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We just got a 2026 Subaru Crosstrek with a wimpy factory factory horn that just says “excuse me…please”
I chickened out and only got the Psychoblaster V2 instead of a conductors special. I did not want a compressor inside the car to listen to.
Wondering if anyone has tried fitting these into the grill or if I will be the first?
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Yeah, but the Conductor’s Special is on a whole different level 
. Those things freaking hurt my ears. The Psychoblaster V2 is probably the safer choice if you still want something loud without going completely insane.
I have the Conductors Special in my truck. 
Now that I have the Psychoblaster V2 installed in the Crosstrek, I am glad that I did not go with the CS, It just would not have fit.
I was able to do this install with the only modification to any part of the car was splicing into the factory horn wire.
Here is the front end with the bumper cover off, ready to dive in.
This pic shows a convenient hole to mount the compressor.
This pic shows 2 convenient holes just below the black plastic part. These will mount the horn with a custom bracket.
These are the custom parts I had to make. Left is a spacer for the horn bracket since one of the holes on the car is raised, center is the bracket for the horn made from 1x1x1/8 angle iron. The part on the right was made to space the compressor out for clearance of an electrical component.
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This is the horns bolted in place
A better pic showing the horn mounted to the custom bracket.
This is the compressor mounted in place using the existing hole.
Here is a closeup showing how I mounted the compressor using a longer bolt and 3 nuts instead of the spacer shown above.
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The front end with everything installed ready to button it up.
All buttoned up, Sounds way better than the stock horns, I left the stock horns in and connected but you can not hear any part of the stock over the PsychoBlasters.
Bottom line, Wife likes her new horns…ALOT 
Yeah, it will definitely fit. But man, that CS is much louder 
Nicely done on the Psychoblasters install.
Leaving the stock horns connected alongside the PsychoBlasters is a smart way to keep redundancy, though it makes sense the stock ones get drowned out entirely. I’m curious how the wiring was handled to run both sets, since that’s usually the tricky part on a newer platform like the Crosstrek. The fitment looks clean from the photo. Did you have to trim anything behind the bumper, or did everything clear without modification?
The redundancy point is what I keep coming back to, since keeping the stock horns on a separate circuit means a relay issue wouldn’t leave you silent. On fitment, I’d want to know whether those Psychoblasters mount to existing bumper points or need a bracket, because clearing without trimming sounds almost too easy for a Crosstrek front end. Did the installer tap into the factory horn wire for the trigger, or run a fresh switch line? That detail usually decides how reversible the whole job is.
I was the installer.
for the wiring I tapped into the factory horn wire at the horn that is behind the right fog light. I ran that tap wire to the coil of the relay so the extra draw on the horn circuit is very little and the car does not seem to notice it.
As for the mounting, there were zero mods done to the car other than splicing into the horn wire. there were already 2 factory unused holes in the vertical radiator frame that I used to mount the horn. I did have to make a custom mounting bracket out of 1.5 x 1.5 x 1/8 steel angle (that is what I had laying around) There is just enough space between the bumper and the AC condenser to fit the horn bells with no mods to anything. There is about 3/8 inch clearance front and back of the bells. There is a pic of the angle bracket in a post above and another pic showing the 2 holes used to mount it. Those 2 holes are factory holes so no drilling was done. One even conveniently had 8mm threads in it.