Loud electric horns

[JSmith]

Where can I get LOUD electric horns? Or am I limited to the air horns? I want LOUD but not air if I don`t have to.

 

[Joe G.]

Find a six volt Chevy horn. You have to run it thru a relay with a big circuit breaker because it will draw a lot of juice.

 

[rrausch]

Go with a Caddy-Blaster!



I've been going out to my local junk yard for the last 4 cars and trucks I own, and pulling the Caddy 4-note horn sets off of old Eldorado's. They go for about $15 here in L. A. and definitely make people sit up and take notice! I also use the Caddy relays, but stock Dodge might work too.

 

[JLEONARD]

I am using a 1960 Caddy triple horn set.

It's not as loud as an air horn... . but gettin' there.

Jay

 

[JR2]

Hella...

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Hella makes some... I have no experience with them.



You can buy them here or just do a google search and find many more places.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

those Hellas are only listed at 118db... I got a couple at Pep Boys that were rated at 134db on the box. I turned them up a little louder!



they're not air horns, but they do get attention.



Forrest

 

[StephenThomas]

What is the typical db on our stock truck horns??

 

[JSmith]

What is the typical db on our stock truck horns??

Members?

 

[rrausch]

Stock is hardly loud enough to bother a little old lady snoozing along at 15 mph in the fast lane.



However with the Caddy-blasters on my old truck I was once driving down a main thoroughfare in L. A. , approaching a green light, and there stumbling along in the crosswalk, against a red light was 3 inebriated bums pushing a shopping cart and paying absolutely no attention to traffic or the fact that they were crossing against a red light. They were just laughing and stumbling along. I just coasted a little bit closer, until I was about 2 car lengths from them and leaned on the Caddy-blasters. Beer cans and other stuff went flying through the air as they suddenly came to LIFE and ran for their lives! I wouldn't have hit them, but it was fun to be their "wake-up" call.