We recently shared with you the new venture of Drag Week Unlimited champion Tom Bailey and the performance goals he’d laid out for the second-coming of his famed “Sick Seconds” Camaro, as he shared with the world his mission for 5.50’s in the quarter-mile and 300 mph in the standing-mile. Bailey gave some hints to his plans, and proved he was as serious as the day is long when he posted a photo of a particularly large crate with “Skinny Kid Race Cars” marked on the side.

Well it didn’t take long for Bailey to let the proverbial cat out of the bag, and it all coincided well with Larry Larson’s record-breaking five-second run in Las Vegas over the weekend. What Bailey will press into battle next year in his effort to break records and just generally piss everyone off is what he’s coined “Sick Seconds 2.0” — a completely brand new 1969 Chevrolet Camaro from the ground-up that’s being assembled by Keith Engling at Skinny Kid, featuring a lightweight composite body from Joe Van Overbeek.

Proving Bailey’s project isn’t just talk or fairy dust, photos of the car under construction have already been shared on social media, and in what is nothing short of a monumental task, Engling and Bailey have every intention of having the car complete enough to roll it into the PRI Show in Indianapolis in just over a week, where it will be on display in the Turbosmart USA booth for all the world to see.

But as Bailey tells us, contrary to popular though, Sick Seconds 2.0 isn’t a response to Larson’s new pickup, but the execution of a plan he drew up following his Drag Week victory a year ago.

“Two years ago we wanted to step everything up, but at that time we weren’t sure what changes were going to be made to the Drag Week rules, so we chose to sit back and run for another year with the car we had until the rules were in place. Once everything was solid after this year’s event, we went and ahead and pulled the trigger on this project.”

As Bailey explains, his intention has been to construct a vehicle that “isn’t one-dimensional — that isn’t a one-trick pony for Drag Week.” As he went on to share,  the goal is to compete at PDRA races with the street legal car, and for that, he reasons, one needs an all-out Pro Mod. Likewise, the Ohio Mile standing-mile events are on his radar, and even at this stage, the preparations that have already been put into the project show the determination Bailey has to not just compete in different arenas, but to win. From the chassis to partnerships to deliver adequate components to wind tunnel testing — it’s all been planned.

“We think weight-wise that we’re going to be good to go. When we put all of the street equipment on it we should still be under weight, so we’ll have to add ballast to run with the Pro Mods in street trim.”

Bailey sourced the body from Van Overbeek, who he’ confident is the best carbon fiber artist in the business, and supplied it to Engling, who’s been tasked with constructing a chassis strong enough, particularly in the trailer hitch and towing capacity department, to handle the driving duties on Drag Week. This, he feels, couldn’t have been accomplished with any standard Pro Modified chassis.

“This car has all the strength in place to be able to put it in street trim without being too excessive. Obviously we want to keep the weight down, and there’s a fine line between ensuring we can drive it on the street over a thousand miles and also not gain too much weight so we can be competitive in Pro Mod.”

Bailey lives just fifteen minutes from Engling’s shop in Commerce, Michigan, and that allows Bailey to be very hands-on with the project, which only got underway little more than three weeks ago.

In forming the body, Van Overbeek had to take special steps with the doors to provide Bailey the with power window operation he desired. As well, with concerns of the door skin being ripped off at 300 mph, extra precautions were taken in their design. A mold was also done of the final door design, so that if one were sucked off and destroyed, another door could be made without starting from scratch.

A pair of rear end housings are being built — with one intended for the dragstrip and the other for the standing mile — to work with the variation in tire sizes that will be used in the vastly different venues. A 28-inch tire will be utilized for land speed duties. For wheels, Bailey has sourced a set of Delta-1 SFI 15.3 pieces, wrapped in the brand new Mickey Thompson 34.5 DOT tires that were debuted at SEMA. In fact, the set on Bailey’s car are the currently only set in existence, and were the very set on display in Las Vegas.

He’ll also run a Gear Vendors double-overdrive that he says should transfer the power adequately enough for the car to reach 300 mph.

Bailey is keeping the engine combination close to the hip for the time being, but one thing we do know is that he’ll once again be teaming with close friend Steve Morris for the power. As he told us, “it’s pretty easy to read between the lines, with what we have to do to accomplish our goals, what kind of engine setup we’ll need to have.”

A pair of matching engines that were run in Sick Seconds will be utilized in the new car, but the new bullet will be the true money-maker.

With legitimate Pro Modified racing and even the standing-mile competition on Bailey’s radar, it would seem Sick Seconds 2.0 is hardly a one-up to Larry Larson, but rather an evolution of the original that will allow Bailey to branch out beyond the annual marathon put on by Hot Rod Magazine.

“We knew two years ago after we won Drag Week that we only had two, maybe three more tenths we could get out of that car as it was, without dropping a lot of weight. But once you start tearing it apart, you quickly realize you should’ve just started from scratch with a new car that takes it as far as you can go with it.

“We have our own goals”, he continued. “It’ll be NHRA legal, and our ultimate goal is to run the NHRA Pro Modified series in 2016 with a car that you could basically drive on the street.”

In the spring, Bailey has every intention of contesting PDRA events with Sick Seconds 2.0, with testing at the track and on the street in street trim taking place between races. The Ohio Mile will then be contested in late April, with Drag Week to follow later in the season.

Bailey Racing had narrowed the paint scheme of Sick Seconds 2.0 down to a selection of five, and they’ve put the final decision to a public poll of their fans, which you can access and vote on via their Facebook page.