PeteL

A friend of my races in 944 Spec. We just spent the better part of two weekends moving race parts from his wrecked car into a new car.
Amazingly we got the suspension, transmission, engine and race interior into the former street car (not to mention removing the street interior).
Now we are up to the homestretch. Need to hook up the race tach but I wasn't there when he removed it from the wreck. It is one of those large tachs with the yellow shift light on it.
Any clues?

ubercooper

mmmmm, smells like rice!

spazegun2213

odds are it attaches to the coil... i THINK... look up the instructions on the internet.

PeteL

No ... RACE. This is a fully prepped race car.

Z-man

ubercooper -- how DARE you call a 944-Spec racer a ricer-- have you no respect?

Jakerx

he's a noob. cut him some slack.

M758

The stock tach is run off off an electrical connector on the DME harness.

At least this is the case for the early 944 and 924S.

Not sure about the late 944. That connector should be under the steering wheels somewhere. It may be hard to find however if everythign has been moved around.

I you have and early car and need the stock gauges let me know as I have spare set. BTW... 944 spec rules do require that you maintain the factory gauges. You can ADD additional ones including shift lights and tachs, but the stock ones still need to remain intact.

PeteL

The original gauges are there. This is just a big honkin' tach with a shift lite. This is a late car.

ubercooper

I clearly respect 944-spec cars, I have a 944. I was talking about the GIANT TACH WITH THE HUGE SHIFT LIGHT! thats why porsche put in a tach, so noobs wont go to pepboys and buy rice like that.
I just dont want to see any 944's end up like this...

PeteL

Dude look at some full-on race prepped 944s. I am willing to bet that most, if not all have that tach (the big one with the shift light).
When placed on a street car that never sees the track and does street racing, yeah, that's rice, but on a race-prepped full cage, interior stripped, non-street legal RACE car. It is not rice, so get over it.

M758

I MOVED my tach to the center of my 3 hole gauge cluster and rotated it so 6 is up. Does that make me a ricer?



Hey I don't see the need for an aftermaket tach or shift light in a 944 spec car, but I don't any problems seeing mine. If you as a racer keep htting the rev limiter do what you can to prevent that. If that means a 10" tach with mondo shift light do it.

I would guess that 95 out of 100 shifts in my 944 spec car are at 6000 RPM. Even with my cearly visible tach I have got 6700 RPM for maybe 5-6 shifts in my 4 year racing life. It is amazing what happens during a start when chasing another car.

ubercooper

jeez, I was joking at first but I guess not...
not in the slightest.
Im not saying that tachs are bad or upgraded ones, but when it looks like you have a industrial size clock on your dashboard it looks odd and kind of stupid (not if its strictly a race car.)
im saying for a regular dd car with no cage, harnesses, and will never see a track; huge tachs are dumb. but if you are one of the exceptions (listed above) than do whatever you have to, to get better times and shifts.

M758

The post started by saying this was for a spec race car.

So no need to bring up the ricer comments.

Pete... sorry I don't have an answer for you otther than what I posted about the DME harness connector. You could try http://www.nasaforums.com in the 944 spec section.

ubercooper

it was one comment, at the beginning, and it was a joke..

75ohm

I'm grabbing the popcorn... maybe some goobers too.