Lousy horn!
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Lousy horn!
18 Apr 2010 21:47
My '82 KZ750LTD has a lousy horn. It's stock, but it's weak and I hate the tinny little European/Asian toot toot! What loud 12volt horn have any of you folks swapped in?
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Re: Lousy horn!
18 Apr 2010 21:55
I used to have an air horn That was lame Try a car horn?
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Re: Lousy horn!
18 Apr 2010 22:38
Look at these:
Groit’s Garage Horns www.griotsgarage.com
# 77585 Black, Compact Italian Horn, Big Truck Sound.
#77839 Red, Compact Italian Horn.
#77505 Black, Ultra Compact Horn.
#77416 Black/Silver, Super Loud American Horns.
#77573 Red, Super Loud Hella Horns.
Groit’s Garage Horns www.griotsgarage.com
# 77585 Black, Compact Italian Horn, Big Truck Sound.
#77839 Red, Compact Italian Horn.
#77505 Black, Ultra Compact Horn.
#77416 Black/Silver, Super Loud American Horns.
#77573 Red, Super Loud Hella Horns.
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Re: Lousy horn!
19 Apr 2010 02:34
Get Yourself a siren off one of the KZ1000 police models they work great to move folks out of your way when they change lanes on top of you while they're on the cell phone
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Re: Lousy horn!
19 Apr 2010 08:48
I put on a FIAMM low tone Highway Blaster, works great, mounted in the same place. You can always head to the junkyard and get a pair of horns off a Lincoln or F150, those are very loud too.
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Re: Lousy horn!
19 Apr 2010 11:49
you can always tune your original horn there is a set screw on the back of it with a lock nut on it back off the lug nut and adjust it in and out until you get the sound you want use two jumper wires direct from a battery and hook them up to the inputs for the horn and tune away.
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Re: Lousy horn!
19 Apr 2010 18:17
I have a set of these on my 1000. They come with everything you need but a little wire. They are LOUD!
preview.tinyurl.com/139db-horns
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Re: Lousy horn!
19 Apr 2010 19:15
polkat wrote:
Check out this horn comparison:
Horns
My '82 KZ750LTD has a lousy horn. It's stock, but it's weak and I hate the tinny little European/Asian toot toot! What loud 12volt horn have any of you folks swapped in?
Check out this horn comparison:
Horns
1977 KZ650-C1 Original Owner - Stock (with additional invisible FIAMM horn)
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Re: Lousy horn!
19 Apr 2010 20:43
timebomb33 wrote:
I did that, and it went from meep-meep to meep-meep .
:laugh:
you can always tune your original horn there is a set screw on the back of it with a lock nut on it back off the lug nut and adjust it in and out until you get the sound you want use two jumper wires direct from a battery and hook them up to the inputs for the horn and tune away.
I did that, and it went from meep-meep to meep-meep .

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Re: Lousy horn!
26 Apr 2010 11:56
I've thought of doing a Holstein paint job on my LTD-1000 this coming winter. Wonder if I can get a cow-call horn for my Cowasaki.

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