Different Horn - Page 2

haha seee more people want to put train horns on their cars. YAY FOR THE TRAIN HORN

I dont know if I agree with icspots. My horn is loud. install a breeze. You will have to pull down the plastic under the car, about 8 screws. My install was easier because I pulled the cheap plastic "blank offs" off my car where the fog lights would go. So I was able to reach right in a pull the horn.

question... the airhorns that are sold.. is it required to have an airtank for them to work properly?

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ORIGINAL: eastcoaster

I dont know if I agree with icspots. My horn is loud. install a breeze. You will have to pull down the plastic under the car, about 8 screws. My install was easier because I pulled the cheap plastic "blank offs" off my car where the fog lights would go. So I was able to reach right in a pull the horn.

Is it the need to raise the front of the car up that you don't agree with?  When I did mine I had my front tires at the edge of my carport with the nose sticking over the very slight incline down the driveway.  It was just enough room for me to squeeze my head under the bumper and one hand up to the horn.  Or I could sit facing the car with both hands working on the horn but unable to see.  If you have access to ramps or jackstands then it's way easier to just jack the car up so you can see well and get both hands in there.

Since I didn't just replace the stock high tone with the FB low tone I had to do a little more jury rigging.  This is what my bracket looked like with both horns in there.  The horn farther towards the bottom of the picture is on the stock bracket and the second one is attached to the stock bracket using the bracket it came with.  It ended up with both horns fitting in the stock space, it was just a pain in the ass to get the whole thing in there while working by touch.  Then I just spliced the two hot wires together and connected them to the stock original wiring.



Also HERE's a clip of the horns.  That's with the FB low and the stock high tone.  This isn't my car but someone who I was helping out.  The recording doesn't really do it justice, but they are loud full sounding horns.

Icspots; No I meant I dont agree you need the low and high tone. I was just trying to say the low tone is planty of sound if you want to keep it simple. High and low would kick even more ass.

Well to each his own.  Try adding back in your high tone and see how it sounds to you. :D

i finally gave into peer pressure and added a Highway Blaster as a second horn to mine. The OEM is a High-Tone FIAMM so I simply added the low-tone equivelent.
I can't say that I am overwhelmed w/the outcome, but it is different. I was expecting more... power as Tim Allen would put it.

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ORIGINAL: virgin1

i finally gave into peer pressure and added a Highway Blaster as a second horn to mine. The OEM is a High-Tone FIAMM so I simply added the low-tone equivelent.
I can't say that I am overwhelmed w/the outcome, but it is different. I was expecting more... power as Tim Allen would put it.

 
HAR HAR HAR. as tim allen would put it. also as tim allen would put it... it will either break or have soemthing done to it. hope you did a bob villa job and not a tim the tool man taylor job hehe. as for me. the horn is fine. i have no problems with it. it does sound kinda gay but what do i care.. in a few years ill have the train horn MWAHAHAHHAHAHAHA then people will fear for their lives.. cops will give me tickets right and left. and ill be screwed... but ill enjoy it... oh yess ill enjoy it :D

I simply daisy-chained them together. I installed the new horn where the OE horn was and connected the new mounting bracket to that so that the hons themselves are in a staggered pattern.
I have a picture of the install when the ft. bumper was off. When I get home again I'll have to locate it and post it up. It does make access to the fog light a little tougher w/both horns there though.

Oh, yeah. Read it and weep. 1000 posts, Jaime.

DAMMIT. now im over half way there shiiiit

and im more than half there from you jaimie lol.. and once againnnn.. can an air horn be installed without the need of an airtank??

oh well speedy soon you wont be i promise ;). i would assuemj that you would need a compresser for the airhorn... otherwise how would it work?

wel this is the horm i'm interested in. can anyone explain to me if there will be anything extra needed?
 
http://www.hornblasters.com/products/details.php?item=PSY2

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ORIGINAL: SPeeDy3

wel this is the horm i'm interested in. can anyone explain to me if there will be anything extra needed?

http://www.hornblasters.com/products/details.php?item=PSY2

Well it comes with a little compressor, and a relay for wiring it up.  I imagine that it has a wiring harness to go with the relay, but if it doesn't then you'll just need some wire to connect the terminals on the relay (power, ground, device, signal) and then figure out where you want to mount it.

OK i just called hornblasters and they said that the wiring harness comes with it. so, im good?

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ORIGINAL: SPeeDy3
and once againnnn.. can an air horn be installed without the need of an airtank??

Well, it's REEAAALLLYYYY nice to be back and on my own computer, but by the by the same token I really hate to break that 1000 post mark I'm at.
That said, and to answer your question SPeeDy, yes air horns can be installed w/o a supplementary air tank.  That's how the ones on my Volvo were so many years ago now.  However, when you hit the button you have to wait for the air compressor to spool up and therefore there is a slight delay from the trumpets.

Post 1001, Jaime.  Read it and weep!!     

DAMMIT 1001. im at like 530 soo im like more then halfway. STOP POSTING lol. but at the same time its good that your back to talk to you some more :D. im sooo close to getting on that top 10 posts

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ORIGINAL: virgin1

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ORIGINAL: SPeeDy3
and once againnnn.. can an air horn be installed without the need of an airtank??

Well, it's REEAAALLLYYYY nice to be back and on my own computer, but by the by the same token I really hate to break that 1000 post mark I'm at.
That said, and to answer your question SPeeDy, yes air horns can be installed w/o a supplementary air tank.  That's how the ones on my Volvo were so many years ago now.  However, when to hit to button you have to wait for the air compressor to spool up and therefore there is a slight delay from the trumpets.

Post 1001, Jaime.  Read it and weep!!     

 
 
thanks for the info. i dont mind the delay. as long as i can scare somebody with loud ass horn! lol
 
one more thing.. the forum kinda dies down when virgin is away. so glad to have you back

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ORIGINAL: SPeeDy3
... one more thing.. the forum kinda dies down when virgin is away. so glad to have you back

 

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... but at the same time its good that your back to talk to you some more :D. im sooo close to getting on that top 10 posts

 
Awwww!  Well isn't that nice.  Thank you guys. 
I did think the forum had slowed down too, but I have over 380 e-mail notifications in my inbox now that I'm home... and over 100 when I was answering you from my step-daughter's house that one day.  'Course a lot of them are duplicates from the same threads too, but if I answer all of them (fat chance) you'll have a lot more catching up to do Jaime.     
 

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. hahahaha. well if i get onto the top 10 posters ill be happy. yeaaa your owning me totally though. gotta get my first oil change done today :D

by the way richard what are you doing up at 7:19 AM or whatever time it is in texas THE LONE STAR STATE ( i have always liked texas and that includes the rap that comes from it) baha

Are we thread-jacking/post-whoring again?  Remember, "D" is watching......     
 
Probably 6:19 AM (CST) when you replied.  I get up for work @ 3:20 AM most days, though I'm off through tomorrow.
My new wheels and tires should be here today or tomorrow too.  (YEA!!!!)  I'll have time to install them... and it's only 54* F here now too.  That's what it was during the warmest part of the day on Pa. and the sun is not even shining here yet.  70-80* today, I'm sure. 
God, I LOVE being home again.  Traveling sucks, but... nah, traveling SUCKS!!!     
 
 

if i purchase an aftermarket horn will it affect my warranty at all if i end up having something go wrong witht he motor/intake system?

In a word, no.

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ORIGINAL: npoll212

if i purchase an aftermarket horn will it affect my warranty at all if i end up having something go wrong witht he motor/intake system?

 
how about any electrical warranty?