Beep, beep!

[Mike Hausner]

I've looked through the CR manual and I can't find anything on where to mount the horns. The body is not on so I don't have a good idea of where to install them and not have an interference problem. Where have other CR owners installed them?
Next question: Anyone out there installed fresh air vents to the footwell area? What did you use? How did you set it up?
MH

[Double Venom]

Mike,
I install the horns on the front two frame rails, directly behind the radiator mounting hoop. Dont know where Don mounts em ??

Fresh air vents to the foot wells? My opinion-bad idea. All you get is hot air from the headers, unless of course that's what you are looking for

DV... PS mount them AFTER the body is on..beep-beep!

[Excaliber]

Hot air is about right! I had the "fresh air vents" in my Austin Healey. From the front grill, along side the motor into the top of the foot box. Both sides. The "exhaust" side was a killer hot, the other side "just" unbearable.

Worthless! They pick up so much heat along the way, whats the point?

Ernie

[427 S/O]

I didn't install a horn!, just pat the throttle......On the vents I cut two 1/8" aluminum plates the same size as the top of the foot boxes, cut a 3" hole in the plates and welded in a 3"X3" aluminum tube that sticks up into the engine compartment, cut a 3 1/8"round piece of aluminum, bolted on a small hinge and made a flapper for inside the foot box with a cable pull, picked up two 6'X3" vent hoses from NAPA and ran them from the front air vents. A little labor intensive but with hot Georgia summers, you need them.
The short distance the hoses run from the wheel well to the foot box, you will need to insulate, I used the aluminum covered bubble wrap.

[Jack21]

Horns? Anywhere you like where they won't get in the way of anything else. Just be sure to run a ground wire from the horn frame if you mount it to the body.

Footwell air? Not necessary. First off, ceramic coat your headers (or preferably the entire exhaust) so you're not generating as much heat in the engine compartment. All your plastic, and rubber parts will last longer. Second, use the carpet padding CR sent you for patterns only. Don't install it in the car. Use double faced aluminum padding (about $40 a roll from Summit, only need one roll) for the footwells and trans tunnel. Single faced aluminum padding for the rest of the carpeted area. Local Trak, Pep Boys sells it as Van and RV insulation, $20/roll along with the 3M spray adhesive you need to install padding, and carpet.

Result, no roasted tootsies from engine heat or exhaust. In fact, footwells don't even get warm unless you turn the heater on.