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Old 01-13-04, 12:38 AM
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my new in-dash tach (pics)

Okay...let me start off by saying that I'm not done. I messed up cutting the gauge cluster early on so I ended up just cutting the **** out of it so I could just slap in in there to test it out. I need to pull the cluster on the parts car and start over.....but heres a look at what it will look like (sorry about the flash):




I got the tach on eBay for cheap....so far it works great:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2452155937
Old 01-13-04, 12:41 AM
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not bad, you really run it that high on a daily bases or is this autoX?
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do the rest of the guages still work? i donot remember if you can take the tach out without losing half of the cluster
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not bad, you really run it that high on a daily bases or is this autoX?
I see 8k everyday, thats for sure
the stock tach has been know to be off and won't go past 8k, so I said what the hell.
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do the rest of the guages still work? i donot remember if you can take the tach out without losing half of the cluster
yeah everything still works
Old 01-13-04, 09:47 AM
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It should look good when cleaned up.
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pretty nice! beats having to look at the a-pillar.
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no offense but that looks sick the way it was put in. you should have bought a tach half the size.
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Good Price.

What do you think of the tach in general? What settings did you make on it for it to work? where did you connect it? What do you think of the shift light?
I need to find something as I can not see the one in the dash at night and have taken my engine higher than I wanted because of it.
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Looks good man.
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It doesnt look abad at all FDracer!

Here is a pic of mine :
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Originally posted by Hades12
Good Price.

What do you think of the tach in general? What settings did you make on it for it to work? where did you connect it? What do you think of the shift light?
I need to find something as I can not see the one in the dash at night and have taken my engine higher than I wanted because of it.
so far the tach works great, no problems with general operation or the shift light. There was no need to hook up the aux shift light...the small LED by the zero is very bright by itself. I basicaly opened up the stock cluster and trimmed anything I had to get it in, then wired the tach as instructed...it was very simple. The guts of the new tach are very compact which made it easy.



I tried to cut up the spare cluster bezel but I messed that one up to...Anyone got a spare cluster?



Karism, yours looks great!

Old 01-14-04, 08:53 PM
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not the prettiest install ever, but that doesnt really matter
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