How To Make A Dodge Demon

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Not the rims that came on a Demon. Don't know what up with that. I think that was the last one built. It left there and went to Penske and was painted red. All Demons started as black or white.
 
Really cool! Did you put it on your YouTube channel?

I plan on it, but I have a lot going on right now with all that and ordering a nice new Gopro Hero 8 with accesories, and trying to watch instructional stuff about it while my oldest Son seems intent on not letting me think for 30 seconds.
It's ok though I guess, as he is in a not so good place right now and needs to talk just to keep his mind off some of the stuff he going through for awhile at a time.

I think my grandson would like watching that video on the big screen with all that robot play in it!

Mine as well would LOVE that video.
 
My favorite part was the dimensional(?) testing, the part near the beginning with the little pointer robots touching various points on the body. I wonder how they did that back in the day, checking the production dimensions... The welding robots were nuts too. I cringed though when they were putting on the front and rear "panels" and fender flares... all plastic with those stupid clips, workers just hitting them until they snapped into place ughhh. I'm curious now I want to watch a similar video but for a Toyota or Porsche lol
 
My favorite part was the dimensional(?) testing, the part near the beginning with the little pointer robots touching various points on the body. I wonder how they did that back in the day, checking the production dimensions... The welding robots were nuts too. I cringed though when they were putting on the front and rear "panels" and fender flares... all plastic with those stupid clips, workers just hitting them until they snapped into place ughhh. I'm curious now I want to watch a similar video but for a Toyota or Porsche lol
That was a CMM, I used to write programs for them before I retired, they measure the tolerances in X,Y,Z, that body was pulled off the line by the quality department for testing. I miss working with that stuff. Back in the early days bodies were bolted on a surface plate and measured by hand.
 
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That was a CMM, I used to write programs for them before I retired, they measure the tolerances in X,Y,Z, that body was pulled off the line by the quality department for testing. I miss working with that stuff. Back in the early days bodies were bolted on a surface plate and measured by hand.
CMM- Coordinate Measuring Machine, for the uninitiated. That was cool work Mitch. I did a little bit as a tool maker apprentice.
I was a tool maker at a company that did contract work for the big three. We did individual stampings (fenders, roofs, floor pans, wheel wheels, whatever) and sub assemblies (inner and outer hoods, doors, trunk lids, hatch lids, etc)
Individual panels were pit in an inspection fixture and measured with go-no go gauges, as I remember. It's been a while and I didn't work QC. We didn't assemble bodies in our plant.
Near the beginning of the video, you can see dies stamping roofs. The gray part is the die itself. (you can only see the upper, there is a matching, opposite lower below the stamping) That's what I built.
I only worked there 10 years. They were in business for 85 years and folded up basically because of the old technology they used, and resulting inefficiency. Those robots put a lot of assembly workers on the street. They did add to the skilled trades, though.
 
CMM- Coordinate Measuring Machine, for the uninitiated. That was cool work Mitch. I did a little bit as a tool maker apprentice.
I was a tool maker at a company that did contract work for the big three. We did individual stampings (fenders, roofs, floor pans, wheel wheels, whatever) and sub assemblies (inner and outer hoods, doors, trunk lids, hatch lids, etc)
Individual panels were pit in an inspection fixture and measured with go-no go gauges, as I remember. It's been a while and I didn't work QC. We didn't assemble bodies in our plant.
Near the beginning of the video, you can see dies stamping roofs. The gray part is the die itself. (you can only see the upper, there is a matching, opposite lower below the stamping) That's what I built.
I only worked there 10 years. They were in business for 85 years and folded up basically because of the old technology they used, and resulting inefficiency. Those robots put a lot of assembly workers on the street. They did add to the skilled trades, though.
That's cool, I measured all the new tooling for the company I worked for, I was in quality control, and was their Tooling tech/Lab tech. We were a supplier to Toyota, I was there 22 years.
 
Not the rims that came on a Demon. Don't know what up with that. I think that was the last one built. It left there and went to Penske and was painted red. All Demons started as black or white.

I believe the widebody cars don't fit on the assembly line with the correct wheels so they have another set of wheels until they get off the line.

That doesn't make any sense about the paint, i don't know why they wouldn't just paint them like regular challengers.
 
I saw some with blue rims in a photo of DEMONS waiting o go to Penske.
Some of the Demons with the paint chips at the scoop would a different color underneath. My car has the Graphic package but the hood was white underneath.
 
$84,000.00? No thanks, Ill pass, besides it looks like a Challenger.... for that kind of money I would want something with a little more original body style. No way in hell anybody is going to confuse a 72 Challenger for a 72 Demon...
 
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