Grover Air Horn - Any experience??

[shipbldr]

Base on my very limited experience, but rather protracted research... I increasingly think its the AMOUNT of air you feed to the horn, not just the PSI that makes a difference.

Grover horns are probably great. It's very difficult to make a bad horn. Not a horn with a bad paint job or bad chrome...(that still sounds good)... that's easy!!

My horn came with a little 3/16th air line. It was ok. Loud. Mildly impressive.

Then I replaced the 3/16 air line with a 3/8 air line, a 5 gallon tank, and the cut the pressure to 70psi. The difference in volume was amazing! (Pain threshold crossed!)

So I think its air volume, not dollar volume, that makes a horn loud.

Tank fed systems will probably always beat out pump fed systems.

Beyond that, there aren't really any moving parts in the horns. The real difference seems to come down to the tone or sound. Three trumpet horns sound better to my ears than two trumpet setups. Four and five trumpet nathan air horns sound even better.

I guess its all a matter of personal taste in the end.

So what do you watch out for?

The #1 hassle air horn owners report: broken air compressor. Just ask around here on the board.

It seems like when people finally get tired of screwing around with cheap broken pumps they buy a viair, arb, or other high-grade pump. It's a little bit more coin... but they're also hassle free.

My 2 cents...