4cyl tacho with 6cl engine can it work?

[duggy]

hey guys ive got a 180sx with a 1jz i want to get the standard tacho to work i was reading a few threads about tacho boosters but im not sure if this will suit my needs.

so i have just a few questions.

will the nissan tacho read the toyota signal at all?

will a tacho booster make my gauge read right?

if a tacho booster is not what i need is there anything that will fix the problem?

[wilbo666]

I thought you'd mentioned that you had the tacho working it was just reading wrong?


If you have the tacho reading (albeit wrong) then you very well might not need a booster...

Not being familiar with 180SX's I'm not sure if it is possible to take the dash apart and 'calibrate' it to work with the 6 cyl tacho output from the 1JZ....


If it isn't possible to calibrate the dash then one solution might be to use something like a Jaycar speedo corrector to correct the 1JZ tacho signal... and you might need a tacho booster after the speedo corrector depending on what signal your dash works off...

e.g.
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView...o&form=KEYWORD



Cheers
Wilbo

[duggy]

na my mates rb25 powered silvia is working but reading wrong i though mine would be the same but i spoke to some one who said the signal will probably be different and might not work at all.

[wagonist]

A solution on some toyotas is to get the guts out of the tacho from a 6 cyl instrument cluster (eg Camry) & fit it behind the 4 cyl face.

The sweep of the needle needs to be the same though.

May be a thought to try?