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Adding a tacho to a gen 3 motor?
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:42 pm
by scarman
hi guys does any one now how to hook up a tacho to a gen 3 engine in a conversion in is out of a vy commodore. Have checked harness and asked to auto electrics about doing the job and no one knows how to do it.
I have also checked other forums and have had no luck. Please help
Re: Adding a tacho to a gen 3 motor?
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:31 pm
by zackde
scarman wrote:hi guys does any one now how to hook up a tacho to a gen 3 engine in a conversion in is out of a vy commodore. Have checked harness and asked to auto electrics about doing the job and no one knows how to do it.
I have also checked other forums and have had no luck. Please help
You can buy a signal converter from here.
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/ ... prd127.htm
Or you can buy a scan gauge, that just plugs into the OBD2 plug.
http://www.aeroforcetech.com/products_interceptor.html
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:44 pm
by killalux
Connect it to the tacho output wire from the PCM, set the tacho to 4cyl. most aftermarket tacho's will work fine.`
The wire is connector X2, pin 10 brown wire.
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:37 am
by PGS 4WD
It depends on the Tacho, the issue is that not all tachos trigger at the same voltage, sometimes you need to step the voltage as well as correct the pulse. There is also an option in the LS1 software as to how the tacho output is configured, this needs to be set correctly also.
Joel
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:10 am
by garrycol
Run it off the alternator.
Garry