Recent content by demonjim

I may catch flack for this, but in my opinion, a 7 year old should not be driving a race car down the drag strip. They barely can ride a bicycle at that age. Try to imagine the guilt the parents must be feeling. Just my opinion,

Yeah, I think they came from the factory with automatic transmission fluid in them. Seems like the reason was for easier shifting.

My wife's cousin lives in Houston, called Thursday evening telling us they had 4" inches.

I was noticing that as well.

I missed that when I first looked at the pictures, but when I read your post, I went back and looked again, turned my computer sideways, and sure enough the last numbers are 340-3. That was a steal.

Thanks for the picture. Shows just what I was saying about the location.

The control unit for that car mounts on the inner fender on the driver's side. As a owner of a 72 Demon, I know.

That's a possibility. After making the number of parts these dies stamp out, the punches need to be replaced, die blocks need to be resurfaced, then shimmed back to the original height. it ain't cheap making these stamped parts. I went years ago to the AMD center in Georgia to pick up a quarter...

As someone who worked in a metal stamping job for 20 years, I can tell you that the cost of stamping parts ain't cheap. Depending on the size of the press, features, they can run from $250,000 to nearly a $1,000,000, or more. Then you have the cost of the dies necessary to make the part, again...

A very tech savvy guy. I would always read his posts on here. A lot of knowledge gone. May God comfort his family.

It's been a long time ago, but in the early 70's, I remember seeing some cars with 340 MAGNUM on the hood. I don't remember which body styles they were, but there were some that had that badge on the hood. I want to say either Dusters or Demons, don't recall seeing it on other body types.

I have a 1972 Demon 340, 3 speed from the factory. I'm the only owner the car has ever had. I've always had a vision for it, through the years the vision has changed some, but I have never lost interest. Now at 71 years old, I have finally come to the realization that it's never gonna happen...

Yeah, I thought that the hemi's were destroked, but didn't want to put something on here that I wasn't sure of. Same with the Fords, I thought they were running Cleveland's. I don't think I knew the Chevy's were running 331's, which I'm guessing were 350's that were destroked.

Been that way forever. Ford and Chevy have had favorable rules as long as I can remember. Pro Stock has always been my favorite class, and all one has to do is go back to the 70's to see the absolute sellout to them. Mopar guys were running Dusters and Demons with Hemi's while the Chevy guys...

In 1972, when I bought the car, the dealership thought it was leaking around the windshield. They checked every time I took it in and resealed it but that didn't fix it. Shumacher has the wiper seal kits to fix the problem, not very hard to replace them.