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Anybody In The Orange County Area Who Knows How To Install A Tachometer With Shift Light? I'll Pay For Labor, How Much?
Tachmoeter Installation?
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you can do it yourself. why pay if you can learn?
theres usually 4 wires. pos/neg/illumination/coil
pos=can go to the fuse panel located under drivers oh dashboard.
neg=can go to any screw/bolt that attaches to the frame of the car
illumination=i hooked mines up to my dimmer switch on the dashboard
coil=run the wire threw the firewall to the negitive side (solid blue i believe) of the coil. theres only 2 wires.(coils located rite next to the distibutor..distibutor=the place your spark plug wires go to. the distributor is connected to the coil by a spark plug wire)
after you hook pos/neg/coil wires it should work.
theres usually 4 wires. pos/neg/illumination/coil
pos=can go to the fuse panel located under drivers oh dashboard.
neg=can go to any screw/bolt that attaches to the frame of the car
illumination=i hooked mines up to my dimmer switch on the dashboard
coil=run the wire threw the firewall to the negitive side (solid blue i believe) of the coil. theres only 2 wires.(coils located rite next to the distibutor..distibutor=the place your spark plug wires go to. the distributor is connected to the coil by a spark plug wire)
after you hook pos/neg/coil wires it should work.
anyone of you guys know about the difference though in readouts between the aftermarket and the OEM gauge? for instance how much of a difference should there be. my oem dash is a 92 hatchback but my motor is a b18c1. so the redline is different, but theres a difference between readouts from my oem gauge and my aftermarket tach. If i wire the coil to where xxsenceo89x said to, should the readouts be alot closer? i have it wired to sumwhere else right now and the aftermarker gauge is about 1k less then the oem.
oem = 5000
aftermarket = 4000
oem = 5000
aftermarket = 4000
wot if i ain't got a dimmer switch, where should i wire the lights in?
well my car dont have a dimmer, uk.
Where is the dimmer switch?
the dimmer switch should be down to your left below your left air vent... mines always plop right above my left knee...
in terms of wiring, there are a lotta threads on this already but basically find the tach check in the upper corner of the engine bay, near the windshield, on the driver's side of a USDM civic its there... the tach check and the coil wires are both blue, sometimes blue with a white or black stripe i believe but your GREEN tach signal wire goes there, i would crimp the two together with a butt connector and not just electrical tape the s**t outta it b/c i did that and it caused my stock tach to operate spuratically... turned out it was a short somewhere? the RED wire for 12V power can be wired to your fuse box *underneath the dash on a USDM, im not familiar with cars from the UK, but it can be wired for 12V ignition there... I just wired mine to my ignition source where my head unit is wired to (a red wire as well), illumination WHITE wire to dimmer switch, and ground to a reliable chassis ground source. Shouldnt be that hard man, just find where all these things would be on your car thats on ours but it shouldnt be that diferent.
I just removed my 5" tach because it was extremely pointless with a stock engine and like 100 horsepower
...... i would just go for a lil tach without a shift light if i had to do it again.. GL on the install 
in terms of wiring, there are a lotta threads on this already but basically find the tach check in the upper corner of the engine bay, near the windshield, on the driver's side of a USDM civic its there... the tach check and the coil wires are both blue, sometimes blue with a white or black stripe i believe but your GREEN tach signal wire goes there, i would crimp the two together with a butt connector and not just electrical tape the s**t outta it b/c i did that and it caused my stock tach to operate spuratically... turned out it was a short somewhere? the RED wire for 12V power can be wired to your fuse box *underneath the dash on a USDM, im not familiar with cars from the UK, but it can be wired for 12V ignition there... I just wired mine to my ignition source where my head unit is wired to (a red wire as well), illumination WHITE wire to dimmer switch, and ground to a reliable chassis ground source. Shouldnt be that hard man, just find where all these things would be on your car thats on ours but it shouldnt be that diferent.
I just removed my 5" tach because it was extremely pointless with a stock engine and like 100 horsepower
...... i would just go for a lil tach without a shift light if i had to do it again.. GL on the install