---
title: "This 990-HP Chevy Camaro Is Street-Legal, Track-Ready—And Costs $90K"
description: "The Fireball 900 Camaro packs enough power to start its own Springfield Tire Fire."
date: "2016-11-03"
modified: "2016-11-03"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/muscle-cars/5835/this-990-hp-chevy-camaro-is-street-legal-track-ready-and-costs-90k"
categories:
  - "Chevrolet News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Camaro"
  - "Chevrolet"
  - "Coupe"
  - "fireball"
  - "sports car"
---

# This 990-HP Chevy Camaro Is Street-Legal, Track-Ready—And Costs $90K

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As it is most years, the 2016 SEMA show is a veritable orgy of automotive extravagance, each hall and every booth packing flashier cars than the last. By those standards, [the stock-looking Fireball 900 Camaro seen here](<https://gmauthority.com/blog/2016/11/990-horsepower-fireball-chevrolet-camaro-debuts-at-2016-sema-show/>) that debuted at the show doesn’t seem like it’d be worth more than a quick glance.

But you know what they say about judging books by their covers. Beneath that rather conventional skin lies a supercharged engine making more than 900 horsepower at the crank.

Thanks to a long, long list of engine modifications that starts with the aforementioned blower, runs through ported heads and high-flow cats, and wraps up with an aluminum drive shaft and high-strength axles, [the Fireball 900 Camaro whips up 827 horsepower and 677 lb.-ft of torque at the wheels, according to the dyno reading the tuner proudly displays on its site](<https://fireballcamaro.com/first-990-horsepower-camaro-dealers-90k/>). Assume a 20 percent drivetrain loss, as the company does, and you wind up with a power output brushing against 1,000 ponies—hence Fireball’s quoted 990-hp number.

(Granted, [stock Camaros have exhibited drivetrain losses of closer to 10 percent on the dyno](<https://www.torquenews.com/106/2016-camaro-ss-makes-impressive-power-dyno-video>), but even that would put the Fireball 900’s crankshaft output comfortably in the 900-hp range.)

While understated, the Fireball 900 isn’t entirely stock on the outside. That bulging black hood is a custom job, as are the red-and-black wheels. And as has become tradition for [tuning shops pulling batty power levels out of stock cars](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/2284/hennessey-challenger-hellcat-makes-1-032-twincharged-horsepower>), Fireball has outfitted this Camaro with plenty of badges bearing the shop’s name.

[The team at Fireball is no stranger to stupidly-powerful ‘Maros](<https://www.facebook.com/fireballcamaro/>). As [a glance at the company’s blog reveals](<https://fireballcamaro.com/category/blog/>), Fireball’s bread and butter is building Camaros made for the drag strip. Many of those have been specialty dragsters, but it also seems to know its way around road-going muscle cars. Early this year, the company whipped up a sixth-gen Camaro SS that broke the 10-second barrier at the quarter mile, [cooking off a 9.83-second run](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBpVwfx7aM>).

Should you be interested in bringing home a 990-horsepower Camaro of your very own—as we are—Fireball is offering them through a handful of dealerships, [such as Eskridge Chevrolet of Guthrie, Oklahoma](<https://www.eskridgechevrolet.com/?utm_source=Fireball&utm_medium=Website-Performance%20Mods&utm_term=Fireball700&utm_campaign=Fireball700>), for a starting price of around $90,000. There’s also a welterweight version making around 720 horses...but we say, hey, go big or go home.

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/willsabelcourtney>)  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)