I have been enamored by the air horns the Italian sports cars used in the 80's (Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, etc...) and I bought a 20 year old set of trumpet air horns from an old Maserati for $160 on eBay a few months ago and brought them to Victor at MiniWorks to install for me. He said he would need to make a custom bracket, so I left the horns and compressor with him and, after numerous voicemail messages, he is not returning any of my calls. I have no idea why, but after 5 months of this, I gave up and bought a new set of horns and figured I would do it myself.

I've since learned the manufacturer of these horns is Fiamm, so I bought another set of electric horns from a Ferrari Scuderia for $60, but when they arrived, they are just oridinary horns, sounding very much like the horns the Mini already has. So I re-sold those on eBay and found a new set of horns from Fiamm available, brand new in a package for about $20 and that included tubing, relay and dual trumpets (pvc though, not metal like the previous Maserati's that Victor is still in possesion of).

So, I got them mounted and wired up and they sound exactly like what I was wanting. Check it out:

I had to find a place to mount them where they would not hit the headlights or the headlight washers - with a little help of some L-Brackets from ACE Hardware, it was pretty easy:


I had to drill a hole for the tubing:


Found the perfect place for the compressor to go:


Used an existing hole at the bottom of this plastic housing surrounding the ABS to run the horn wiring to/from the compressor:


Tied the wires up along the way:


Used wire-taps to keep the original horn wiring intact, but disconnected the stock horns and left them mounted in place. So if I ever sell the car or change my mind, all I have to do is plug them back in:


Now I really feel like a fool when I realized I could have purchased similar horns from the Harbor Freight Tools store down the street from my house for $12.99:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=40134
or, the exact same Fiamm horns from JCWhitney for $27.99:
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/P...002553/c-10101

 

Any way you can post a sound clip of the horns?

 

This is a sound file of an actual Lamborghini horn, and this is exactly what the horns I just installed sound like:
http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/22...UNDDOGS_Au.mp3

and a short video clip of one honking:
http://www.careyholzman.com/untitled.wmv

 

Thanks for posting the sound/video clips.Interesting sounding horns...yes, they sound louder than the stock horns, but I'm really wanting the horns that are "semi-truck ah-wooga-wooga" sounding.Not sure if it's even possible, but I'd like to install really loud horns as "auxilliary horns" and use the switch blank that's next to the e-brake to activate them as needed.

 

Everything is possible...