| Author | Message | ||
     Froggy |
Ok there are 8 billion threads on this for the Ulysses, but I can’t find any for the Lightning series. Looks simple enough, I just don’t know if I have enough room to fit the damn thing in. Has anyone done this yet? | ||
| Henry_the_8th |
I've been wanting to do the same. I thought I had read before about mounting the compressor separately under the seat and the horn in the stock location connecting the two with a piece of hose. I could be wrong though, it happens frequently. | ||
| Lost_in_ohio |
I can't figure out to mount it. You need to mount the air compressor exactly the way it says in the directions otherwise it will fail very quickly. | ||
| Saintly |
Froggy, This is the horn you need! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP2MgvEsBVY | ||
| Jaydub |
thats great - the look on peoples faces is priceless how about the Dukes of Hazzard Dixie one? no where to mount it - too bad - that would be something  | ||
| Glitch |
backpack?  | ||
| Marksm |
I've tried to mount one but there's not enough room under the flyscreen. Even taken apart and trimmed it doesn't fit. I don't want to mount the compressor under the airbox because I'm not too sure how the dealer would respond to that if I needed warranty work. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I met a guy up at The Lookout a couple of weeks ago, and he had a very interesting solution to the issue of a compressor on a bike with air horns. He had a small tank of liquid propane attached to his dual airhorns on his vintage KZ1100. Because propane compresses into a liquid, expanding into a gas upon release, he's able to use the horns for a very long time before having to refill the tank. The horns blasted with a mighty tone, and require no power from the battery. He said propane compresses 660 times more than air. Kind of an interesting approach, I thought. Now that I think of it, I should have snapped a picture of his setup. d'oh! | ||
| Froggy |
Ok guys, thank you for the input. Anyone know of an alternative that would work? Pwnzor, that sounds cool. If you bump into him again please get more info. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I will definitely pick his brain if I see him again. His horns were LOUD like a damn train was coming through. Like a ship's fog horn or something. | ||
| Tx05xb12s |
When I had the S front end on my bike I had my Stebel Nautilus Airhorn mounted behind the flyscreen, but had to switch to a X model flyscreen to get enough room to do it. When I bought the horn last year, a fellow badwebber was nice enough to email me pics of how he separated the compressor from the horn and mounted the horn in the stock location and the compressor under the airbox cover attached with high pressure hose. | ||
| Henry_the_8th |
I've been thinking about some kind of horn upgrade since I bought my bike. Has anyone tried an older Cadillac horn? Those are loud, kinda boat sounding. | ||
| Fullpower |
Greetings from Alaska. Have not been on the Badweb for a while. Distracted by Motocross racing all summer, combatpistol competition in Fall, and now we are Ice racing. So tucked away in the Garage I have a STebel Nautilus compact airhorn mounted on the right side of 2004 XB12S. right above the exhaust header, seems to fit alright, I will try to make a photo tomorrow for you. | ||
| Dogdaze |
With a little modding to both the horn and compressor, I was able to squeeze it all under the flyscreen - determined 'cause I just wasn't happy with it mounted any where else on the bike. 1 pop off horn from compressor 2 dremel off horn 'wings' 3 dremel off protusions around compressor air inlet 4 glued an elbow into horn & ran fuel line hosing 5 removed old horn mtg bracket and flattened it leaving a slight inward bend 6 remounted bracket and affixed compressor to it (used the bracket mounting bolt to attach horn relay) 7 pushed wires, relays, cables, etc. out of way so horn fits flush up against key cylinder 8 I wrapped some thin black rubber sheet material around the compressor and on the right side my relays (flasher, headlight strobe, SS lights) to keep things from rattling Being mounted behind the windscreen hasn't affected the db's nearly as much as I'd feared. Love the sound!    | ||
| Froggy |
Awesome! I will bug you if i have any questions when i do this. | ||
| Marksm |
That's tight.. is the horn just sitting there or mounted somehow? Did you cut the mounting boss off of the compressor? (Message edited by marksm on February 12, 2008) | ||
| Dogdaze |
Yes, cut off the mounting boss for it to fit in there. Drop me a PM with your email and I can send you the first pic in full size - you'll see the internals a lot better. The horn is just sitting in there. It's tight enough that I just glued a bit of rubber patch to the front and the windscreen holds it tight. |
