We are on year two of this build, and as the months click by, we’re creeping closer to making some noise with our 1971 Dodge Demon. To catch you up, we bought this car in January 2011 as a back-halved roller with a Slant Six and a stock front end. Our plan was to finish the job with a Chassisworks 2x3 front-end kit and an eBay 5.7 Hemi with a set of Comp Turbo 67mm hairdryers and a 392 stroker kit from K1 and Wiseco.
We are doing the last major parts in sections. We have the hot- and cold-side plumbing on the turbos, the wiring, the brakes, the fuel, and the trunk left on the list. The list might sound short, but it represents several more months of thrashing to get this car on the road. For this story, we prepared the trunk using some old—and new—tricks.
*CC fabricator Grant Peterson uses Falcon cutoff wheels (PN A60UB-96) because they are thin. It reduces the gap you have to fill with weld later. Parts List Description Source PN Price Remote-battery-mount cable kit Painless 40105 $281.86 Battery box Chassisworks 6401 129.00 Yellow top battery Optima 8073-167 199.99 Battery disconnect switch Summit Racing SUM-G1432 19.95 Dzus fasteners Chassisworks 8511 3.29/each Flat Dzus tab Chassisworks 2323 3.00 Fuel cell Aeromotive stealth fuel cell 18660 814.95
The last pieces of the puzzle are the battery disconnect and remote-battery cable kit. We have a complete wiring story coming up that will look at this in more detail, but for now, the concept is to run everything off the switch and nothing off the battery. That way, when the switch is flipped in an emergency, the battery and/or the alternator can’t feed the fuse box and power up the ignition or fuel pump.
