hemi

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I went to Rankin Tech in St Louis Mo and we had 2 of those engines running 750 K Gen. Sets. Those 2 hemi's had to be tuned to perfection to get enough out of the generators to start the 1000 hp locomotive engine at the school. The class before mine forgot to turn on the oil pump to the engine and it oversped and siezed a rod brg. It was a big inline 6 Detroit and 1200 rpm was overspeed for it. The building it was in covered a city block square and we all thought there was a earthquake when that big boy went. My class got to tear it down and I now have a rod and piston assembly out of it for my mail box stand.

Anyway back to the hemi's Buizilla is right it just about took a new set of points everytime you wanted the things to run right. I don't remember what the hp was but it wasn't very good. The one's on the gen sets always had a vibration to them that just never seemed right, don't know if it was the engine or the gen. they was turning.