any suggestions on where to put a shift light?
I purchased the Auto meter shift light (WITHOUT that hidious 5" tach.. whew!)

just wondering if anyone has one in their car, and where they put it.



OH yeah. what pill settings did you get?

i got the 6000 set (6k, 6.2k, 6.4k.6.6k, 6.8k)

 

I just ordered the $40 shift light from turbohawk (small 1" X 3" housing). I will probably mount mine to the left of the instrument cowl or possibly the pillar. The shiftlight needs to be near eye level. Sincethere is no where to hide the light, it will have to sit somewhere on the dash or pillar. I don't know what pill to tell you to use...don't your have an automatic? I will initially set mine at 6000rpm. The delay between me seeing the light and shifting should be about right for my WOT rpm shift points. I'd say 6000 rpms with the automatic, maybe 6200.

Keep me posted on which wire you tap into for the tach. Thanks.

Dave

 

Some one here had a good idea if you don't smoke I guess.
I don't, but it would probably work good in the cig. lighter holder. I must admit i was sucked into the fad back in the day and got a 5" Monster, but I took it off. Hey but I was spray'n and at least I could beat alot big V8 on 75 shot. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Anyway's I still have the light and I kinda thought that cig. idea was kinda cool.

 

The cigarette lighter location wouldn't work for me. I'm tall and my knee would block the view of the light. Plus, the lights really needs to be within eye level.

Dave

 

wire the light signal with a buzzer.....
so when the light is on
buzzer will turn on
maybe have one of those thing that can buzz
"Shift darn it shift"
someone mentioned about this somewhere...
^_^
but hey...it is worth looking at right?

mounting position....are you left eye dominant or right eye dominant?....should mount it where your eye catch it easily when you are concentrating on driving....

 

AUTOMATIC?!

i've never been so humiliated in my life!
*gasp!*

hahaha no. i have a 5spd...

i think i'll have mine set at 6400.

 

It works good.

I'v got "turbohawks" NOS window switch on the way and I am going to install it soon.

Jeff Ketch did the original install ot the light and has some info on which wire to hook too. He said he was going to do a write up with details, but like the rest of us he's too busy to do so.

Dave B if you figure it out let me know, I'll do the same.

 

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Jeff K said that you need to cut into the coil trigger wire for the #1 cylinder. Theirs 3 wires on the plug attahed to the coils, 12v, ground and trigger. I havent double checked yet but I think that the 12v and ground are the same on all six cylinders, and the trigger wire is different. If you look at the wiring harness on the ECU I bet you can find the trigger wire by color code. To verify it you can check for continuity using a voltometer. Which cylinder is #1, the passanger side rear?

Any one got a shop manual for a 98' for sale?

[Edited by MardiGrasMax on 10-14-2000 at 11:02 AM]

 

i have the shop manual of a 99 on CDRom...

 

Dave B.

With the TurboHawk shift light you will need pin #1, the light reads pulse and if Cheston has the normal shift light then he will probably need pin #5(sends a contant 7-8 volts).

Dave... set the DIM 1 to pulse and DIM2 light to 6,000 rpms
because of the delay. The light should show at 6400 rpms under full throttle which is perfect.

 

When my tach is at 6000 rpms, the engine is actually at 6300rpms or so. There's that much difference, huh? Maybe I should have adjusted my shift points a while ago because I'm shifting at a indicated 6400rpms which would be damn close to redline if the tach is off by 200-400 rpms.

Dave

 

Jeff told me that Turbohawks shift light is slow to respond to the RPM input signal, so he had to set it at 6.0k so it would light up at 6.5k. His product is home made and inexpensive, but it works. The tach. works just fine, its the light thats slow.