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Have you ever had the urge to harass half-naked girls while driving around after getting out of the "club" or whatever? Have you ever wanted to actually YELL at the motherfucker who is in your way instead of using the plain old horn? Have you ever wanted to scare the shit out of pedestrians as you roll slowly past, late at night, whispering death threats at them? Really? Me too! Making a PA system is easy, fast, and can be fun as hell. The first thing you need is a CB radio WITH PA CAPABILITIES. You can get these off Ebay for 10 to 20 bucks. I got mine for eight or something. Should look something like this. If yours doesn't come already hooked up with a cigarette lighter adapter, you're going to have to wire it into the fuse box. It's not hard. Just send me an email and I'll let you know how to do it. By the way, this was a reinstall of this device, which is why, for example, the speaker horn is partially melted. You learn a couple things the first time you do this. Namely, don't leave the horn unattached to anything while you take corners too fast. It will eventually land on the header or exhaust manifold and melt all to shit. Luckily, mine just looks cooler now, while still functioning just fine. Make sure you electrical tape it to something solid (I used my CAI) or bolt it down. Otherwise you'll end up like me, wondering why your hood is smoking and your car smells like burning plastic. Bad.
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The next few items you'll need will connect the speaker horn and the CB radio. You're going to need some speaker wire (I got 16 gauge), some connectors that look like the ones pictured here, and an 1/8th inch male audio plug. Hooking up the audio plug will be pretty easy to figure out. Just make sure you know which wire you have connected to the negative terminal, so you don't get them mixed up later. If you got the right speaker wire, there should be numbers and shit that are melted into the plastic, once every few feet, and only on one of the wires. You can use this guide to keep track of which wire is hooked up to which terminal. Also, connect the opposite "sex" connectors onto the negative and positive wires coming out of the speaker horn. If you connect the same kind of connectors to both ends of each wire, you won't be able to plug them together...duh.
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Now, once you have the audio plug on one end of the speaker wire and the connectors on the other, you need to feed the wire down (audio plug end first), from the corner of the passenger side of the car where the hood bolts to the body, through the hollow, plastic body panel, into the cabin. The picture you see shows where to feed the wire down into the body panel from the top. You can see here where the wire will come out on the other end. Now, just plug the audio jack into the back of the CB radio, making sure it's in the "PA" hole, not the "Ext" hole, and mash the connectors on the speaker wires and horn wires together. Turn the CB on, make sure it's in the "PA" position on the front, and see if it works. If it doesn't, try switching the wires around at the connection between the speaker wire and horn. You probably got the polarity backwards...dumbass. If you're still not getting any sound, you might have messed up the wiring for the audio plug. Mess around with stuff until it works. You are now ready to start on a long, grating, illegally loud career of public harassment, beligerence, and general annoyance. Oh, and speaking of illegal...don't use this near cops. You are not that cool. Only I am that cool...obviously.
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