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who even uses their tach anymore?????i shift by ear and theres alittle red light that tells me to shift
Do you use your tachometer????
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Not particularly no. I do give it a glance every now and then...but I don't find it all that necessary when driving around town. I do tend to look at it more when I'm doing slightly spirited (shifting at 6k) driving though, just to make sure I don't hit the VTEC crossover. 
I'm not sure what you're saying has anything to do with the topic... How do you tune anything with a tachometer? And what is good about a vette sounding different from a honda?
I'm not trying to argue with you... just trying to understand what you're saying here....
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like izzy said, i glance at it every once in a while but i dont need it to know when to shift...even when i hit vtec.
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I look at it constantly...figuring MPH per RPM per gear, on the fly.
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i look at hot chicks driving next to me. I have not time to look at the tach
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No not really, I have a light when I must shift
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my 91 didnt even have a tach pwnt.
pwnt.
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tach is important for hard driving.
you need to be sure that the car wont overrev for a downshift, and its good for shift point as well. the built in shift light in our car is not good..it flashes too early (7500) and if you wait for solid (8000) unless you pay super attention, by the time you notice that its solid, youve hit the limiter. they should either make it start flashing at 7800, or make the color change at 8000. atleast for me, the reaction time from flashing to solid it just to long.
looking at the tach is also good for double clutching/heel toe, but it can be done without looking at the tach with practice.
normal driving i dont really see the tach at all. especially with the split dash setup.
you need to be sure that the car wont overrev for a downshift, and its good for shift point as well. the built in shift light in our car is not good..it flashes too early (7500) and if you wait for solid (8000) unless you pay super attention, by the time you notice that its solid, youve hit the limiter. they should either make it start flashing at 7800, or make the color change at 8000. atleast for me, the reaction time from flashing to solid it just to long.
looking at the tach is also good for double clutching/heel toe, but it can be done without looking at the tach with practice.
normal driving i dont really see the tach at all. especially with the split dash setup.
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7500-8000 = flashing
8000+ = solid.
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Havnt really read the manual, but is there a way to set the shift light ? My z33 you can increase or decrease when the light turns on. /shrug
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it doesnt flash at 7800. it flashes at 7500. if it flashed at 7800 id be very happy because from no flashing to flashing i have a very good reaction time. its from flashing to solid that my brain is a little slow.
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