Same as Tony bought. They sound superb, very loud, easy fit. Very worthwhile addition to 14 i reckon. Let them mongrels know youre nearby. They even look good fitted. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Supertone-Dual-Car-Grille-Horn-Pair-12V-139dB-For-Subaru-Impreza-WRX-Evo-Z5M1/183728913515?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
I tried mine in the Clem-7 tunnel on the way home from work.
I frightened myself.... :rofl2:
They sure are loud Tony. Nice tone but. Much easier than rooting around fitting under tank etc. How did the other one for ute go?
Quote from: grog on Thursday, 31 October 2019, 07:41 PM
They sure are loud Tony. Nice tone but. Much easier than rooting around fitting under tank etc. How did the other one for ute go?
Haven't fitted it yet.
Trying to focus more on my house reno.
Might run a seperate feed and a relay for that one.
Oh dear... now you've done it. I just hit buy now.... :rofl2:
Just a straight swap are they? No extra wiring or relays or anything?
Vlad, a bit bigger but straight on. I gave horns a good coat of car wax and brackets an extra coat of paint. Youll be impressed of sound.
Vlad, did you ever get/ fit those horns?
Not yet mate just another item on my expanding to do list.
As I ended up with black and red ones (contrary to my order) I worry they ,may be too obvious, look shite but I will try 'em and see.
Otherwise I may need to repaint them.
Vlad, give them a coat of paint, they need it anyway. Noticed today surface rust on tiny screws that hold them together. Will pull mine of and paint. Good horns, sound excellent.
Quote from: grog on Friday, 03 January 2020, 05:44 PM
Noticed today surface rust on tiny screws that hold them together.
No doubt made of only the finest chinesium.
Could ber worse I got some highly expensive door hinge replacements for the defender, supposedly stainless steel (IIRC) and had them painted black. Rust everywhere not sure if its from the allegedly stainless steel or the bolts that hold it all together. Yet another job I need to do...
Superhorn?? Last time I woke up with one of those I tapped the Mrs on the shoulder :smitten: .......... she wasn't as impressed as I was :jack: :facepalm:
Gents....today l found a pair of Klaxon horns that l would like to put on the bike,
problem is they only have one spade terminal, l guess they earth through the mounting. My question is am l able to wire them up and use them somehow ?
THEY ARE LOUD........I like :onya:
Col, not really the right set up but can make them work. You could insulate the mounting bolt, solder earth wire onto end.
I'm not sure why you'd want to insulate the mounting bolt as that's where it would normally earth.
I'd be inclined to put a ring terminal on your earth wire, slip it onto the mounting bolt & do her up. It's possible you could even get away without the earth wire as the frame is all earthed anyway, but running an earth wire would be a better option. IMO
I'm hopeless with electrics but know l could bugger things up. Know l needed to isolate the horb mount but didn't want them coming loose. Can make the horns go just by turning the key on otherwise :confused1:
So decided to ring a friend whom l had forgotten about before posting..... an auto sparky !!
Now the tanks off, the seats off and l will soon have one lot of horn wires going to a relay, a fused feed from the battery to the relay and a wire from the relay to the horns. Will finish the job tomorrow. Then run the live feed from the orher horn to power the small LED running lights. If all goes well. Thanks guys....will keep you posted :onya:
I expect they'll need an earth lead as both the horn bracket & frame are painted, I don't see it being a very good earth connection to use.
As far as I know there is not one thing on the 14 that is earthed to the frame. The spark plugs are earthed to the engine, from there through the big earth wire directly to the battery. Every other electrical component is wired to the big earth wire (from the engine) via the connector close to the battery. The frame is earthed through the rear engine mounts. There is no direct earthing of the frame to the battery.
I would go with Kiwicol's suggestion and put a ring terminal on the earth wire. Easy and clean solution!
Quote from: Andre on Sunday, 05 April 2020, 09:29 PM
As far as I know there is not one thing on the 14 that is earthed to the frame. The spark plugs are earthed to the engine, from there through the big earth wire directly to the battery. Every other electrical component is wired to the big earth wire (from the engine) via the connector close to the battery. The frame is earthed through the rear engine mounts. There is no direct earthing of the frame to the battery.
I would go with Kiwicol's suggestion and put a ring terminal on the earth wire. Easy and clean solution!
I assume not using local earths is to get over the differential in each earths resistance - my Triumph Thunderbird would flash all the dashboard lights once the engine warmed up due to the normal earth location becoming high resistance (from new). So smart move by Suzuki. :)
Well the relay system works a treat. Now l can go out to the shed hit the horn and the 14 sounds like a truck. Do look a bit fugly and had to tweek the brackets as they did foul on full lock. Will see how they go.
At least another 16 days before l can ride it :furious:
Well done Col. Glad you like them. If you get sick of not looking good the supertone i fitted look good, need extra paint, sound like a small truck. Quite loud.
Quote from: grog on Monday, 06 April 2020, 05:20 PM
Well done Col. Glad you like them. If you get sick of not looking good the supertone i fitted look good, need extra paint, sound like a small truck. Quite loud.
Grog, these things are ear splitting and I love em !! :boogie:
Can myself getting a cuff around the ear from the bride if I use them tooo much with her on the back. :wife:
May have to support them with a cable tie as they could vibrate.
Even my daytime running lights wired from the other horn work.
What level decibel do you think Col :facepalm: :doh: :whatever:
GSX, the Supertones are 118 decibel. Thats the specs on Hella site. The ebay copies are exact same horn, just 1/2 the price.
Quote from: grog on Tuesday, 07 April 2020, 05:52 PM
GSX, the Supertones are 118 decibel. Thats the specs on Hella site. The ebay copies are exact same horn, just 1/2 the price.
Just had mine delivered from china - in quarantine in the garage for next 7 days - then a coat of black hammerite after reading the reports on here of rust forming :)
Quote from: GSXKING on Tuesday, 07 April 2020, 05:44 PM
What level decibel do you think Col :facepalm: :doh: :whatever:
Cannot say, they would have been on a secondhand front cut l got to tepair something, l would have kept them after seeing the Klaxon brand name.
Lets just say you brace yourself when testing.
Wifey came up to the shed to see what was happening
Down side is they are a bit heavy and not pretty......oh well, never mind :boogie2:
Are they too big to hide elsewhere possibly ?????? :whatever:
Quote from: GSXKING on Wednesday, 08 April 2020, 09:02 PM
Are they too big to hide elsewhere possibly ?????? :whatever:
Why hide greatness :grin: :grin: :grin:
Been looking at adding some louder horns/klaxton to the 14 and this thread has been great.
Had a mate that added an old spinning up siren to his bike, sounded like a Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber and cleared EVERYTHING off the road in front of him :happy1: