Yep! I got a 5" Sport Comp tach with shift lite. It's a bit mario styles but I reckon it looks cool. Personally, I never even look at the revs on the monster tach, I always look at the factory tacho, but the shift light is very handy when racing.
Here's a pic
There are also 3 other gauges mounted just infront of the gear stick. Oil pressure, water temp and air/fuel ratio. You can see in this pic
I'm not sure of the size of mine, but I picked it up really cheap. I just had it mounted pretty dodgy (screwed into dash). The shift-light is in the tacho and is pretty small. I'm not a fan of the huge shift-lights on N/A cars, especially TQE's. :)
I found out the day after it was installed, that it had been mounted illegally as it's considered an obstruction of vision in WA. I've had it for about 14 months and *touch wood* had no problems with the cops, despite being pulled over several times for other things. I really should have had it professionally mounted to the A-pillar, but it didn't think of that then. Instead I cut thru' my dash mat. :)
It'll be great for drags when I get the manual and 3.89 mini-spool fitted. For now it is handy as it is more accurate than the tacho that's in my s-pac cluster.
sorry guys but i dnt see the point in having a huge tacho there if ones already on the dash! and one that goes to 10,000 rpm??? but your car dosnt even go past 6,000rpm ... and if u really need a shift light how about one of those small LED's that you can hook up??? sorry, aftermarket tacho's just arnt my thing... espicially if they r in a AUTO
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each to their own... i dont have an s pac or fairmont dash in my eb. if i did i wouldn't bother.. and the tacho i have is an Autometer Pro-comp series, without the shift lite fitted.
have you never heard of manually shifting an automatic transmission?
i guess you just don't drive your car hard enough.....
or enter serious burnout comps......
thanks for the pics guys:)
are there tacho's similar to the autometer ones that only go to say 6 grand and are physically smaller in size? I wanna update my cluster to an s-pac tacho one, but the one's i have seen seem to be slow. Eg. on drop back the tacho takes a bit to catch up to the motor. Is this common?
you can get 2 and a half and three inch tachos that go to 6 or 7 grand.
the factory one in your car will be 9 or 10 years old by now, they do play up after awhile. then again, i have seen ea ones working fine. there are places around that can fix them.
I personally reckon they look cool but not in a auto (unless your running a big motor with a manualised tranny and watching revs is important)
Ford's electronic tacho's are crap. Most cars i have seen (including my EL) lag a decent aftermarket tacho by around 100-150rpm...i know its not much for a daily driver but...
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