4 speed at the strip

Please get yourself a scattersheild. !!!!
I own several demon 340's and three of them are factory 340 4 speeds.
I used to street race now and then and had the luck of not looseing a foot, BUT then I went to the track and had slicks and read the rule book and knew I needed the blowproof bellhousing and so we got one and put it on the car..

Its One of the first things they look for when you go thru tech! ( even if you only have sticky street tires)

I then raced my brown GSS 71' demon 340 4 speed for two seasons and had the clutch come apart at bandimere speedway when I lived in colorado. back in 1983.

It was running the complete Hay's clutch settup and flywheel and the only thing left was the lakewood scattersheild and input shaft/throwout bearing. when it failed...
I had no indication it was going to go at all.. beforehand.
In fact when it broke, I thought I had broken a driveshaft instead.
Please use the block plate too !!!!
I coasted to the side and shut it off and got towed back to my pit spot.
My girlfriend and I loaded it back on the trailer and took it home and on that monday we tore it apart.

I was being partially sponcered by Foothills Chrylser Dodge & Plymouth in Ft Collins, Colorado,, and when we took it apart in their service department the flywheel was broken in two, and we had to out a entire new settup in it.

Times where consistant 12.48's ( Mile High elevation) and I was shifting it at 6800.
Complete interior and stock body with only 5 13 gears, open headers on it and a crower camshaft, trw 12.5 to 1's, otherwise stock demon 340 with snubber and still running the small bolt pattern 5 on 4" wheels with only 28" tall x9.00 x 14" et slicks at the time it happened.
And changing clutch discs about once a month only before it went.

The disc disintigrated and all the springs and pieces of the pressure plate was a mess of broken chunks!
I had a scattersheild and block plate as it IS REQUIRED when running slicks and a 4 speed!
I am sure that a stock clutch would have only made it worse.

The clutch peices stayed inside the bellhousing and the largest would only barely cover my palm. If I had only a stock bellhousing I surely would have been hurting!
A factory alumiinum bellhousing would have just added more scrapnel to the equasion...

I respectively ask you to find a way to get a scattersheild and use it, EVEN on the street if you are going to race it.
If not, Then you are on borrowed time racing it... Even on street tires

Grant Eaton ( Demon340GSS on moparts,ebay, etc)
1 407-947-9005
Eaton Gear Corp/ Champion Steel