Tach problems-no signal?

silver_02

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Mar 23, 2004
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Bloomington, IL
I installed an Autometer sport comp silver tach in my car this weekend along with the MSD tach adapter for use with (coil on plug) DIS ignition systems. I tried to splice into the red wire going to one of the coils to pick up a rpm signal but all this gets me is about a 100-200 rpm reading on my tach-even when revving. Where am I supposed to take the red wire and the red/green wire to pick up a rpm signal?
 
I recently installed a tach in my car, i was using the autometer tach adapter, i sure they work the same though. Here is the directions a guy from autometer gave me.
" Locate the large, square, 42 pin wire harness connector on the passenger side firewall. Look for pin #34, which is usually located towards the corner of the connector and is usually a solid red or red with a green stripe wire. Cut this wire in half and wire in the tach adapter in between the two cut halves. The solid red of the adapter will attach to the wire half that still has power when the key is on. The red with green stripe wire of the adapter will attach to the other half of the wire you just cut. This way the power to the coils flows through the adapter. Ground the black wire of the adapter and hook the gray wire to the green wire of the tachometer. "
Hope it helps, good luck.