Making progress on my Demon

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Demonx2 said:
Your whole car looks fantastic! I like the gauges but I cannot get used to a 10,000 rpm "sideways" tach. Guess it's my age...
For me, a tach should have 0 at about 7:30 and 8000 rpm around 4:30. I don't have any motors that go to 10,000 rpm and the idle should not be pointing straight down. What can I say - I grew up on Sun Super-Tach 2's!! I like the shift light and memory and all, just not the 10k scaling and positioning. Oh well, I'm also the one that still thinks racing is to be done with a footbrake only car!! Put the driver back into the race!!
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I'm a bottom bulb racer myself.
 
Demonx2 said:
You are sure correct - the lighting is below par for an AutoMeter gauge. Gauge lighting may be a winter project for me as none of mine are great.
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I had good luck just swapping out the bulbs in mine for LED bulbs.

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Demonx2 said:
Your whole car looks fantastic! I like the gauges but I cannot get used to a 10,000 rpm "sideways" tach. Guess it's my age...
For me, a tach should have 0 at about 7:30 and 8000 rpm around 4:30. I don't have any motors that go to 10,000 rpm and the idle should not be pointing straight down. What can I say - I grew up on Sun Super-Tach 2's!! I like the shift light and memory and all, just not the 10k scaling and positioning. Oh well, I'm also the one that still thinks racing is to be done with a footbrake only car!! Put the driver back into the race!!
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I'm 66 and that would have been fine for my drag car. Leave at 8000 rpm and change gears at 8000 (straight up).
At our long closed local Hudson, NC track was about 4 miles from Don Carlton's garage. We could stand about 5 feet from the cars at the starting line. His tach was a 360* 10,000rpm starting with 0 at the top and 10,000 would be all the way around back to 0. When he was match racing, he would be staged with the tach needle bouncing a little above 0 and as soon as both stage lights came on, the needle would swing almost instantly making the full circle back to 0 (10,000 rpm). The local guys called that "watch Don dial the operator".

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It just wouldn't be the same car without the A bodies sticker. lol
 
Nice car and build but all the hassle of the 2" headers for fear of powerloss only to be a show queen?
 
71DodgeDemon340 said:
Need to get you down to the mainstreet cruise in
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I built a plant in Clevland and spent the better part of a year there and had no idea they had a Mopar show? Arghh….By same token the only thing I saw was the inside of my welding hood and the Perkins restaurant at bottom of hill from my hotel!
 
ultimatejay said:
Nice car and build but all the hassle of the 2" headers for fear of powerloss only to be a show queen?
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I don't remember anywhere in my post's referring to this car being a "show queen" when in fact it's my drag car that I did a complete restoration on and will be raced frequently. If there is a cruise in or a car show near where I live I take it to them.
 
Sublime one said:
I built a plant in Clevland and spent the better part of a year there and had no idea they had a Mopar show? Arghh….By same token the only thing I saw was the inside of my welding hood and the Perkins restaurant at bottom of hill from my hotel!
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Which plant?
 
SuperStock426 said:
I don't remember anywhere in my post's referring to this car being a "show queen" when in fact it's my drag car that I did a complete restoration on and will be raced frequently. If there is a cruise in or a car show near where I live I take it to them.
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Lets see some drag strip vids and timeslips.
 
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