Demon and Dart Sport Scoop Location

DartSportDude said
7demon2:

Thanks for posting the latest photos. I did not see them before posting my most recent message. A couple of observations:

- On the 71 Swinger hood, the locations for the clean air holes are accompanied by small cut outs in the hood support structure to provide extra room for the holes. This is not the case on the 72 hood where the holes are installed below the snorkel scoop. Again, that makes me wonder if the clean air holes were ever really intended for use with the snorkel scoop on the later models.

- As I mentioned in my earlier message, the scoop and stripe on my 73 Dart Sport 340 were added by a Dodge Dealer in 1976. Both the scoop and stripe kit were original, OEM Mopar products purchased from the dealer's own parts department. While the scoop/stripe were not originally installed on my car at the factory, they were a standard option for this model and year.

can you account for the clean air holes being installed on the car from the time it arrived at the original dealer? In many cases, these performance add-ons were installed at the dealership prior to sale to the customer -- but were not factory installed.

-i guess we need a definitive factory description of the "Performance Hood Package" offered on 72 and 73 Demon/Dart 340s to be sure the clean air holes were part of the package -- and not just the scoop and stripe kit.

It sounds like you've got some factory literature that might help answer these questions. Thanks again!

really i think you are reading too much into this. i am not the original owner of my demon , but i have spoken to all of the owners. including the original owner, so i know it's complete history. i know it has never been wrecked. i also know this is it's original sheet metal, and hood. again chrysler had intendet to have a cold air package available from the factory. they also had a 6 pack setup intended for it as well. these things never made it into production, but chrysler did do the holes on the hp cars w/ the 340's. the mounting locations for both scoops can be seen in both pics as the hoods are interchangeable to be used on both /6, 318, and 340 if need to be. the scoop package was an option for all of these cars w/ the 340's. if you opted for the scoop you got the holes. if you didn't then you got a solid hood. if you have a scoop w/ no holes then it was added at some point plain and simple. i have information to account for this but cannot lay my hands on it for the moment......again i will not post anything reguarding tech information that is not 100% accurate. 70-76 a bodies i know very well. i get the chance to speak to, and ask questions from galen govier every year here in the spring at the mopar madness show held here at va. motorsports park. this has been very helpful to clear up some things that i too have been wondering about. in the first issue of mopar enthusist, there was an article there on a untouched 72 demon 340. check it out and look at the hood.........lastly without the holes being there there would be a considerible amount of air going into the scoop with no place for it to go. this could cause the fiberglass scoop in higher speeds to crack and possibly break off the car. i don't think the manufacture would want the liability for that. they could have sealed the scoop up and not worried about it but they didn't.....