The reality television program “Street Outlaws” first landed on the small screen a decade ago, featuring semi-stock-appearing, more street-style machines that viewers instantly connected with. While the show drifted away into the realm of all-out race machinery in the years that followed, the franchise has recently gravitated back to its early DNA, with a style of road-going vehicle its longtime fans and gearheads can better relate to. This was evident in the series’ most recent season of the O.G. show, where the stars of Oklahoma City’s “405” jumped into a whole new crop of muscle cars to take on all-comers in real-deal street machines.

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Ryan Martin, one of the show’s leading stars, just wrapped up a new drivetrain upgrade on his own 1969 Camaro, which he plans to use on the show and potentially even at drag-and-drive events in the future.

According to Martin’s nearly-as-famous sidekick Javier Canales, Martin picked up the Camaro about two years ago and it was already built up as a street/strip car with a big-block Chevy engine on nitrous oxide. They have since changed that combination up and turned the F-body into exactly what Martin envisioned.

Under the hood now is an LME-built LSX powerplant that started with a Next-Gen block. Measuring well over 400 cubic inches in displacement, the small-block is boosted by a pair of Precision Turbo mirror image turbochargers with TurboSmart electronic wastegates and no intercooler, thanks to the use of E85 fuel. Stainless Works supplied the hot side tubing, while RK Racecraft handled much of the cold side fabrication.

In order to cruise for miles on end, be it on the TV show or at a drag-and-drive event, the Camaro employs a big Be Cool radiator to keep the water temperatures chill during the cruises, and an M&M Transmissions Turbo 400 transmission and torque converter work with a Gear Vendors overdrive and Dynamic Driveline carbon-fiber driveshaft to keep the engine RPM at a manageable level on the highway.

Managing the engine operation is a FuelTech FT600 EFI system that Martin tunes himself, and it directs the FuelTech FT Spark and FuelTech ignition coils, as well as the FuelTech 550 lb/hr fuel injectors fueled by an Aeromotive brushless fuel pump.

Suspension-wise, the Camaro has been fitted with a Smith Racecraft bolt-on, tubular front end with Ron G Afterworks shocks up front and out back, where a set of Calvert Racing leaf springs work with Caltrac bars and a Quick Performance 9-inch rearend to transfer power to the ground.

Homier Fabrications performed all of the wiring on the car, and RK Racecraft painted the front end in matching Champagne after Martin added the Glasstek carbon-fiber cowl induction hood.

Inside, the Camaro has a restored, largely stock-appearing interior featuring TMI products and a Dakota Digital instrument cluster, while on the outside, Weld wheels and Wilwood disc brakes have been bolted up.

Canales told us that they will be back on FuelTech’s hub dyno next week for more tuning, and are expecting to see the turbocharged LSX engine to deliver around 1,800-1,900 horsepower.

“This is his vision/dream of a drag-and-drive car,” Canales told us. “He wants to do some of those events when time allows, and we are trying to be prepared for when we film the OG show later this fall in case they decide to film these street cars again.”