Something awesome I never knew existed.

Bonus! Was he wearing a Don Garlits t-shirt?

I'd LOVE to have a small air raid siren to mount under my truck. It'd be a ball to throw the switch when stuck at a light when next to boom-rattle-boom-rattle thug than insists on drowning out what everyone else is listening to with their shite.
 
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very neat video
but, and I'll get crucified for saying this - but V8 with only 180hp?
Man has tech come a long way!
 
very neat video
but, and I'll get crucified for saying this - but V8 with only 180hp?
Man has tech come a long way!

Everything has evolved except Harleys:)

I don’t know how true this is but I remember reading that a new calculator has more computing power than the Apollo 13 had.
 
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Everything has evolved except Harleys:)

I don’t know how true this is but I remember reading that a new calculator has more computing power than the Apollo 13 had.
You know Im a HD fan...but it pisses me off that they have had the 'tech' for a long time to make some dang power and they choose not to. The Buells (where my heart is) were putting out over 100hp in a 1200cc evo engine for well over a decade before a factory sportster started to break the 3-digit mark. Why hold back? Oh, I know...

Same for the watercooled engines they had 15 years ago, put them in more things/chassis and see what happens

Anyway, sorry to get OT
 
very neat video
but, and I'll get crucified for saying this - but V8 with only 180hp?
Man has tech come a long way!
Ten years later Garlits was making near ten times that horsepower with the same engine.
 
Ten years later Garlits was making near ten times that horsepower with the same engine.
I know it's likely a MUCH different motor and nitro fuel, but 1600+ hp in the 70s? Nuts
 
I know it's likely a MUCH different motor and nitro fuel, but 1600+ hp in the 70s? Nuts
By 1955 that motor was pumping out 300 horses in a production car and the next year the motor was the first to make one horsepower per cubic inch as a production motor; 355 horses from 354 cubic inches, nearly double the horsepower of the siren motor.
 
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By 1955 that motor was pumping out 300 horses in a production car and the next year the motor was the first to make one horsepower per cubic inch as a production motor; 355 horses from 354 cubic inches, nearly double the horsepower of the siren motor.
ok
So, he was making 1600+ by the mid 60s? Again, that's nuts
 
Those things are awesome, buddy of mine has one from an old firestation here in town that was torn down. Dunno if they still do it everywhere but here they fire the warning sirens off on Saturdays at noon. None of the ones here anymore are the old engine driven ones, they're all either the cone shaped ones or the ones that look like stacks of megaphones in all directions.
 
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