ok i install my tack all the wires r in i got the ground in and the green to the blue wire on the distributer. so i turn on the car and it's idling at about 3 grand. so i'm like oh i haven't cut the blue or brown wires yet to calibrate for my 4 cylinder. so i cut the blue wire first turn on the car and its now at 6 grand idle. then i cut the brown and its at 9 or 10 grand i dont know my tach only goes up to 8 and it was way past 8. so y is this not reading right?

 

what yr civic do you have?

 

2000 civic se d16y7 engine

 

come on anyone?

 

come on this is really annoying having my tach in but not being able to use it. doesn't anyone know anything about tachs?

 

Mind telling us which aftermarket tach you are trying to install? And have you looked at the manufacturers website for a pinout?

 

its an autometer tach. sport comp monster tach. and i have been to the website. its says absolutely nothing about my problem

 

Maybe you should have bought a tach for a 4 cylinder engine?

 

try connecting the brown wire and leaving the blue cut or vise verse whatever one u cut first connect and leave the other one off

 

shakes head

wtf is wrong with people these days.
monster tachs are gay. therefore I refuse to help.

Prepare the flame suit

 

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wtf is wrong with people these days.
monster tachs are gay. therefore I refuse to help.

Prepare the flame suit</TD></TR></TABLE>

Nice attitude.

 

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this is what happens when you dont read the instructions..and yes the website does explain it&gt;&gt;&gt; in the instructions which you can download..

go here http://hp.autometer.com/instru....html


and download the instructions.. you will notice it tells you how to make it work properly... hope this helps.

 

clearly none of u have read my question. all the wires r connected according to the directions and i tried cutting the brown and blue wires every which way. and still it does not read right.

 

you will have to cut the brown and orange to make the 4 cylinder read.. not the blue

 

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this is what happens when you dont read the instructions..and yes the website does explain it&gt;&gt;&gt; in the instructions which you can download..</TD></TR></TABLE>

Clearly you don't know how to read an answer or instructions; because cxSHOE gave you the way of finding your answer. Put the Blue wire back together and cut the orange wire.

 

there is no orange wire. its just brown and blue

 

these are the colors that come in ALL auto meter tachs.

gray &gt; goes to engine ground
white. 12v dash dimmer switch&gt;&gt;&gt; or connect with red wire to have it on all the time

red &gt;&gt;12v positive

black&gt; negative battery ground

green &gt;&gt; to to coil tach signal


orange & brown control your cylinder type

so yes there is an orange wire... you have to look for it... maybe you have to take it apart or the other person cut it off... but it will be there.

 

http://hp.autometer.com/instru...b.pdf

you will see your model number at the top of the pdf... if you dont see the orange and brown wires you will need to open it up because they are there.


im done....


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so then how come my instructions that came with it say nothing about an orange wire? and theres no grey either. just white red green and black. the 2 wire loops sticking out the back r blue and brown.

 

cut the wires and then install is what my directions said to do maybe you fried something inside

 

oh and if u go on autometeres website in techtips under 1-4pulse question u'll see that the orange wire was replaced with the blue as of may 1st. so there is no orange wire in my tach

 

Just throw it away and get a pivot tach or somthing, autometer suck and there so ******* huge (screaming RICE). Or hey just keep the stock one, it works fine (+/- 150), especially with a stock d16y7.

 

my car didn't come with a tach.

 

i got the 3.5inch with black housing so it matches all of my dash pannel stuff.. i don't need my swap getting stolen because i have a 5 inch tach

 

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what does this have to do with anything? its ike ppl can come in here and start talking out of there *** whenever they want