i just got this monster 5ince autometer cobalt rpm gauge for my ek now i need help installing it anyone got directions?

 

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You sure you want to do that? Why not install a nice clean oem cluster with a tach, its a plug and play install

 

take it back to autozone...i work at autozone and laugh at people whenever they buy one of these its retarded...and you can find the answer to ur question in the faq's if your willing to look

 

bump thanx for the smart *** remarks haha idk i think its pretty kool ahaving the shift light cause i tend to bounce off the rev limiter whenever i try to race my buddys haha i race with loud music

 

Who the freak races listening to music at all?!?! Even at that its not exactly hard to race without a tach even you can't hear a thing. Run the car flat out, note the speed at which it hits the rev limiter in each gear, shift a little before that speed. And yeah 5" tachs look ridiculous.

 

If you were smart, you'd be able to hook up an existing dash light to act as a shift light like many others have.

Those big monster tach's in a regular street civic make me laugh, and think rice

 

I agree 5 inch tach is a terrible idea.
Just get a stock cluster with a tach built in.
Return the other one because it honestly is a bad idea.

Not flaming on you but you have to stop and think... a shift light...for a honda...in the street...on a 5 INCH TACH! C'mon dude seriously?

 

Maybe you should just stop street racing, it gets people killed.

 

Not to mention every car thief that walks by your car will take a mental note that maybe your car has something under the hood worth stealing. Seriously take the advice of all these other posts and find yourself a nice OEM cluster. If you want a shift light, by a cheap one off Ebay (they all do the same thing, doesn't really matter where you buy it) and install it somewhere a bit stealthy, like in one of your air vents. You'll be able to race with your loud gangsta music and no one will even know its there.

 

if you must install that grandfather clock the sensor or pickup wire on the tach goes to the blue wire just beside the thick black/yellow wire on the distributor. if you dont know were the other wires on the tack go let me know

 

you bumped your thread after 5 min????

READ MY SIGNATURE!

 

On the EK you have to splice it from the existing tach wire on the back of the cluster. i cant remember the exact reasoning at the time but the blue wire from the distrib doesnt work like it does for other gens . I had one for about a week and took it out.

 

Minus whale wear that **** on your neck.

 

That really only applies to '99 - '00 OBD2B civics (and '00 - '01 integras) that take their tach signal from the ECU (pin A19) '96 - '98 OBD2A civics get their tach signal from the igniter in the distributor the same as OBD1.

 

Isn't it really up to the individual though. Lots of good points though.

 

you bumped a 2 year old thread just to say that?

 

DONT BUMP OLD THREADS!

 

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