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Thanks for letting me know that. I just have experience with a few muscle cars, and I know that an aftermarket tach is a big improvement over the factory ones. I guess the signal that the tach is getting is just slow and since the aftermarket tach will just be tapping into the same signal, it wont be any improvement. I'll stick to getting a shift light then 
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Originally posted by Roz 1999 SVT-C:
For some people it beats having to take there eyes off the road and look to see where they have to shift....but if you cant tell when you have to shift by the sound of the car...then maybe you should't be driving....Also the sotck tachs are just as acurate if not more accurate than the aftermarket ones....But i guess to each his own.
Good Luck with the install.
Roz
The stock tach is in fact innacurate AND slow. I know this because I could see the difference when I had my S-AFC, which had a digital tach.
All the same monster tach are silly. 
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Originally posted by Andy W.:
Get a shift light and set it at the optimal shift point for racing. Otherwise why do you really need the tach? Nice to have, but not worth being in your line of site.
Exactly. Also mount it in the vent to to keep it out of sight!
Those oversized tachs are just tachy bling, bling. Eyesore candy for those that need it.
Besides if you are going to wire into a tach signal get it from the PCM feed. My "digital" S-AFC reads the correct rpm all the time while the stock tach is most definitely SLOW!
Honestly I can shift by engine sound alone. The S-AFC's peak hold is proof to that. 
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ive been dying to put a shift light in my left vent. Is there a write up for this somewere? I realy want a shift light but i dont want it out in the open, the vent is perfect.
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My stock tach was slow until I installed the Fidanza
what..I'm already at 6K...daaaaaammmnn..
I got used to how fast my engine revd until I sat in an svt without the fidanza 
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Originally posted by Stazi the Aussie:
Originally posted by Roz 1999 SVT-C:
For some people it beats having to take there eyes off the road and look to see where they have to shift....but if you cant tell when you have to shift by the sound of the car...then maybe you should't be driving....Also the sotck tachs are just as acurate if not more accurate than the aftermarket ones....But i guess to each his own.
Good Luck with the install.
Roz
The stock tach is in fact innacurate AND slow. I know this because I could see the difference when I had my S-AFC, which had a digital tach.
All the same monster tach are silly.
Has anyone considered attempting to replace the stock tachometer mechanism, with a more accurate after market one? I mean inside the guage cluster. I know you'd probably need custom guage faces so the numbers would line up correctly, but I'm sure it could be done?
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Originally posted by FlechaAutoSports:
My stock tach was slow until I installed the Fidanza
Actually that would make the stock tach SLOWER as the engine is revving up quicker.
The tach can't keep up with a stock engine. That's the problem.
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Yes, the stock tach will read about 6800 RPM when fuel cutoff occurs when in 1st at full accel. First time this happened to me I almost had a heart attack!
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