goldwing2000
Turd in the punch bowl
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- 2004 Mazda3s Hatch; 269,000 miles
Ok, so this was one of the first mods I made to the car. The stock horn made me giggle every time I used it, so I figured it wasn't doing any real good.
What better to scare the bejesus out of some oblivious soccer mom who dares trespass in my lane than a set of semi-truck/freight train air horns? (rockon)
Here are the horns:
Here is the air compressor and 130psi storage tank that runs the horns:
And here's a short video of how they sound (before and after)
http://home.comcast.net/~goldwing2000/Hornhi.WMV
All the brackets are custom-made (by me) and powder-coated in anthracite. All the wiring is hidden, all the hoses are either hidden or camouflaged and the power is routed through relays mounted directly in the under-hood power distribution center with an arming switch inside the car.
Total installation time, including fabricating the brackets and creating a wiring diagram, was about 25 hours. Total retail cost of all the components and powder-coating would be about $450.00 (that's not what it cost me). That's not including any kind of labor if you had to pay somebody to install it.
The horn kit is manufactured by Hadley Products
and can be purchased from JC Whitney.
Now that I have my CAI installed, I think I may move the compressor down to the area where the factory intake resonator was to help clean up the installation and get rid of the vibration resonating through the firewall.
Oh, and I have TWO pairs of the same horns on my Goldwing. (nana)
What better to scare the bejesus out of some oblivious soccer mom who dares trespass in my lane than a set of semi-truck/freight train air horns? (rockon)
Here are the horns:
Here is the air compressor and 130psi storage tank that runs the horns:
And here's a short video of how they sound (before and after)
http://home.comcast.net/~goldwing2000/Hornhi.WMV
All the brackets are custom-made (by me) and powder-coated in anthracite. All the wiring is hidden, all the hoses are either hidden or camouflaged and the power is routed through relays mounted directly in the under-hood power distribution center with an arming switch inside the car.
Total installation time, including fabricating the brackets and creating a wiring diagram, was about 25 hours. Total retail cost of all the components and powder-coating would be about $450.00 (that's not what it cost me). That's not including any kind of labor if you had to pay somebody to install it.
The horn kit is manufactured by Hadley Products
and can be purchased from JC Whitney.
Now that I have my CAI installed, I think I may move the compressor down to the area where the factory intake resonator was to help clean up the installation and get rid of the vibration resonating through the firewall.
Oh, and I have TWO pairs of the same horns on my Goldwing. (nana)