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0:05 Camaro Z/28 logo 0:07 Z/28 Bead Lock
0:09 During the track development of the Z/28, at multiple tracks around the country,
0:12 We noticed under hard braking and hard acceleration, that we started to get a vibration
of the vehicle 0:17 And this was traced back to the rotation
of the tire on the rim. 0:20 We have so much braking and so much power
that the Trifeo-R tires, 0:24 With the amount of tenacious grip that
they have, would slip on the rim. 0:26 To root cause the problem, we used a
racer trick to chalk the tires and go out and run tests.
0:33 It was rotating a full 360, so we were getting much more slip than we anticipated.
0:37 We went back to a racing solution: media blasting the rim right in the bead seat
0:40 To give it adhesion between the rim and the tire.
0:45 Media blasting the rims is just one of the levels of detail this team went through
0:48 To make sure this is the most track-capable, and track-durable, Camaro that GM has ever
produced. 0:53 Chevrolet bowtie logo