Tong.Y

I BOUGHT A CHEAP EBAY JDM SPORT SMOKY TINT TACHOMETER
AND THE THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE PRETTY BAD AND NOT VERY DESCRIPTIVE
THE WIRING ARE ALSO SHORT SO I'M PLANNING TO HOTWIRE THEM, BUT I DONT KNOW WHAT TO HOTWIRE THE WIRES TO SO PLEASE HELP ME OUT
AND IT'S A 12-VOLT NEGATIVE GROUND....

WIRING COLORS ARE
A-GREEN-DISTRIBUTOR OR ECU
B-BLACK-NEGATIVE GROUND 12V
C-RED-IGNITION OR ECU
ORANGE-BATTERY POSITIVE


I'LL GET UP THE PICTURE OF THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTION ASAP

Tong.Y

HELP PLEASE

Linked

gotta search dude, i dont know myself but im pretty sure this is a popularly covered topic on h-t AND google

Jdmglenn

so one wire to switched 12v, one to constant 12v, one ground, and one tach signal

Tong.Y

i dont even knoe my self i thinkg one is for light or power, one's for signal, ground, and ignition when started.. and i dont even have a gauge pod yet

thecruzs2007@yahoo.com

ok this is how it goes.. the green wire goes to a blue wire inside your engine bay..its located where the master cylinder and clutch resivor is. thats where it was on my civic. the red you can wire it to your fuse box under your dash.. you dont need the orange wire.. and obviously the black is ground..

thecruzs2007@yahoo.com

damn if you lived closer i would give you a pod to put it in..

Randokuky

Most gauges are color coded for dum dums like us, more than likely it goes like this


WIRING COLORS ARE
A-GREEN-DISTRIBUTOR OR ECU
B-BLACK-NEGATIVE GROUND 12V
C-RED-CONSTANT 12v
ORANGE-ILLUMINATION

hannslebo

I bought the small 30 dollar SUNPRO tach from autozone. How I did mine on a 95 dx b16.

ILLUMINATION AND CONSTANT - wired into fuse panel under the steering wheel.

GROUND - something metal under there

SIGNAL - blue wire in the engine bay










ive had no problem with it. i have pics if ya need them

Rigginit

All wires can be found at the fuse box (Assuming you don't want your tach to dim with the dimmer switch).

The signal wire is blue and runs to a plug just under the center of the fuse box. If you haven't already installed it, I can get you a pic of it. The power and illumination can be obtained through the "Option" ports and recommended it goes through an inline fuse. Ground would go to the metal bracing that is bolted into the kick panel

If you wanted it to dim with the lights ... you would simply run the illumination wire to the back of the dimmer switch to the wire that adjusts with the dimmer. One adjusts the ground and one adjusts the power ... make sure you tap the power side or the dimming effect will be reversed (Dash lights dim while gauge is bright and vice versa)

Tong.Y

anyone have a single pod for sale? LHD or on the steering column would be great.
price $10 and down

Tong.Y

yea i would appreciate it if you had it up and it would be much easier for moe

Tong.Y

post pictures and procedure for me, i'd appreciate it, but mine doesn't have a blue wire so it might be confusing

hannslebo

PIC ONE - red and white (constant and illumination) are ran into fuse panel below steering wheel. I wired them into the wipers (20) and back up light (10)

PIC TWO - wired into blue wire coming from distributor.


and you know how to do the ground.

Rigginit

No reason for the extra work of running the tach wire all the way into the motor bay at the distributor. And it's never a great idea hooking wires directly to the fuses. It works but if you get the wrong prong of the 2 on the fuse then you will be running an unfused source.

Here's the fuse box:


Here is the Pin in the plug labeled on the fuse pic (looking at the plug as you are in the fuse box pic. It's a Blue wire):


Using a wire with inline fuse in them. Connect the ignition and the illumination wires to the respective wires in the "Options" plugs. If they do not have any current wires in them (As the plugs labeled A & B do not) simply use a female spade terminal to connect it. (Nothing will connect to A & B. they are simply used to show Option ports look like without any plug/wire in them.

Ground wire goes to metal near the kick panel.

Edit: Sorry so small on the letters... they looked Huge in each pic until i actually posted haha)

speedooo

Power-use the cig lighter
Ground-any bolt under the dash that goes into metal
Signal-blue wire going into cluster

Tong.Y

can't really see the second picture, its mostly dark

speedooo

What is the point of tapping into the signal out in the engine bay? The wire goes to the cluster...just splice into it there. It's a cleaner installation

heeltoehonda

X2, Random wire in the engine bay doesn't look so attractive.

Tong.Y

would it be the same for 94+ integra's?

heeltoehonda

It should be

Tong.Y

oka i need help with the signal wire as soon a possible.
is there any other location behind the kick panel where i can hot wire the signal wire to?
i can't seem to find what to hot wire the signal wire to and i dont want to link the wire into the engine bay...

heeltoehonda

What do you mean signal wire? The one that's supposed to be connected to your dizzy?

Tong.Y

yea, the green tach signal wire

heeltoehonda

When I did mine on my old civic, I ran it through the engine bay and just tucked it away so it was hidden. I don't know of any other way to do it.

When I got the civic I have now, I didn't want to use an aftermarket tach, so I went and bought a gauge cluster with a tach built in, it's so much better.