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Reinstalled my Hella Supertones

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:17 am
by Legacy777
I had to take them off when I installed my AWIC, and hadn't put them back on. I fabbed up a bracket and mounted them below the area where the ABS goes. It actually is a very nice fit.

I love fabricating stuff like this from scratch. The plate I was bending wasn't long enough, so I had to bolt on a small brackat at the top.

Horns before
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Horns now
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All the pics
http://www.main.experiencetherave.com/s ... upertones/

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:14 am
by SILINC3R
hey you could hace put a intake in their

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:49 am
by jamal
oh yeah I need to do that too.

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:07 am
by Adam West
That's where I mounted my Siebel compact airhorn only on the other side...Nice!

Also have the supertones behind the grill painted flat black for stealth.

Get outta my way!!

Cheers,

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:55 pm
by 93Leg-c
Josh and Adam, are the Supertones really loud enough to get a truck driver's attention on the highway (as it is advertised to do)?

Adam, how does the Seibel compare to the Hella's in loudness and sound?

Thanks, guys, for your input.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:12 pm
by Adam West
The supertones are loud car horns - think german cars - Mercedes etc. but high pitched.

The seibel horn is an airhorn integrated into a small package/form-factor for motorcycles. It's really loud.

The two are over the top loud...

For example I commute by the Mariners Stadium and stop on an overpass under the retracting stadium roof. The overpass is over frieght train rails. The other day there was a train, it honked it's horn. I honked back. I SWEAR he heard me an honked back at me...We went back and forth a few times...

Oh, and they aren't very expensive.

But both are great options individually or together. Just make sure to mount the Siebel as directed (nearly vertical) or they fail after a time period. Mine is mounted to spec and has been going for over 2 years now...

Cheers,

AW

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:19 pm
by 93Leg-c
Thanks for that info! :D

Hmmm, so which of the two is louder? Is one higher-pitched than the other?

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:21 pm
by Adam West
Siebel is louder

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:23 pm
by 93Leg-c
Thanks again! :D

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:02 am
by shtbxr22
do you have a sound clip?

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:23 am
by Adam West
I might make a video and post on youtube. I have a friend with just supertones in the grill. Probably in a few weeks tho at WCSS10 in Astoria. Horn hijinks will ensue for sure...

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:26 am
by 93Leg-c
A sound clip of both horn systems would be great!

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:49 pm
by Legacy777
The hellas I believe are 140 db.

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:47 pm
by BXSS
I alway used Hella Air-Horns & have never seen/heard these used in my neck of the woods, that said I ordered a set of these yesterday to try to scare slow walking NYC "I have the Right of Way" pedestrians as air horns do not cause a blink over here anymore.

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:37 pm
by HomeSlice
BXSS wrote:I alway used Hella Air-Horns & have never seen/heard these used in my neck of the woods, that said I ordered a set of these yesterday to try to scare slow walking NYC "I have the Right of Way" pedestrians as air horns do not cause a blink over here anymore.
i got my supertones in my grill and it scares the crap out of people

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:35 pm
by Legacy777
They're fucking loud, that's for sure.

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:58 pm
by entirelyturbo
Are they gonna be safe from water puddles there?

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:26 pm
by 93forestpearl
If they cannot handle getting wet, they shouldn't be on a car in the first place. Everything under your hood gets wet at some point.

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:35 pm
by Legacy777
Yeah, they'll probably get wet here and there.....but I don't plan on fjording any small streams.....so I think I should be good. I don't know how they'd like being submerged....hahaha