Air Horn ... What are your thoughts

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old Oct 4, 2009 | 02:24 PM
  #31  
IORf150's Avatar
Senior Member
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,819
Likes: 0
From: Lakeland,Florida
Yeah ebay or hornblasters.com, which hornblasters has a shop on ebay, theres better deals out there, just gotta look. I payed 180 for the compressor, tank was like 70 bucks, then pressur switch was $20, then horns were like $180-$200 cant remember exactly.
 
Reply
Old Oct 4, 2009 | 09:36 PM
  #32  
Impact9's Avatar
Senior Member
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 2,927
Likes: 0
From: Wichita KS
I got my viair compressor from hornblasters.com along with the 5 gallon stainless steel tank. The tank has 4 ports on it. One for the pressure switch, one for compressor, one for horns, and the last for air hose accessories.

 
Reply
Old Oct 5, 2009 | 01:25 AM
  #33  
sampson01's Avatar
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,203
Likes: 0
From: Boston, Ma
Ya found a 5 gallon tank for 60. What size compressor for this beast and also what type of line should I use? My shop has a ton of heater hose that I can use that's 1/2 inch and or bigger. Could that be used and also thinking of adding a nipple on the last port so I can fill it at the shop if I don't feel like kicking the compressor on.
 
Reply
Old Oct 5, 2009 | 11:44 AM
  #34  
IORf150's Avatar
Senior Member
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,819
Likes: 0
From: Lakeland,Florida
I have a 380cc viar 200psi compressor, with a 5 gallon tank. If I was you I would run a 1/2 line, you can probably use that tubing, just make sure whatever psi you are running, that the tubing is high psi rated, meaning if your running 200 psi, you want tubing that is rated 200 psi or you can higher, if you dont do that you will be busting tubes all day. HAHA that dont sound right.
 
Reply
Old Oct 5, 2009 | 12:27 PM
  #35  
ameration's Avatar
Thread Starter
|
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 1,035
Likes: 0
Thanks for hi-jacking the thread guys.

I just got off the phone with the company that sells these and told them what I was looking for. He said he has only ever received complaints on these if guys were expecting the big train horn sound from a $350+ system. He really eased my fears about this stating that it is a pretty decent low tone and loud - especially for the cost and he has sold hundreds of them. I feel that he was pretty honest as he sells the full systems too. So, he could of tried to talk me up to a system but he didn't. I ended up ordering one directly from them and they gave me a price break as well. I will report back when it is installed.
 

Last edited by ameration; Oct 5, 2009 at 12:48 PM.
Reply
Old Oct 5, 2009 | 07:52 PM
  #36  
sampson01's Avatar
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,203
Likes: 0
From: Boston, Ma
Look on the bright side we extended your choices lol. Wanna hear what the kit you chose sounds like. Think I'm just going to go with the go big or go home setup. And hopefully I don't blow a tube ior
 
Reply
Old Oct 5, 2009 | 08:07 PM
  #37  
IORf150's Avatar
Senior Member
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,819
Likes: 0
From: Lakeland,Florida
HAHA 10/4 man, if you have any questions just let me know. I just bought some stuff today, I'm gonna use my extra port and run a line from the tank to the inside of the truck and mount me a gauge in the dash or something.
 
Reply
Old Oct 6, 2009 | 12:15 AM
  #38  
sampson01's Avatar
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,203
Likes: 0
From: Boston, Ma
Got any extra parts? Lol.
 
Reply
Old Oct 6, 2009 | 01:07 AM
  #39  
FX4life's Avatar
Technical Article Contributor
Truck of the Month
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 4,391
Likes: 0
From: High Plains of West Texas
Originally Posted by IORf150
HAHA 10/4 man, if you have any questions just let me know. I just bought some stuff today, I'm gonna use my extra port and run a line from the tank to the inside of the truck and mount me a gauge in the dash or something.
Been there done that... LEAK CITY! Best gauge I have gotten so far has been the Air Zenith digital. No running air lines, just two simple wires and your done. You should check um out
 
Reply
Old Oct 6, 2009 | 05:07 PM
  #40  
IORf150's Avatar
Senior Member
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,819
Likes: 0
From: Lakeland,Florida
Originally Posted by FX4life
Been there done that... LEAK CITY! Best gauge I have gotten so far has been the Air Zenith digital. No running air lines, just two simple wires and your done. You should check um out
So what do you hook the wires up?
 
Reply
Old Oct 6, 2009 | 06:44 PM
  #41  
sampson01's Avatar
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,203
Likes: 0
From: Boston, Ma
Prob just a pressure sensor With 3 wires. One ground one power and one signal to the gauge for the readout
 
Reply
Old Oct 15, 2009 | 08:56 PM
  #42  
ameration's Avatar
Thread Starter
|
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 1,035
Likes: 0
Installed it today and I am pretty happy with it. Sure, it is not nearly as loud as a train horn set up but it sounds better than the OEM horn. In fact, it is about the same loudness as the OEM horn, just in an air horn sound instead of the high pitch crappy horn sound. Hey, for $50, I can't complain.
 
Reply
Old Oct 15, 2009 | 11:17 PM
  #43  
FX4life's Avatar
Technical Article Contributor
Truck of the Month
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 4,391
Likes: 0
From: High Plains of West Texas
Originally Posted by IORf150
So what do you hook the wires up?
It has a pressure sending unit you put on one port of your tank, connect the two wires (Pos. and ground) and run the positive back up to the gauge, and just find a place at the back of the truck (or wherever) for the ground. The gauge wire harness taps into power/acc/ and the pos. from the sending unit and that is it.
 
Reply
Old Oct 17, 2009 | 09:24 PM
  #44  
bulaxste's Avatar
Junior Member
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
I accept: The tanks on ebay are fairly cheap too from 50-100 bucks depending on what size you want and compressors are usually the most expensive, you could check hornblasters.com they usually have refurbs for 100 or so that they guarantee.
____________________
Liposuction before and after photos | laser liposuction cost | Tumescent liposuction prices
 
Reply
Old Nov 15, 2009 | 12:40 PM
  #45  
avfrog's Avatar
Senior Member
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 6,172
Likes: 1
From: Missouri
I just got my K3LA set up!!!
 
Reply



All times are GMT -4. The time now is 12:43 AM.