On 10/23/2020 6:15 PM, Wade Garrett wrote:
> On 10/23/20 4:34 PM, butler mike wrote:
>> On Friday, September 24, 1993 at 10:56:37 AM UTC-4, Don T. Borowski
>> wrote:
>>> John R Laplante ) wrote:
>>> :
>>> : Big cars have horns that make 'big sounds.' Loud. Full.
>>> : Small cars have horns that make 'small sounds.' "tinny." "beep beep".
>>> :
>>> : I thought of this yesterday when I was driving my big old buick,
>>> : and had a need for the horn. I thought "i'm glad i'm driving this
>>> : car, rather than my Camry." The camry is not a small car, but
>>> : it still has a small car "beep beep" sound...
>>> :
>>> : So.. the question is: what are the determinants of the sound of
>>> : cars? Why do the horns on small cars sound as they are?
>>> : Is it because the engine compartment is smaller? Is the horn
>>> : smaller? Not powered as much? Do new big cars still have
>>> : that sounds that you get from the big old cars?
>>> It is because someone has designed it that way.
>>> To same money (and a bit of weight), a lot of small cars come with just
>>> a single horn. A lot of the old Detroit iron had two horns tuned to
>>> different notes. This is probably the biggest difference in the sound.
>>> The solution is easy. Just go down to the local junk yard, and get
>>> the horns off some old Detroit iron. Wire them up, and get that
>>> good old satisfying sound.
>>>
>>> Donald Borowski WA6OMI Hewlett-Packard, Spokane Division
>>> "Angels are able to fly because they take themselves so lightly."
>>> -G.K. Chesterton
>
> Many people who drive weenie cars do so to virtue signal they are green.
> And the little horn sound fits right in...being polite and not adding to
> noise pollution ;-)
>

L like FIAMM or similar if the stock one isn't sufficient.

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