i got a 97 cavalier z24 dirt track racecar. i was wondering if anybody can email me or give me a link to hook up tack, oil pressure gauge, water temp, push button start. thanks chuck
For a tach, you are going to need something called a pulse doubler. RK sport sells one, or you can find one on ebay. I would recomend the RK sport version, since I have had a few issues with my ebay one, and there's only one guy that I have seen who sells them on there. The oil pressuer gauge, I can't give you the exact spacifics for the 2.4, but on the 2.2 there is a threaded plug on the back passenger side of the motor. just pull that out, and your sender should thread right in. That will have a single wire coming off of it , going to the gauge. then the gauge will have it's ground, that can just go the body, and the illumination wire, wich can pull off of any lighted source in your dash. hope that helps
The Tinman wrote:For a tach, you are going to need something called a pulse doubler.
thats if you have a 2.2 and its a tach adaptor. you only need them for the 2.2s because they didnt have tachs. he has a 2.4 and should be able to just hook up a tach directly
The Tinman wrote: but on the 2.2 there is a threaded plug on the back passenger side of the motor. just pull that out, and your sender should thread right in. That will have a single wire coming off of it , going to the gauge. then the gauge will have it's ground, that can just go the body, and the illumination wire, wich can pull off of any lighted source in your dash. hope that helps
do you mean the oil pan plug? and why couldnt you run the illumination wire off any power source that only has power when the car is running like a fuse or something?
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do you mean the oil pan plug?
no on the back of the engine on a 2200 and i think 2.2 right above the oil filter theres a plug thats capped off that u can tap in to for your oil pressure gauge or turbo oil feed line. i think the s10's use that plug for something that the cavalier don't.
i have an aftermarket tach on my 2.2 and i put a MSD DIS-TACH MODULE on. now my gauge does work but it has wicked slow reaction time. i can bounce my revs 4 or 5 times before the gauge will go up to 6 grand (just an example of how slow it is). is something wrong with my gauge, or maybe wiring? the module is hooked up to the coil positive side. my tach originally said to hook up to coil negative, but then i was reading on here about the tach adapter so i just bought the MSD and put it on. any help is greqatly appreciated.
StrippedCav98 (Now Quotable) wrote:The Tinman wrote:For a tach, you are going to need something called a pulse doubler.
thats if you have a 2.2 and its a tach adaptor. you only need them for the 2.2s because they didnt have tachs. he has a 2.4 and should be able to just hook up a tach directly
My 97 Fire 2.2 had a tach...
cavalierkid02 wrote:The Tinman wrote: but on the 2.2 there is a threaded plug on the back passenger side of the motor. just pull that out, and your sender should thread right in. That will have a single wire coming off of it , going to the gauge. then the gauge will have it's ground, that can just go the body, and the illumination wire, wich can pull off of any lighted source in your dash. hope that helps
do you mean the oil pan plug? and why couldnt you run the illumination wire off any power source that only has power when the car is running like a fuse or something?
He means here (see above the oil filter)
the illumination is usually used for night driving to light up the gauge
Matthew Koepf wrote:i have an aftermarket tach on my 2.2 and i put a MSD DIS-TACH MODULE on. now my gauge does work but it has wicked slow reaction time. i can bounce my revs 4 or 5 times before the gauge will go up to 6 grand (just an example of how slow it is). is something wrong with my gauge, or maybe wiring? the module is hooked up to the coil positive side. my tach originally said to hook up to coil negative, but then i was reading on here about the tach adapter so i just bought the MSD and put it on. any help is greqatly appreciated.
sounds like a slow gauge to me. mine works just fine.
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