this one count?
MadScientistMatt said:Mndsm said:In reply to Trackmouse :
Previous gen 88-91 camry's were available as awd. S based chassis too, so the squares could use a 3sgte. Basically a Camry alltrac turbo.
How close is the RAV4 to a Camry platform? Wondering if you could combine a later Camry and a RAV4 to make something AWD.
For an engine, I'd rather go with a 3S-GTE over the V6.
i dont know suspension-wise but i've read that the rav4 awd manual trans is pretty much the same as the all-trac awd trans which are known for being pretty stout.
An 8 page forum post about the GRM Race Camry: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/so-now-we-know-never-try-to-make-a-camry-into-a-race-car/65588/page1/
If you decide on a dope Camry, remember to hit up the stick on section in Autozone:
Well the all trac system also came on the previa. So I wonder how much of these systems can interact with each other?
None of it is electronically controlled. There are just air controlled solenoids from what the internet is telling me.
Nascar has lots of Camry's racing.
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