Air horn

805gregg · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:33 am

Anyone install an after market airhorn on their KJ ? I've got stabel compact airhorns on my motorcycles and got one to install in my jeep. I used relays on my bikes is one needed on the KJ?

hyedipin · **Joined:** Thu May 11, 2006 10:20 am **Posts:** 1667

A few people did, but unless it is one of those truck horns, I wouldn't mount air horn on KJ. It has to sound like a freight train or truck, otherwise it sounds like one of those dollar cabs.

kolesy · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:15 pm

Here's what I did. No relays needed. jUst tapped intot he stock wiring for the horn.

http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/vie ... highlight=

805gregg · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:32 am

hyedipin wrote:

A few people did, but unless it is one of those truck horns, I wouldn't mount air horn on KJ. It has to sound like a freight train or truck, otherwise it sounds like one of those dollar cabs.

Nope at 135 decibles it just plane loud, you should see dopes on their phones when they decide to enter my motorcycle space, they wake up fast. Thanks kolesy I'll try them with stock wires.

riptricket · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:23 am

do you think that you could keep the stock signals and the pepboys ones?

LibertyFever · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:24 am

After finding this website I got the urge to get a set of air horns for my Libby http://www.hornblasters.com/

I find the Libby's horn to be so weak.

Try looking in a marine supply store. I found ones simular to these but at $172 I found it difficult to justify.

mind you you might not find the room under the hood...maybe on the hood...hmmmm...

Just Google "marine horns". There's a lot to chose from and a variety of sizes. I like the idea of the electric ones, no compressors to mess with.

kolesy · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:32 pm

805gregg wrote:

hyedipin wrote:

A few people did, but unless it is one of those truck horns, I wouldn't mount air horn on KJ. It has to sound like a freight train or truck, otherwise it sounds like one of those dollar cabs.

Nope at 135 decibles it just plane loud, you should see dopes on their phones when they decide to enter my motorcycle space, they wake up fast. Thanks kolesy I'll try them with stock wires.

No problem all i did was extend the wires over to where i mounted the new horns and compressors. Good luck,

And it is great to see the looks on the dopes faces who are on the phones not payin attention when you hit the horn! :lol:

Hood297 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:19 pm

Well about a year ago I was in the same situation with air horns.

First I ordered the red plastic ones that kolesy has on his KJ. I took them out of the package and was so excited, just to be disappointed. now dont get me wrong these things are very loud but have the same tone as the stock horn, I wasnt so happy. I packed them up and shipped them back.

SO i ordered some that were chrome a little bigger and (about 1") and the same thing. ( I've still got them, For Sale )

After that I started looking around, I work at a marina and a friend of mine hooked me up with a set he had on his 52' hatteras. sold them to me for 20 bucks. you could easily blow some ones ear drum with these guys :twisted:

Theyre hooked up to a wolo air system, I like it better than a direct drive because it is way louder since its putting out about 110 PSI instead of 30.

also you can hook up an air hose and air up tires, ect.

Oh and theyre about 22" long. Youll get alot better tone out of longer and larger diameter trupets.

Pote · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:30 pm

Hood297 wrote:

Well about a year ago I was in the same situation with air horns.

First I ordered the red plastic ones that kolesy has on his KJ. I took them out of the package and was so excited, just to be disappointed. now dont get me wrong these things are very loud but have the same tone as the stock horn, I wasnt so happy. I packed them up and shipped them back.

SO i ordered some that were chrome a little bigger and (about 1") and the same thing. ( I've still got them, For Sale )

After that I started looking around, I work at a marina and a friend of mine hooked me up with a set he had on his 52' hatteras. sold them to me for 20 bucks. you could easily blow some ones ear drum with these guys :twisted:

Theyre hooked up to a wolo air system, I like it better than a direct drive because it is way louder since its putting out about 110 PSI instead of 30.

also you can hook up an air hose and air up tires, ect.

Oh and theyre about 22" long. Youll get alot better tone out of longer and larger diameter trupets.

holy airhorns batman!!!!! those are sick!!! I hope I am never in front of you falling asleep at the wheel at a stop light...I'd need a spare change of underwear after you woke me back up...that or those paddles ER people use to jump start someones heart! LOL....that is unreal....don't happen to have a sound clip of those badboys do ya???

hyedipin · **Joined:** Thu May 11, 2006 10:20 am **Posts:** 1667

wow, large trumpets! They must sound pretty nasty. So it has a compressor on top and air tank below it? How quickly does it fill back up? I am sure you can honk it a few times before it needs more air?
How about a sound clip?

jeepgirl0385 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:16 pm

Cool...here is another thing to add to my wishlist of Jeep mods..which grows longer by the day!

I also want to get a set for my motorcycle. It is a little old Honda CM400E...i think it would be awesome to have a set of very loud air horns so I can honk at all those moronic drivers who seem to think I am invisible, even though they will look straight at me and then proceed to cut me off. Jerks.

And I would like to be able to sneak up behind people walking down the middle of the parking lot lanes holding up traffic and then honk the horns. What would be even more fun would be to get a sound byte of a screeching brake noise from like a tractor trailer or something, play that and the horn. Muahahaha...it would be loads of fun! :twisted:

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