6.1 Hemi into 72 Demon March 2018
So I skipped last weekend and attended the National Mopar show Mopars in the Park it is a huge show and well attended. It is located south of Minneapolis about an hour. Weather was terrible but there was a whole posse there from FABO. I got going on the Demon again as I was out of money, patience and overall enthusiasm as a result of some roadblocks. I finally ended up with a oil pan I can use with tubular K frame. Huge shout out to Denny and his crew at HDK. Whether you like his product or not one thing is for certain, his integrity and all around good guy rep is unquestionable. I will not go into details but suffice to say HDK bailed me out from a poor vendor choice. I included pix with the part numbers on the pan, as it is a new version and may not be readily available yet. It is a full 1.5 inches shorter than the normal pan used in this conversion. I took a close up of the number inscribed in the pan. You will also need a different pickup as then 6.1 Challenger has a front pickup and that is just plain in the way. I also started to "clock" the rack and pinion. Please note I am a farmer not a mechanic so I am sure there are better ways to do it. What I did was rotate it all the way to stop then mark the shaft creating a TDC if you will. Then I marked the housing in quarters. I then simply rotated steering the other way until stop and counted the revolutions. Divided that number by 1/2 then rotated the steering back that amount to create a centerline if you will so that I can start hanging steering parts on it and it is centered in theory. Again the actual mechanics out there likely have a easy graceful way to do it? One item of note the Milodon oil pan sucked in a bit from the welding (aprox1/8) I just gave it a little hammer love to take it back straight, if you don't get the side rails straight you will fight bolting it up.
