Originally Posted by waaBAAH
i would say your tach is fine....sure you went up to lets say 10,000 rpms. no...your tach doesnt max at 8,000....sure...the writing on the tach says eight...but in reality you can go all the way back to zero (because there is a bump stop do-dad there). like i stated earklier....STOP RELYING ON YOUR TACH!!!!!!!!!! pay attention and listen to what the car is doing and feeling...stop worrying about your gauges...they are there for reference only and really have no meaning once you find out in the beginning of tuning the car.......
so to close things up here....pay attention to what the car is doing??? does it sound like it is at 5,000 at 70? or does it sound like it is at 4,000 at 70. sure...put a new tach in it...but you are just wasting money....it is in wiring not the gauge itself.
Ok, ok, enough about the tach. I've been driving a manual trans for 24 years and actually a CRX for the last 15. I'm very familiar with the sound and don't need the tach to shift. Even though the b16 in this one revs higher and sounds louder (ractive exhaust) I still say something is wrong. The v-tech kicks in on a slow acceleration at around 80mph. That's a fairly common highway speed around here and I never had it kick in that early before. It didn't usually engage until 90-95mph. No, I don't drive that fast. But yes, like everyone else, I had to see what it could do.
Hell, maybe the speedo is screwed up. When it shows 70, maybe I'm really doing 80 and when the v-tech engages at 80, maybe I'm really doing 90. I dunno. I guess I can have someone drive another car by me to test the speedo.