Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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And now is the biggest project I've ever undertaken. A buddy handed me an old 5.9L Magnum 1998 long block for free. Over the last eight months, I've been rebuilding it into a torque monster with all-new parts from Speed Pro, Sealed Power, Clevite, Edelbrock, Holley, Milodon, and Racing Head Service. July 08 - back from machine shop (.030 over, dipped, and reassembled short block): September 08 - short block painted: February 09 - Dampner, heads, pulleys, distributor mounted: March 09 - almost there (Edelbrock intake, Holley carb mounted):
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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Boy there sure don't come much cleaner than that, heck a light color sand and a good buff job and I bet that paint would even gleam!
Not anymore. It's a fifty-foot car for sure. The interior looks like hell, too.
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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Your very lucky! What a solid car to start with, just think of all the time you don't have to pour into the body......more time and money for the goodies!
It turns out that half of it's mud. The other half may be steel, but I'm not sure. A magnet won't stick to about 80% of the passenger quarter.
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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I would give ya a hand this weekend, but I'm in Spain till the end of the month. Don't know if my bro will see your post and jump in. Good Luck. BTW, what ya do with the slant?
I gave it away for free to Red on slantsix.org.
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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A couple weeks ago, someone from slantsix.org gladly took my old slant and trans out of the Demon. Within the last two weeks, I started work on the engine bay. I cleaned and repainted with a custom-mixed metallic spray from Jerry's Paints in Sacramento, CA. For the $14/can, it was great. It's a little more glossy than stock, but color-matches perfectly. I painted the k-member and suspension pieces with Rustoleum Rust-Tough semi-flat black paint. Then I began rewiring the bay. A lot of the wiring was corroded or just looked bad, so I cut and re-soldered a few wires to make it look good. I also, thanks to MowP4rsn's help, I got a new battery tray from E-Body Ed to replace my corroded tray. Since I am using an electronic speedometer, I decided to rewire my original setup (through the speedometer grommet) to the bulkhead plug. Other than not being able to find the right female terminals, it went alright, and now I don't have wires where they shouldn't be.
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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Looks like your making some real progress Brian. I know your excited. Keep the pics coming and keep at it. Joe
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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Wow, I thought I updated this more often. I got the engine fired up, and drove around the block a couple times on open headers. Engine runs like a top. I installed the Summit 2.5" exhaust kit, and the mufflers from the kit actually make it sound really good. Maybe I'll make a sound byte this week. I had some trouble with my RPMs. Got a whole bunch of ideas from Moparts members - kickdown, torque converter slipping, bad third gear, etc. It turned out that the tach was on the wrong tach setting (for four cylinders), and was showing about double RPM Because I didn't figure this out until AFTER I got home from Baconfest and Mopar Alley, I left the Demon at home this weekend and took the Mini to the shows. I missed my deadline of having it ready for Baconfest 09, but at least it turned out the transmission is alright Anyway, I hope to get some pictures and video this week for y'all.
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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Good to see you're still plugging away on it. Glad to see you didn't sell it. Keep up the good work.
I'm also glad I didn't sell it.
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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Good to see you're still plugging away on it. Glad to see you didn't sell it. Keep up the good work.
I'm also glad I didn't sell it.
I think everyone feels the way you did at some point during a long project.
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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Hmmph, I should have updated this earlier... I did end up getting nice BBP steelies for the front, thanks to a FABO moderator, GTXperience. Later, I found a '74 dual-snorkel air cleaner at a swap meet, and decided it'd be the perfect candidate for a feaux-'71 340 air cleaner: I also purchased a BBP 8.75" rear from a 68 Coronet. It's a 2.94:1 742 open case. Should hold me plenty, for now. I kept the 10x2.5" drums in the rear, but rebuilt them. nothing much else was wrong on the axle except for the brake lines, so I just threw it back together with a coat of brushed-on Rustoleum satin black Upcoming, I will be pulling the entire drivetrain, installing a Firm Feel or Steer and Gear power box, rebuilding the torqueflite (leaky seals), and painting the motor orange. This should all happen before April or May.
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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Good to see you're still plugging away on it. Glad to see you didn't sell it. Keep up the good work.
I'm also glad I didn't sell it.
I think everyone feels the way you did at some point during a long project.
I still feel like I will never get mine done!!!
Keep up the great work Sharpie
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Re: Sharpie's 1971 Demon
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That's cool about the iPod. I haven't messed with Stereo stuff in a while and I thought about doing something similar in my Challenger. Thought about hiding an amp and rigging an iPod to it but when I talked to some of the stereo guys at Best Buy they said it wasn't possible. Didn't seem that big of a deal to me. What amp did you use and how did you connect it?
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