Anyone have a bigrig airhorn on their ride?

wait until you blare one of those at the wrong person and some postal worker or some veteran with PTSD catches you and beats you to death. i'm not saying it's not funny i'm just saying be careful. bullets and baseball bats hurt a bunch and tire irons too

 

the ones from suicide doors are stupid loud. I have a semi truck horn on my toyota, they are loud enough to get peoples attention. They actually dont use all that much air, I have mine hooked up to the tanks that power my bags and it all works nicely.

 

i am going to be putting a hadley airhorn on my rpu. it came off of a 70's ford f100(???) pickup. it is verry loud. one day i blasted it in my driveway and my friend that lives on the other side of town could hear it. and it was right next to my head, and now sometimes my ears ring. hahaha

heres a pic of it

 

I would like to have a set of Grovers off of an old fire truck. They get some attention. Big rig horns are for pussies compared to the ones on our fire engines!

 

I noticed they didn't show the beat down that big cop gave them after they blasted him when he was inspecting their front turn signals!

I'd pay to see what he said and did when he came back to the vehicle.

-Brad

 

we hook up an airhose to one and scare the shit out of some bodymen at the shop

 

I used to have a high rider F250 4x4 with a big rig air horn, and marker lights on the roof. One hight on the way home from work at midnight, a drunk pulled out of a local bar, across 4 lanes to drive 20 mph right in front of me. I got slowed down in time not to hit him, but just as I got to his rear bumper, I laid on the air horn, and hit the brights. I could see his face in the back windpw as he looked back, he drove off the road into a golf course. Funniest thing I ever saw.

 

I have one on my 50 chevy. They are awesome. My elec. horn stopped working and I wanted something really loud for those LA freeway drivers! I bought the airhorn on ebay, its like 36" long.
I just went to a Diesel Truck supply store in LBC/Wilmington and bought the plastic lines and fittings and valve. I then went to Kragen and just bought one of those little red Emergency air tanks for filling up tires. I think it was like $14. You get a few good blasts before you have to refill it at the gas station. Those tanks are cool too because we used them when we went intertubing last winter. You could also get a compressor...
I cant find any pictures off hand. Ill keep looking.

 

This thread is funny....It reminds me of a friend of mine that had a grandfather in WW2. He was in the air force and took one of the air raid sirens. hahahaha....My buddy and dad hooked it up in there garage (two car, faces street type). Its mounted on the edge of the work bench right at the door opening. Hooked it up and whenever assholes are speeding in the neighborhood or whenever we want to be assholes we fire that basterd up.
And let me tell you....that fucker aint quite!!!
hahahaha

Ah hell...the crap that makes us laugh...hahaha

 

At the dreamcruise a bunch of those huge F-superduty rig looking pickup things had air horns on that sounded like freight trains. Scare the crap outta ya too.
CHAZ

 

one of the guys i worked for had one. he would come up behind you and scare the shit out of you. that got me everytime.

 

i install train horns at my shop they ARE f'n loud

 

My dad hooked a 6V oogah horn to a 12V battery charger... plugged into a socket hooked to a light switch... for halloween... hit the switch when the kids are on the porch (add in the echo)... some kids dropped their candy bags when they ran... I bet at least one of them ended up with a miniature Snickers bar in their Spiderman suit.

Thanks,
Kurt

 

The '48 5-window Chevy truck I had had electric air horns that were pretty loud under the hood- loud enough to get some people a couple cars ahead in the fast lane to get outta the way.

Thanks,
Kurt

 

I have a set of Fiamm air horns on my motorscooter. They are nowhere near as loud as a train horn, but they really wake up the idiots. They are cheap at Harbor Freight.

Slonaker

 

I had train horns on my last ride, and it was the most gratifying thing in the world to scare the pants off someone crossing the tracks in front of me!!! Only got to do it a couple of times, but man, that alone made them worth the price.
FWIW, I was running my entire air suspension and the train horns off of 4 gallons of air, and it was more than enough for several blasts. I would imagine that even 1-2 gallons would be sufficient for just the horns.
Check out http://www.fbirides.com/product.asp?idno=8917 for the same setup I was running. Have fun!!

-Phil

 

would you settle for a load speaker?

 

The Fiamm are the same as on the Ferarris. I have a set on my daily. Really gets people out of the way!

 

In Wisconsin the only rule that I can find is that a car horn must be heard at 200 feet. I think I need to find a train horn. Heh, heh....

 

I have a set of "Lola horns Made in Italy" that come with their own little compresser, they play a tune, there are 5 horns ranging in size from 14 inches to about 9 inches, i'm going to pick a few and hook them up to my air setup on my truck, just to get a dual or triple tone horn, don't need the tune so much, i have no idea what the tune is called. Kinda like that horn on Caddyshack.

I had them wired for about 2 days on the truck but they took up so much room under the hood, and the tune was kinda gay... i'm going to mount them to the underside of the hood this time or else tuck them under the front bumper or somethin, i don't want to see them.

 

Does anyone know who has the loudest most badass automotive train horn system on the market?Siege engineering?Hornblasters?Please let me know wich model etc...and by what company.It has to be authentic sounding but so loud that it would even freak out the train thats passing by.I need some expert help!!!!Thanks

 

Yep If you don't know its coming you'd swear a train is coming right at you.

 

Ask the truckers they know all about them, and where to get them.

 

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I asked a similar questionon this thread...!

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=171270

 

The one and only mighty Kahlenberg. Certified for sea vessels over 200 feet long. No compressor needed; the piece on the top is the 7.5 hp motor needed to oscillate the air for it.
There was a huge Kahlenberg on a cruise ship we sailed on a few years ago. NO mistaking that!

 

You can buy locomotive horns legally, but they'll set you back $500-$1200 depending on how many bells to it. Have seen them for sale on ebay, had a buddy who deals in locomotives lend me one to sell and a guy dicked me around on it kept telling me Nathan (brand name) sells them direct for like $850, but I think it was a load of shit trying to get us to come down on the price, because it was funny 3 days after the auction ends he emails me up asking if the high bidder paid for it wanting to buy if they didn't.

Keep the reciept, because a lot of the truckers who have them got them from the Midnight Locomotive Parts Depot using a 5-finger (and several wrench) discount. Doesn't even matter if it's old, railroads tend to recycle some of that stuff from old engines to new ones. The really early single chime ones are about the only ones no one uses now.

But I'd want credentials before I let any "railroad inspector" take the thing. Railroads have their own police and they're the only guy qualified to actually confiscate things they suspect are stolen.

A local guy had one on a Ford Ranger, with a big air tank in the bed. I guess he took it off after a couple noise ordinance tickets.. but a lot of these guys like to toot them just for fun.

This 5-chime one I have here is huge, you'd have to have a lot of room under the hood to mount it up, and probably make your own bracket for the bells to hang from. I can hear a train using his right now, from the sound of it he's still 5 miles away from where I am.. my old house you could hear them blow for a crossing that was 8 miles away if it was quiet and the wind was right.

 

I was at a truck shop in carlisle pa once,they had all sorts of horns, the coolest though was a tug boat horn, just imagine that- LOW bass!

 

I don't think I used my horn twice in the last 35-40 years, but I'm debating using one on the roof my new chopped shop truck just so I can have a chain to jerk on

 

Nifty old air horn for you.

 

Who needs an airhorn when you see this running up your ass @ 75m.p.h.