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Re: build a powerful siren

>The Chrysler Air Raid Siren used a 180 hp V-8 Hemi engine

>>to drive the siren and weighed 5543 lb" >>

Phil Hobbs wrote:

Wow, that's one seriously detuned Hemi. >The good ones made more like 500 HP. >

You're assuming that they were all 426s. They made them as small as 241cid.

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I looked it up, and you're right, it was a 331. Still, it was OHV, you'd think they could get more than that out of it.

On the other hand, this was 1951.

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Phil Hobbs

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