Reverse Glow Gauges
bh04
07-11-2005, 01:01 PM
I am looking into purchasin a reverse glow gauge for my 2000 Cavy w/o tach. Well, if I purchase one w/ tach capability, can I hook that tach part up wiht some wires or anything like that? Any comments would be appreciated.
PsychoJJ
07-11-2005, 02:01 PM
Only thing I can say is do not get the APC kind. If you didnt already have a tach I dont think there is any way to get it in with out actually putting in a tach. All the reveres glow gauges do is cover up the hole where your old gauge face was. So if there was no needle and tach then there will be no tach. Just a lit area where the tach should be.
01Cavy
07-11-2005, 07:20 PM
I am looking into purchasin a reverse glow gauge for my 2000 Cavy w/o tach. Well, if I purchase one w/ tach capability, can I hook that tach part up wiht some wires or anything like that? Any comments would be appreciated.
I don't have the reverse glow guages anymore, but if you take a cluster with tac from a z24 or any other cavalier 2000 or above the tac will work just plugging it up like the guage cluster you have now. Also if you go to www.speedhut.com you can custamize your guages. It costs a little more, but they look damn good. Or go to ebay and get reverse glow guages for clusters without a tac. I did and they worked fine.
I don't have the reverse glow guages anymore, but if you take a cluster with tac from a z24 or any other cavalier 2000 or above the tac will work just plugging it up like the guage cluster you have now. Also if you go to www.speedhut.com you can custamize your guages. It costs a little more, but they look damn good. Or go to ebay and get reverse glow guages for clusters without a tac. I did and they worked fine.
bh04
07-12-2005, 01:12 AM
SO I understand this.....sorry if i'm acting kind of dumb. If I purchase a cluster with a tach, and even thought I do not have one, the tach part on the new would would work perfectly fine, just by plugging it in?
PsychoJJ
07-12-2005, 01:49 AM
Reverse glow gauges are not actual gauges think of them as face plates to a phone. If your car doesnt have a tach you wont have a tach. Your gauge cluster needs to have a tach for the gauge face to read a tach. Basically its like trying to do math using your finger but you dont have hands.
01Cavy
07-12-2005, 06:07 PM
SO I understand this.....sorry if i'm acting kind of dumb. If I purchase a cluster with a tach, and even thought I do not have one, the tach part on the new would would work perfectly fine, just by plugging it in?
Worked for me in my 01
Worked for me in my 01
PsychoJJ
07-12-2005, 06:11 PM
Worked for me in my 01
With a gauge face or a gauge cluster?
With a gauge face or a gauge cluster?
01Cavy
07-12-2005, 06:17 PM
replacing the cluster. The tac works perfectly.
He'll need a new cluster to buy the guage face with a tac in it. It won't fit any other way.
He'll need a new cluster to buy the guage face with a tac in it. It won't fit any other way.
PsychoJJ
07-12-2005, 06:29 PM
Thats what I have been trying to say this whole time. :eek7: Was I just getting too technical or something? :lol:
nfg2184
07-12-2005, 06:37 PM
If I put a 190mph gauge face in my car will it go that fast?
bh04
07-12-2005, 06:42 PM
New cluster, I forgot to mention that. And yes your car will go that fast if you put a speedo that goes that high. Hah!
nfg2184
07-12-2005, 06:46 PM
Sweetness!
I think I'm going to take some white out and increase my redline to 7,000 too.
I think I'm going to take some white out and increase my redline to 7,000 too.
bh04
07-12-2005, 06:58 PM
Sweetness!
I think I'm going to take some white out and increase my redline to 7,000 too.
Beings my car is basic as all hell and don't have a tach, what does a 2000 2.2 cavy redline?
I think I'm going to take some white out and increase my redline to 7,000 too.
Beings my car is basic as all hell and don't have a tach, what does a 2000 2.2 cavy redline?
nfg2184
07-12-2005, 07:01 PM
Doesn't really matter, you'll never know when you're there.
bh04
07-12-2005, 07:03 PM
Thsi is one of those random ?'s. When I get my rims on this weekend, i'll update my pics on cardomain and dotphoto and was wondering if someone could make me a custom sig with my car and new rims? I suck at making those.
PsychoJJ
07-12-2005, 08:01 PM
Be sure when you get that high a speedo to head to walmart and pic up one of those apc shopping cart wings in the pointless automotive crap aisle to help with the high speeds. :lol2:
bh04
07-12-2005, 08:14 PM
Be sure when you get that high a speedo to head to walmart and pic up one of those apc shopping cart wings in the pointless automotive crap aisle to help with the high speeds. :lol2:
And also lets not forget to purchase some of those aftermarket etched glass decals too that has got to add, what is it, 25% more HP?
And also lets not forget to purchase some of those aftermarket etched glass decals too that has got to add, what is it, 25% more HP?
01Cavy
07-12-2005, 09:42 PM
Thats what I have been trying to say this whole time. :eek7: Was I just getting too technical or something? :lol:
No I was just not referring to the fitment of the new overlay like you were. I was telling him that if he added a new stock cluster with the tac then the tac will work, or that he could get an overlay made for cavy's w/o tacs.
No I was just not referring to the fitment of the new overlay like you were. I was telling him that if he added a new stock cluster with the tac then the tac will work, or that he could get an overlay made for cavy's w/o tacs.
nfg2184
07-13-2005, 12:40 AM
Be sure when you get that high a speedo to head to walmart and pic up one of those apc shopping cart wings in the pointless automotive crap aisle to help with the high speeds. :lol2:
That aisle isn't pointless, you're just jealous of my valve stem caps with the little l.e.d. lights on them.
That aisle isn't pointless, you're just jealous of my valve stem caps with the little l.e.d. lights on them.
PsychoJJ
07-13-2005, 12:41 AM
:eek7:
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