Comments on: Hoons’ Horns

By: Nopanegain

Nopanegain — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:29:29 +0000

But it takes the genious of Stephan to point it out to those who are unaware Factotum. Stephen: Keep up the great contributions. More and more I see myself looking for your comments; they are usually spot-on!

By: HEATHROI

HEATHROI — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:30:23 +0000

off the topic a little but a guy I got a ride to work with years ago suffered from road rage.
there is not much funnier than angry guy in an mid 70s civic with pathetic meep meep sounding horn

By: Jeff Puthuff

Jeff Puthuff — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:48:48 +0000

Where you guys been? This site has been around for years.

By: rpn453

rpn453 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:42:21 +0000

Some of those people even had drinks in their hand and didn’t throw them at the car!

I have the small Fiamm horns on my car. I had two sets on my previous car. I don’t honk at other cars that often, but when I do it’s for good reason and I want them to hear it. I don’t want it to sound apologetic like most factory horns.

In university, I once hooked up one of those swearing keychains to a small Rockford amp and bolted an old 6X9 behind my front grille. It didn’t scare anyone, and most people laughed at it.

By: Wulv

Wulv — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:41:16 +0000

My Boss has an Air Horn on his Harley. It isn’t train sounding, more like Tractor Trailer. Crazy loud for a Bike.

By: ZCline

ZCline — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:25:53 +0000

No, it wasn’t anything like that, something more like this:

http://www.duettomotors.com/miata/horns.htm
(I am not affiliated with that site, FYI). Still, they were pretty loud and cheap, and easy to install.

By: Johnny Canada

Johnny Canada — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:07:05 +0000

Interesting, but I’ll stick with Whistle Tips for my car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSOSJ68xOBA

By: Virtual Insanity

Virtual Insanity — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:51:23 +0000

I’ve seen this video before, and I always laugh. On my first turbo car, we did the animal hoon trick. BOV was vented, so we hooked up a duck call…

You get some interesting look when you are cruising through a parking lot in a 1st gen turbo Eclipse, rev, build boost, lift…and get the quack.

By: Stephan Wilkinson

Stephan Wilkinson — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:49:00 +0000

You didn’t have one of these in your Miata, ZCline. The compressor and motor to feed it wouldn’t fit. It’s about the size of a large suitcase.

By: timoted

timoted — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:42:32 +0000

I guess that’s a great product to have….if you’re 16.

By: John R

John R — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:25:15 +0000

LMAO! But, seriously, that’s messed up. You just look like an ass when you use it that way.

By: ZCline

ZCline — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:19:01 +0000

I used to have a set of air horns on my Miata. The reasoning was, the Miata is a little car and doesn’t do well when impacted with a large SUV, so the horns help to show that chatting-on-her-cellphone soccer mom that her Yukon is coming over into my lane. Plus the stock Miata horns are pretty wimpy.

I only used it to scare one biker, I swear!