Good Place to Mount A Tach?
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Yea I was thinking high on the A-Pillar for the reasons you stated. And yes....I know my car has a factory tach.. But like he said, slow and inaccurate, and a shiftlight isnt a bad idea even in an auto car if u ask me. Might toss in a ratchet shifter eventually.
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Originally Posted by ABA383
You can go old school around the wheel with a big black zip tie. It doesn't look bad and is easily removed. Depends on what size tach you want to use...
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Did that in my 68 Nova, not sure if it would look good in a 4th gen Z. I would say the A pillar. Use zipties to you advantage. How about in the little pocket under the radio? You could make a guage bezel out of aluminum. The only drawback of that is it would not be at eye level.
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I tried the tach thing...and from experience it was cool at first, but you really find out how much you pay attention to your RPM - which isn't much. I think it's a distraction and the only thing you could really benefit from is a shift light, unless your speedometer doesn't work or never will work, and/or you do some road racing or auto-x. Other than that, if you're drag racing things happen to quick to look over/down/up to say "gee looky at that needle, wow " and by the time you look down and back up you've already passed about 300rpm. I've got my rev limiter set at about 2~300 rpm past peak power, so if I hit the rev limiter I know exactly where I was and what to adjust for next time.
Here's where I've got my shift light.
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Here's where I've got my shift light.
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is that shifter photoshopped??
also, I agree I wouldnt mount a huge tach on the dash, go with a 2 1/16 tach on the a pillar if you must, but like you said it has an auto so you really wouldnt need it, plus I think the huge 5" tachs look gross on the dash IMO
also, I agree I wouldnt mount a huge tach on the dash, go with a 2 1/16 tach on the a pillar if you must, but like you said it has an auto so you really wouldnt need it, plus I think the huge 5" tachs look gross on the dash IMO
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Im kind-of a gauge guy. We spend lots of money on that chunk under the hood, I figure why not monitor the thing accurately (Factory Gauges can be Scary Inaccurate)