CLASS RACER FORUM - View Single Post

Greg Reimer 7376 · 07-05-2011, 06:07 PM

When I was younger, the county maintained the air raid sirens. They had an air raid siren test at 10.00 AM on the last Friday of the month. The air raid siren consisted of a large air horn attaached to a blower that was turned by- get this- an early iron Chrysler Hemi- a 331 or a 354. They had a governor that let the engine idle, then pulled it up to about 3000 or 3500 against the siren, then closed the throttle and let it coast down,only to repeat the process. When I worked for Los Angeles County Mechanical Department from 1980-86, we still had a few of those siren assemblies around, and they were still tested monthly. They looked just like the red blower assembly in the photo. In fact, that's what made me think of them. Wonder what happened to all the hemi parts?

07-05-2011, 06:07 PM	#9
Greg Reimer 7376 VIP Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Glendora,Calif. Posts: 1,136 Likes: 172 Liked 705 Times in 219 Posts	Re: 2012 Drag Pak 426 Hemi ? When I was younger, the county maintained the air raid sirens. They had an air raid siren test at 10.00 AM on the last Friday of the month. The air raid siren consisted of a large air horn attaached to a blower that was turned by- get this- an early iron Chrysler Hemi- a 331 or a 354. They had a governor that let the engine idle, then pulled it up to about 3000 or 3500 against the siren, then closed the throttle and let it coast down,only to repeat the process. When I worked for Los Angeles County Mechanical Department from 1980-86, we still had a few of those siren assemblies around, and they were still tested monthly. They looked just like the red blower assembly in the photo. In fact, that's what made me think of them. Wonder what happened to all the hemi parts?