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Old 01-20-2008, 06:15 AM
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i have a 90 coupe been swap from 4 cyl to 8 cyl i put a 5 inch autometer tach in it and it reads out wrong it readin about double the rpms it should. what could cause this? it doesnt a have a switch for a certain number of cyl. or ay extra wires only the red, white, green, and black
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Old 01-20-2008, 01:01 PM
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Hook the tach signal to the V8 ignition box. The 4cyl will have a higher pulse rate, double in fact, since it has half the number of cylinders.
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