I have been wanting to do this for a loooooooonnnnnggggg time. I picked up a little old Smart car the other weekend & its going to get Horned! I cant wait to get started on it, the weather here is starting to warm up, so watch this space.
Plans are for a trusty set of Shockers, possibly fed by a 228vx setup due to being compact & I need to get the baby pram in the back!
Horns will be located easily behind the front panels of the car.
Iām starting her young. My daughter Daisy checking quality control lol:D
So this morning I decided to have a dummy run to see just how hard it was going to be to fit Horns to the Smart.
I could not believe just how easy it was to strip off the front of the car.
There are 5 screws down each side door pillar, inside of door, 1 x screw either side behind a triangle panel (Aerial), 2 x screws behind the grill, then the whole front pops off, after simply disconnecting the indicators & fog lamps.
So is my granddaughter. Iām amazed how stenchful she can be sometimes.:eek:
I can understand it from an old rotting out fart like me, but not an 8 year old girl.
So the wifeās stock āMeep Meepā horn on her smart started playing up, so I had to undo the 14 screws holding the front end on to get at the Horn.
Once sorted I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to try the shockers out for size and see if I would be able to get them behind the front crash bar.
So, with the aid of my trusty angle grinder I carefully hacked off a section of the lower plastic radiator frame and a section out of the plastic front cover under the car.
Next I had to take the angle grinder to the Shockers and take off one corner of the plastic mounting bracket on the Horn. I will probably be using cable ties (zip ties) to fix the Horns.
I think the longest one s going to be sticking down by 75mm, if it looks really stupid when I put it all on, I will simply swap out the longest Shocker for the next size down and sacrifice some of the deep tone:Dā¦ We will see!
So this weekend coming I hopefully will be completing the install with a 228vx tank and compressor in the boot:D
Ok so itās been a while, but the project has taken a step closer to being finished.
My Mitsi L200 decided to snap a balance belt & then in turn get caught up in the cam belt, throwing the timing out slightly & snapping the inlet rockers:mad:
So while I am waiting for it to get fixed, I got the Smart car off the drive, got it MOTād & put some road tax on it and I am now flying about in that for the time being, which is really quite fun! Canāt obviously get all my tools in the car for work, but I can get enough in to get me by.
Anyway so I have am going to drop the Shockers off the truck (they are sqwarking a little) then clean them up and try some fine tuning to bring them back on track, then put them on the Smart car:D
Anyway, without further ado, hereās a few more pics of the tank being built and put into position etc etc etc
Just enough room