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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 09:46 AM
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Well I've searched and searched and now have given up. I've got a small 3'' tach I want to wire on to my dx.... its just a basic tach so i can rpm and what im at on the highway. I don't want to wire off the distributor... I rather do it at the ecu but I do not know which wire to splice into.
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 09:57 AM
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Whats wrong with wiring it off the distributor? Thats what we all have done. I wouldnt even know where to begin wiring it up to the ECU. Whats the added benefit hacking into the ECU wiring instead?
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Old Nov 2, 2006 | 11:01 PM
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Its alot easyer to wire from inside of the car rather than to send a wire threw the firewall to run off the distributor wiring.
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Old Nov 3, 2006 | 12:23 AM
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Actually only takes like 5 mins to go from the distributor to inside the car to your tach. And if it's that big of a deal I'm sure you could find some existing loom to route the wire through as close as you can to the firewall opening.
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Old Nov 3, 2006 | 08:56 AM
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I still rather do it from the inside of the car.. its so much easyer imo. I've done it on all my Toyota's I just don't have my Honda book yet (its being shiped from ebay)
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Old Nov 3, 2006 | 12:03 PM
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Stop being lazy, cut the ******* wire on the diz. and ******* splice it in

If you dont know what your doing, and never worked with an ECU before, then dont go hooking wires up to it
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Old Nov 3, 2006 | 01:11 PM
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I spliced my dizzy. just run it through with some existing wiring harnesses. Not hard, and it's alot more reliable.
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Old Nov 4, 2006 | 01:49 PM
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It's not being lazy... I have enough damn wires in my engine bay already.. I prefer not taping into the wires from the distributor from the engine bay, I rather do it from inside of the car where those wires connect to the ecu. Anybody know which wire?
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Old Nov 4, 2006 | 02:18 PM
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Just take the cluster apart and use the blue wire from the cluster. I would think that would be easier to do but if you got to go to the ecu I am sure its a pure blue wire. Waht yaer car ecu you got?
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Old Nov 4, 2006 | 03:46 PM
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Or you can just get a tach from a Civic LX or a Civic/CRX Si. It should fit right in and now you'll have a tach

Otherwise I'd just use the blue wire behind the cluster... OR... use a multimeter to figure out which wire that is at the ECU.
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