Why Americans Made A 5.4L V8 Siren
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The loudest and most powerful siren ever made was manufactured in the United States of America. Powered by a Chrysler V8, it produced noise of 138 dB thanks to a 180 hp engine.
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Fuel consumption: decibel per liter/gallon
@AnDrEw122100
2 жыл бұрын
😆
@lolheads579r
2 жыл бұрын
😂
@Flies2FLL
2 жыл бұрын
Chrysler is working on a Cummins diesel version that is uses 30% less fuel per decibel....
@KingBanter
2 жыл бұрын
Like Harleys
@AnDrEw122100
2 жыл бұрын
@@KingBanter bahaha dead .
Dodge be like: Let's hellcat swap it
@WilliamHollinger2019
2 жыл бұрын
know what yeah if anyone will get v8 powered siren i would find an helliphent engine and swap it and see how loud it can get.
@THEGREATMEMEWIZARD
2 жыл бұрын
@@WilliamHollinger2019 Ah, so you have chosen deaf.
@apolloxlix679
2 жыл бұрын
@@THEGREATMEMEWIZARD lmao
@trae3290
2 жыл бұрын
Puts a fucking supercharger on it.
@joshuadebideen22
2 жыл бұрын
That supercharger would whine like a siren...
A fuel to noise converter. An intentional this time.
@ethan12313
2 жыл бұрын
Lool that's called a 2 stroke Detroit diesel
@haukesattler446
2 жыл бұрын
@@ethan12313 Those are not intentional.
@kleetus92
2 жыл бұрын
@@haukesattler446 If they powered it with a detroit diesel, it wouldn't make any noise, they would cancel each other out and be completely silent! LOL
It literally turned fog into rain?! That’s freakin incredible. Great video.
@CreatorCade
2 жыл бұрын
What really?! That’s incredible I didn’t know that.
@ethansmith9065
2 жыл бұрын
@@CreatorCade the sound waves jostle the droplets and they converge until they're too heavy and fall. Amazing to think about. Wish there was a way to see it irl
@jcb19
2 жыл бұрын
They were some reeeally powerful sirens. Unsurprisingly, standing in front of the horns can kill a person from the shockwave.
@Sipex6484
2 жыл бұрын
@@jcb19 I don't believe so, didn't edaan stand in front of this siren?
@Superluck77Lol
2 жыл бұрын
@@Sipex6484 probably not at full power.
I quote " There isn't a thing an American man cannot build with a v8 attached to it." Understatement if the Millennia. Jokes apart, Thanks bro, I was already into cars and now you are turning me into a engine freak. 😂❤
@davonmulder8458
2 жыл бұрын
Same
@txrick4879
2 жыл бұрын
I saw a video of a guy that put one on a riding mower . So absolutely correct .
"Why Americans made a 5.4L V8 siren" *WHY NOT?* Thanks Visio! Never knew this thing even existed :)
Rumor has it, you could still hear the hemi tick over the horn.
Where I live in south east England, there are still air raid sirens in use and tested regularly, which were from WW2, and it’s a very sobering sound when you hear them. Of corse, we know they’re only being tested, but still it puts shivers down your spine. Interesting different video VR! Top work as always bro
@mannys9130
2 жыл бұрын
I am terrified of tornadoes. My friend lives in tornado alley here in the USA. I visited him one summer for the first time. While he was in the shower and I was still in a Twilight half-awake state, the god damn tornado sirens started going off outside. I freaked out for like 20 seconds until I was outside and could see that there was nothing but clear weather all around us. He got out of the shower and I said "THE SIRENS?!?!" He just laughed and said "Oh yeah, it's the 3rd Wednesday of the month. That's when they test them." Spookiest thing that had happened to me in a long time. 🤣
@mayuravirus6134
2 жыл бұрын
At least its not Stuka Siren
@StefanJovanovski
2 жыл бұрын
We do the same in Slovenia too. Every first saturday of the month at noon, all the sirens are being tested for a minute or so.
@onelyone6976
2 жыл бұрын
Similar here in Finland, they’re tested at the first monday every month at about 9 am
@gittyupalice96
2 жыл бұрын
we use them to tell the time here lol. People that move to the area, usually have a significant emotional event shortly there after.
Dispersal of Fog - wow. That was unexpected. Great content 👍
@exothermal.sprocket
2 жыл бұрын
Soundwaves to condense fog. That's only a tiny fraction of what's been done. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHyTtc2mXbLRitY.html
@grahamnutt8958
2 жыл бұрын
@@exothermal.sprocket I have saved the video to watch later. Thanks for posting the link 👍
I have always been intrigued by air-raid sirens, but a two ton hemi and horn spinning around on a roof top!? That's just awesome!
I was nodding and going "Oh that's cool" while the video was being explained, somehow Visio finds the most interesting stuff to share with us. Very intellectual up to that point, but that sound clip at the end? Chills and goosebumps as the siren revved up.
@THEGREATMEMEWIZARD
2 жыл бұрын
Check out this version: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e3WBy7afg7idiqQ.html
We had one at Cerro Negro, a peak North of Glendale, California. Once a month on a Thursday at 11AM the air raid system was tested. Our local electric powered one would sound off then quit. But 25KM away, the Chrysler Bell was still running. It was a scary haunted sound. The unit is still up there inside a fenced off area. It was on a turntable that rotated slowly while the siren was engaged. When the manufacturer first built the hemi version, it was tested inside a wooden building. I read where the sound pressure was so high that it set fire to parts of the wooden walls.
V8 is the solution for everything! 🤣
I have wanted one of these since I was a kid, such an awesome machine.
Awesome! That sort of decibel level is physically dangerous~
They used a lot of Chrysler/Dodge motors if I remember correctly. My neighborhood had a HUGE air-raid siren in a corner of a hilltop ballfield, on Arlington Ave. and Sterling Street, in Mt. Oliver, Pittsburgh. It had a 'base building', then a large open metal frame going up about 4 floors. Then there was a walk-around platform with the sirens (and their big V8 in a housing) mounted on it. Everything was painted a uniform grey, it looked like it belonged on a military airbase. The horns were about 8ft. long and opened to about 4ft. I researched this and saw lots of variations in size on the basic design, but most used multiple rectangular horns. We used to play ball on the field in whose corner it sat, and I would often stare upwards at it, like standing beneath a sleeping dragon, remembering how loud that thing was when it was lit off. From that hilltop, it overlooked the mills on the South Side (pronounced 'SahSide') and the southern side of "The Golden Triangle". But because of the 'lay of the land' it could be heard for miles, even north of downtown (prounced 'dahntahn'). Every Monday morning at (I think) 7am, they would fire that thing up and the sound was incredible. My house was further down on the hill but only about 200 yards away. The sound could be FELT! I was born in '56, so this is late-fifties here. Then they dismantled it sometime in the late 60s. History.
@ThunderboltSirenStudios
28 күн бұрын
If this is the 50's you are probably talking about the thunderbolt Siren. It was known for being loud and having a big horn. Though the siren mechanism is small, the roots blower pumps air to the siren mechanism, making it loud.
Another VisioRacer win for crazy engine powered things I never knew existed! Awesome!
Where i live we have an old air raid siren on top of the oldest building in town. They test it every few years.
@rustyjeep2469
2 жыл бұрын
That's awesome they still use it!
@crazycoffee
2 жыл бұрын
@@rustyjeep2469 I dont know if its a crystler one but its some old engine one.
@craigmclean8260
2 жыл бұрын
There were a few other engine-powered sirens tested then; I don't know how many made it into production. One used a Ford flathead V-8 to run the blower, and a 20 HP Wisconsin to run the chopper assembly; yet another was an odd duck; it used the exhaust gas from a Chrysler flathead six as the pressure source, and some kind of electric motor drive for the chopper.
I've seen 1 of these before but I love hearing the motor rev up and the sirens overpower the motor
This must be one of the most 'murican thing I've ever seen...
I remember seeing one of these on Ebay when I was maybe 15. I was smitten from then on. Cheers on another great video, Visio!
Americans response for sirens: V8 Americans response for fuel consumption: diesel V8
Very nice informational video! It's nice that you used a clip of my video too lol! The one I recorded is from Rochester New York and was installed in 1955. There used to be two of them but the second one was removed a long time ago, My guess is that it was on the city hall. They were put in because Rochester had a TON of big companies there back then, Including Sterling which is another siren manufacturer from the 20th century!
You know someone's looking at this and thinking "Hellcat swap."
@trezapoioiuy
2 жыл бұрын
Turbine is the way to go
Supercharged Hellcat swap: adds up more km's of range thus giving 100 more decibels and higher pitch from the blower
Clarkson took this to the next level with the V8 powered kitchen food blender and the V8 powered rocking chair.
@MrJJandJim
2 жыл бұрын
Great inventions, to be sure! But have you seen Colin Furze's JET-POWERED KETTLE?
Years ago when working for an auto electric shop I had the opportunity to restore a 12-volt siren. It was probably installed on a fire engine. This one had been posted on a building, assumedly a fire station. After I restored it, and hooked the jumper cables to a car battery, it almost blew out my eardrums. It is a gorgeous thing, with a big Chrome horn. The owners didn't want to pay the bill, so I inherited it. I hope to put it on eBay someday, someone who is restoring a fire engine from the 40s or 50s needs this siren!
I really like these documentary style videos about one particular subject. I’d love to see more of them sprinkled in with your bread and butter.
@VisioRacer
2 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear that, mate
@uzaiyaro
2 жыл бұрын
@@VisioRacer happy to comment! I wonder if maybe you’d be willing to remaster some of your older text videos, because I love watching videos that I can just listen to while I do some work, and I think they’d benefit greatly from your voiceover! In any case, I really enjoy this channel, and you’ve taught me and so many others so much random interesting shit that I never would’ve found otherwise. Great work!
@VisioRacer
2 жыл бұрын
@@uzaiyaro Thanks a lot!
The Chrysler sirens were the loudest sirens ever made on record. It's scary to think that they produce so much sound pressure out of the front of them that legend has it that grass can actually catch fire if it's right in front of it. The second loudest siren produced is electric and is powered by a 50 horsepower electric motor. Multiple examples of this electric siren are still up and running
Ah yes converting fuel to sound. Just like a Harley
It’s main use was tornado siren as well. Still used in some small towns in the southern states.
Great content as always, Visio Racer, KZread's tide rises when you post, my friend.
"There isn't a thing that an American man could not make work with a v8 hooked up to it" dude you could not have been more true 🤣
Excellent video!! This was really entertaining to watch!
This has Jeremy Carlkson written all over it lol
@craigmclean8260
2 жыл бұрын
Yep; he should be able to bellow "POWER!!!" over the 138 dB of this thing!
@robertjackson8728
2 жыл бұрын
@@craigmclean8260 I think he did make a V8 powered blender on Top Gear.
hi viso thx for the vids the last few seconds of this vid spooked my cat shes under the table looking worried lolol
@ddt0889
2 жыл бұрын
My cat didn't like the sound either!😾🤣 Great video though.👍🏼
@craigmclean8260
2 жыл бұрын
When our town did its once-monthly storm siren test this last Wednesday, the low howl of the 8-port Sentry sirens they use here got both our cats extremely nervous!
The pool hall in dawsonville needs one of these for when Chase Elliott wins a race
At the time the loudest electric driven siren was the federal signal thunderbolt , capable of only 130 decibels at 100 feet, it used a 1 horsepower electric motor to spin the chopper and a 20 horsepower electric motor to drive a Roots blower which fed directly to the chopper
I wouldn’t get too excited it was a hemi. Tiny 2 bbl carb for probably 150 hp, if that. Remember, this was an industrial engine, not hi-po!
Awsome vid, thanks!
just think, these were mounted atop very tall buildings an were set on rotating platforms to maximize the sound coverage of the warning, some could be started up by the voltage of a phone line thru relays an solenoids then ran with nobody present, ive heard one an i dont have much to say besides, ( DUCK COVER WAIT )
That sound widens your eyes and wakes you up
One of these is located on a small mountain called Cerro Negro lookout near LA, And that particular siren could be heard on Catalina island some 95 km away from it's position taking the sound nearly 5 minutes to reach.
This could be used as the basis of the ultimate alarm clock - imagine waking up to this each morning
That's neat! I came in expecting the 5.4L Triton though, haha. Didn't know Chrysler made one
The Chrysler bell siren has always been one of my favorites because of the haunting sound and the hemi
It's kinda smart when it comes down to it, if the power is out at least you still have a chance of starting that engine.
SO LOUD AND INEFFICIENT!! I LOVE IT!!!!
I have a friend from USA, he has an automatic doors, which are powered by supercharged LS3, world's fastest and quickest automatically opening doors!
This is like one of clarksons V8 inventions. Blender, rocking chair and siren
A damn air raid siren has more power than most Hondas
Oh wow. We had one of these in my local town in the boonies but they used it for tornado warnings.
Someone, somewhere, is doing an LS conversion to one as we watch this video.....
@Joshua_N-A
2 жыл бұрын
LS motors are cheap, civil defence might need them.
Could do a video on koeninseggs new camless engines .With pneumatic valve “springs “
No one: Americans: oh look, a microwave LET'S PUT A 5.4 L V8 IN IT
I can remember back when I was a kid in the 60s, getting so creeped out when they would do weekly tests on the air raid sirens.
they shoulda had made siren powered V8 that just made amplified burble noises of guzzling to make truly deafening sound of freedom
Wow, even my speaker vibrated as hell!!!
Sounds like a V8 with a comically huge supercharger on top! 😜🤘😎
Remember seeing this on Robbie Coltranes engines series some years ago
imagine its turbocharged and lagging wonder how it sounds when the boost hits
Now I would like to see a rotary swap
Wow.. Cool video
Clarkson: Our battle will be legendary!!!
"How to make a V8 louder" Bing: *yes*
138dB at 30m is really stupid loud. That guy at the end with only a pair of muffs is in a pretty dangerous spot.
thats some crazy rpms yo
In England we still have some WW2 air raid sirens being used today. There's a nuclear sub base near me (too near for my liking) and they use one to warn of a nuclear leak/accident. I heard it go off once, luckily it was a malfunction..
@Joshua_N-A
2 жыл бұрын
Couldn't imagine to hear it goes off in the neighbourhood. Residence and military facilities doesn't sound like a good match.
I was waiting for the beat to drop at the end
YES FINALLY A CAR CHANNEL VIDEO ON THISSS
Simply amazing! 😍
Efficiency to be expressed in decibel seconds per gallon. 😂
@ 3:17 Don Garlits digging his out of storage for a blower installation.
Hey Johnny, wanna come and hide from the air attack? Nah, I gotta stand outside and drive the siren man, wish me luck
Would also make for a good car alarm
so , let's swap an 2jz gte in it!
V-8 engine makes Everything better!
the 3rd generation Chrysler Air Raid Siren can be heard during the annual Great Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942 reenactment, at full power
V8 powered blender: Finally a worthy opponent, Our battle will be Legendary!
I seen one at the W. P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills.
Casually shows Don Garlits with an air raid siren and doesn't mention it.
Someone should sneak into Beverly Hills at 4am with one of these things and let er' rip. lol
I’ve got one of these same industrial 331 CI hemis swapped into my truck
I read that there were ten of these in Pittsburgh.
They're making a comeback
You made my day.
That's a sweet fire truck
Nobody: That one civic at 3am: 3:40
Air raid sirens where yosed to warn people from the war. Good video 👍
oh, thank GOD you made it horn by the end
@THEGREATMEMEWIZARD
2 жыл бұрын
Listen to this version: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e3WBy7afg7idiqQ.html
@Xayuap
2 жыл бұрын
@@THEGREATMEMEWIZARD thanks, so creepy
3:55 someone is shitting their pants in the woods thinking that air raid is coming ahhahahaha
What every vehicle needs,, 😂❣ Cheers, thanks and take care VR,, 🍻😎👍!!
We got these in seattle on the hill tops.
There is still one in Phinney Ridge in Seattle Washington in perfect restored condition Most of them have been removed and one of them the city f up and let one slip into private hands this year and he wont give it back because legally its his salvage and he is keeping it in a shed.
Those ear protectors the operator was wearing would be entirely inadequate. The best examples create an attenuation of around 29dB meaning he is still exposed to a sound pressure of 110 dB
@espenschjelderup426
2 жыл бұрын
I would expect it to be less loud behind the horns, where the operator are, than 30m in front of it. But probably still very loud.
Loudest air raid siren ? Hold my beer, and pass the Taco Bell.
Did Chrysler make water pump on the same basis? Because I got my hands on an uncomplete setup like this but grey in color, hemi and Chrysler radiator shroud, nothing else. The guy I got it from said it was originally a water pump, since I'm in France, I doubt it was a siren, even for a water pump it seems overkill especially in France.
@fitzmorrispr
2 жыл бұрын
If you’re irrigating a big farm, that’s not overkill at all. A few of the farms near me in Camarillo, CA have turbo diesel powered pumps, that whistle away for hours. I’ve also heard of farms that used pumps powered by the Industrial version of the 70s 455 (7.5L) Oldsmobile V8
@fitzmorrispr
2 жыл бұрын
here's the sort of thing i'm talking about: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i3p5k62RisTRpso.html
@fitzmorrispr
2 жыл бұрын
or this one, with two v8s kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4xlm4-Rm5TVdqg.html
@youtube-handle-are-a-joke
2 жыл бұрын
@@fitzmorrispr thanks, I have a neighbor who ran some kind of diesel engine for a couple years for irrigation and in summer it was a nightmare, depending on the wind we couldn't keep our windows open because of the noise and fumes despite being a little far. The thing is being in France where gas is a lot more expensive than the in the US, anything v8 is quite rare and the 331 hemi I got is a '53. I doubt a farmer in the 50's would irrigate his crops with such a contraption. Maybe some kind of city flood pump.
When a horn has more torque than a Honda Civic engine
@betweenusonly5281
2 жыл бұрын
1:47
Watching this as an American who just got done working on my V8 swapped mini truck
V8 powered children's swing. The children could be heard screaming 25kms away.