Horn location

[CA Railwhale]

I'm installing a Denali Soundbomb air horn on my F3. After tearing most of the left side and front tupperware panels off trying to trace the sound, I finally broke down and bought a download service manual. The horn is actually under a access panel on the bottom of the Spyder beside the right wheel. Now all I have to do after several hours of fruitless work is run the Spyder up on my ramps and actually do the work. It looks like a easy hour project now; just rerun some wiring, install the relay and mount the horn and compressor inside the cooling plenum so most of the sound will project out the open grill.

My advice is, spend the $24.50 for the service manual and save yourself a lot of wasted work.

 

[SpyderAnn01]

Did someone tell you it was in the left?

 

[CA Railwhale]

no idea

Did someone tell you it was in the left?

I was trying to locate it by the sound which seemed to be coming from the left side.

 

[CA Railwhale]

no idea

Did someone tell you it was in the left?

I was trying to locate it by the sound which seemed to be coming from the left side.

 

[Peteoz]

I was trying to locate it by the sound which seemed to be coming from the left side.

That’s a bad stutter you’ve got there, Railwhale .

Yeah, I left my stock horn where it was, used the wiring, and stuffed my Wolo in the space between the frunk and the dash. Works a treat :thumbup:

Pete

 

[CA Railwhale]

grill

That’s a bad stutter you’ve got there, Railwhale .

Yeah, I left my stock horn where it was, used the wiring, and stuffed my Wolo in the space between the frunk and the dash. Works a treat :thumbup:

Pete

Yep, I didn't notice that it had posted. When I was removing tupperware trying to locate the horn, I pulled off the grill and found there is a large air plenum for the radiators. If there is anything solid enough to mount the horn and compressor in there it looks like an ideal location. Almost all the sound from the horn will focus forward. I'll probably work on it tomorrow.

 

[CA Railwhale]

finished

Well it's done. Four hours plus time to put the tupperware back on, but it's worth it. No more roadrunner beep beep. I can recommend the horn, but certainly get the two piece one. That allows you to place the compressor one place and the horn another. The sound is amazing, very load and the tone sounds like a Italian sports car so it gets your attention. One thing to be aware of is to take care in locating both the compressor and the horn because they only give you about two feet of air hose, if I had been able to find a longer length of hose I could have cut at least an hour off the installation time. I mounted the compressor on the bracket from the Can Am horn and placed the horn itself in the plenum chamber for the fan angled down and to the right so water doesn't accumulate in the air chamber. I was able to use the two thin pieces of steel Can Am used to mount the stock horn to fabricate two mounts for the new horn and it's light enough that the plastic floor of the plenum chamber easily supports it. Anyone else could do it just by removing the grill and the access panel on the bottom by the right wheel and cut quite a bit of time off the job. Get the plug and play wiring kit and things go well electrically.