Mystery Sticker on a 340 valve cover

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Friend of mine picked up a 1972 340 Duster. On the valve cover is this sticker. Anyone ever see this before?

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Saw this sticker on a 72 Sattelite 4 door 318. Nothing special either about the car or sticker.
 
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Friend of mine picked up a 1972 340 Duster. On the valve cover is this sticker. Anyone ever see this before?

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I have not. Maybe @krazykuda Karl has.


That is puzzling... There are not that many electronics on the engine to be tested in the first place...

You would have to ask someone who worked at the Mound Road Engine Plant back then...


I know for the slant 6 and big block they used to hot test them on a dyno at the end of the assembly line... They would give them a quick fire and run them shortly before shipping them...

(Rumor had it that if 'someone' installed the distributor 'a little advanced' on the 440 6 packs, they would shoot flames out the center carb halfway to the roof....)
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So if they hot tested them at Mound Road, that would prove that they ran before they were shipped... (Verified good....)


Why would they need to do another electronic test??? Unless there was a periodic electronic audit that only a few 'chosen ones' were tested as a random sample...
 
I am sure it was for the first runs of Electronis ignition engines ..
Since 72 was a mixture of points and first year electronic distributors, I was thinking the same thing. And Mark, in the 47 years since this car was built, someone could have put the points distributor in it. Look at the wiring harness, see if you see the two prong distributor plug or the ECU plug pigtail under the hood.
 
Since 72 was a mixture of points and first year electronic distributors, I was thinking the same thing. And Mark, in the 47 years since this car was built, someone could have put the points distributor in it. Look at the wiring harness, see if you see the two prong distributor plug or the ECU plug pigtail under the hood.


'72 was not the first year for electronic ignition, May built '71 340's have that distinction.
 
Seems like 72 models were known to have this sticker. I guess since electronic ignition was new to the game.
 
Sticker seems to refer to a method of testing the engine. It may have nothing to do with the ignition or votlage regulation.
 
Sticker seems to refer to a method of testing the engine. It may have nothing to do with the ignition or votlage regulation.
Sticker says it passed a " Special electronic quality Test" Only other thing you could test is the alternator or coil and points?
 
Sticker says it passed a " Special electronic quality Test" Only other thing you could test is the alternator or coil and points?
All I'm suggesting is to consider the whole sticker. I read "it" as the engine. Especially with the larger font and all caps.
THIS
ENGINE HAS PASSED
a
SPECIAL ELECTRONIC QUALITY CHECK

So I'm open to the possibility that some sort of electronic machine was used for whatever they tested. It could have been compression that had a go/no go signal or maybe even recorded the pressures. Or, maybe they test ran the engine and had an osilliscope on it.

Lots of possibilites that's for sure.

 
How did a pretty common sticker become a mystery?
Mystery to who?
 
How did a pretty common sticker become a mystery?
Mystery to who?

Just because it's common, doesn't "not" mean it's a mystery. Do YOU know what it means EXACTLY? I didn't think so. So.....there's the mystery.
 
How did a pretty common sticker become a mystery?
Mystery to who?
It's just conversation, I'm 64 and been devoted to Mopar since I bought my first new 70 340 Duster. I been around and never seen one! RRR has been around and never seen one! Why does this bother you so? Opt out and it won't bother you in the future
 
Maybe by that time much of the engine testing equipment was electronic so it gave them the excuse to put that sticker on the engine? Maybe for "customer relations"? Just a guess...
 
It's a sales tactic from an era where Chrysler qc was beyond its typically abysmal level.
 
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