i am thinking about buying a train horn. run me 399 installed. why you ask? well cause it wold just be funny as hell sometimes and in certain situations. cant tell from the outside that its there. it runs on a compressor. anyone with experience with one of these loud things?

-chris B

 

train horn? $399? thats pretty crazy..

why not just get hella supertones or 2 or 3 trumpet air horns? their both under $100 (for the part) and don't take much to install... the supertones don't need a compressor and the trumpet ones use a compressor... I have air horns hooked up to my horn switch and also my alarm

 

where can i get any of these and how hard are they to install?

 

how loud are the hellas sompared to the stock ones? i mean stock ONE. the dc2 only has one horn right? maybe someone can tell me in db

 

taney and JDM I'm replying to both of you in 1 reply ok? anyway..

the install is not hard at all .. I have the 2 trumpet (1 high 1 low pitch) air horn which has a compressor and relay..

you have to take off the front bumper unless you want to mount them somewhere other than in the front of the car near the inner radiator support/bumper/front mouth, etc area... anyway all you do is mount the air horns where ever you like.. then mount the compressor.. connect the air tube to the compressor.. and connect the Y out/splitter tube to the 2 air horns.. now you are done w/ the physical installation.. tap into the horn button/horn trigger switch/wire.. and wire this to your relay... the other prongs on the relay go to fused 12V, ground, and + for the air compressor.. ground the air compressor and your done.. plug in the fuse and hit the horn button to test that it works and the air horn sounds... if it does after your connections are soldered, shrink wrapped, wire conduit and whatever else you want to do w/ them.. put back your front bumper and your done..

the hella supertones are electrical (no compressor) I believe.. making it even easier to mount/install than air horns (since theres no trumpets or air compressor just 2 curved/circular air horns...

as for db I believe it said either 120db or 125 db on the box.. let me tell you when I honk my horn.. or my alarm goes off (w/ alarm siren AND air horns.. ) its loud as hell...

 

i'm also thinking about wiring the horn to my alarm but is there a way that the horn will not go off when i engage/disengage the alarm? thanx

 

399 thats steep for a horn but well worth when someone cuts u off i quess

 

I have the hella dual trumpet horns also. I like them because they are definitely louder and better sounding than stock but not obnoxious.

 

my alarm (Clifford) has a pulsed horn/siren output that is separate from the siren output... when I arm and disarm only the siren chirps the arm and disarm chirps.. not the horn.. or if I silently arm then the parking lights just blink.. but neither the siren nor the air horns go off... when the alarm goes off (impact, proximity, tilt, or door, hood, or trunk is opened) then BOTH the sirens and the air horns go off.. the siren goes off constant.. the air horns are pulsed.. meaning they go ON then OFF, then ON, then OFF.. kind of like if you were inside pressing the horn button for 1 second (so that it sounds) then releasing the horn button (no sound) then pressing it again, etc... the alarm has a pulsed horn output...

 

NOT worth it!

 

back from the dead

http://videos.streetfire.net/h...2.htm

best mod EVARRRRR....cops love it (must see end of vid)

 

I have them on my daily beater (2TZFZE Previa)











Rick

 

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LOL!!!! Holy crapshat. That's nuts. But awesome!! :thumbsup:

 

My dad had a set on his Buick Electra, [long time ago] compressor was run off the fan belt, large tank in engine bay and an air hose that would reach all the wheels, 4 horns, and a switch that would honk 2 of them or blast all 4, and just like the vid. nothing more fun then cruising in dads Buick on a Fri. night with 8 or 9 of your friend, [this is a huge car] and watching people damn near jump out of their undies when I honk the horn, and it those days the noise bylaws..... "we don nee no stinkin noise bylaws".
We had to do something for fun, if you were working on or cruising on a Honda it was an ugly small motorcycle made in Japan a compact car was a 2 door Chev that would seat 7, hot tunes was a good FM station, [mono], but the reaction of people to a set of train horns was pretty much the same and all a cop could do was give you a hard time and try and cite you for something else. 94

 

I saw a few videos of this somewhere..not sure where.

I'd be worried about killing someone with a heart condition.

 

Prolly Google Video

Here's a little test video of the HB4H's after the initial install:

http://video.google.com/videop...=true

Switch Panel Testing with HB4H and stock horn:

http://video.google.com/videop...=true


Tank Dump with HB4H only:

http://video.google.com/videop...=true

And here's a shop test video of the K3HA's before I installed them on the van (this one's NUTZ!!:

http://video.google.com/videop...=true


Rick

 

seen it done before... it is funny... everyone plugs their ears... im thinking about doing it in my little hatch so when they try show off ill set mine off lol.