supz

I recently bought the Hella Supertone kit from rallylights.com, and came into some trouble trying to find a place to mount the horns.

The problem is that the mounting locations where you would normally install the horns were being occupied by the OEM foglights I have on my car. I ended up guessing and checking various locations for about 5 hours, trying to find any spots within the bumper that I could fit the two new horns, which are much bigger than the OEM horn.

I finally found two spots, in front of the wheels that allowed me to fit the foglights, bumper and horns all at the same time.

Pictures are here

Some things I wasn't happy about after the install:
- The Hella mounting bracket, which was made up of three layers of metal stacked up next to one another, could not be easily bent to accommodate my non-stock location. To work around this, I just took a single layer from that bracket, and bent it. It was very flimsy, however did a good enough job holding up the horn, that at 1am I decided to just deal with it, and maybe sometime in the future replace it with something stronger.
- I didn't use the hella supplied relay, because I couldn't find the honda relay to replace it. I think that I may be losing some performance from the horn because of this, as the horn is just as loud as the stock horn, except it actually sounds like a real car now, instead of a monotone little match box car horn.
- Right now the horns are blasting into the plastic of the bumper, which I think slightly muffles them.

Anyway, I wanted to put this up, so if anyone else wants to do something similar, they'll have a point of reference.

wonderz

iTrader: (18)

cool, nice install.
btw i don't think relay would make you lose any performance. more for a safety issue.

AggressiveAdam

iTrader: (4)

should have gone for the airhorn

supz

wonderz,

Thanks! I think you're right -- yesterday I got to really use the horn, on some old person that decided it was their job to drive me off the road. This horn is nice and loud -- got the guys attention, and maybe gave him a heart attack. Why do you say the relay may be more of a safety issue?

AggressiveAdam,

No thanks -- this thing is great. If I got the airhorns, I'd probably still be installing them.

grenloch101056

iTrader: (11)

the relay is more of a safety issue because the horns might try to draw more curent than the wiring for the OEM horn can handle. Hooking up a relay lets the oem horn wiring activate the relay, while it draws power from a seperate connection, usually straight at the battery or fuse box