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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 07:53 PM
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anyone have any problems hooking up a tac and a msd rpm box...just did one and the rpms on the tac (autometer) and the rpm box dont match the stock one. Not even near eachother. Stock one reads 800-900 autometer and msd box read 300-400
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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 08:07 PM
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It seems our LS1's put out a 4 cylinder tach signal. set the MSD box to the 4cyl setting and like on my autometer tach, you have to snip the 2 small looped wires in half to get the tach to read as a 4 cylinder vehicle. Your RPM's should match then
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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 09:35 PM
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i have the same problem and i cut the wires and it didnt help at all.now the rpms are higher
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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 10:26 PM
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could be hooked up off the wrong wire. Mine is fine that way. I have a 98 and I know the pin outs are slightly different on my pcm so maybe thats it.
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