Alarm horn

My Cobra alarm has it's own horn mounted in the engine bay.

But where it is sited, I want to fit the cruise control motor.

Can I remove the cobra hooter and wire the alarm into the car horns, or must I re-site the Cobra hooter?

Whatever you do make sure it doesn't go off in the night for no reason! I had a car here last year that kept false triggering and often at night. After getting up 4 times in one night to go out to it I saw red and ripped the hooter out of the engine bay. The damned thing still went on hooting with all the wires pulled out of it, albeit slightly more quietly and I had to drop a concrete block on it shut it up. I just hate, REALLY hate car alarms and immobilisers

*mental note not to take my car to CW*

The oem horn sounds very gay, so you would cringe if it did go off. Anyone trying to steal it in a public area would be ridiculed though.

I hasten to add it was my own car.... A quite dreadful Skyline GTS-t that would probably have been unable to make the dual carriageway without AA assistance if someone had nicked it.

Thats ok then

To be fair it tends to be cheapo or badly DIY installed alarms that behave like that. I have had my Clifford on mine for years and its never false alarmed, Works well and integrates into the oem loom.

It does have 'Blackjax' though, so you would hate it

*mental note not to take my car to CW*

 

The oem horn sounds very gay, so you would cringe if it did go off. Anyone trying to steal it in a public area would be ridiculed though.

Gay horn eh

Must remember to put that on my upgrade list

It does go off sometimes, but only when provoked by loud low frequency noises, maybe Chris is a chainsaw snorer?

But that aside, does anyone know if this proposed re-wire is possible?

I would think you could just extend the leads to the sounder? Is cruise control really worth all the hassle though? I think I have used it once in about 15 years, driving through the night to get a ferry from Stranraer. Even then it gave me the willies.

Since modifying the engine, cruise at 100mph is now only around 1mm of pedal depression and cruise at 70mph is around 0.5mm.

With such a fine tolerance, it has become difficult to regulate cruising speed.

My Supra already has the loom, so adding cruise control, is 'plug and play'.

Ultimately, I will redesign the throttle cable ramp, but this 'patch' will do for now.

Why is that, has it got a too big a throttle body or something?

I haven't quite worked it out yet either

It is a standard size throttle body that I have taper reamed from entry to just short of the butterfly.

The only explanation I can come up with is, the cold air ram, plenum, insulation and cold air ventilation are working very well.

Because the air inducted is cooler and denser, there is more of it.

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