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[Faultless]

oh rite so is there anything i can do about this and what will make it not read well up until 3000rpm

thats the only thing im not to happy with my mini the injection cant tune it much n now looks like i cant have rev counter ah well still love it lol

[fikus01]

u can have a rev counter jsut not with the rev counter you have!! sorry didnt realise til my last post that u had injection!!, err convert it to carb and dizzy???? thats tunable!!

(i know sum1 will slate me for saying spi isnt tunable)

[miniboo]

yes fikus the spi is tuneable lol

have you connected the rev counter up?

i think it is just the mpi that does the weird rev counter thing.

[fikus01]

i've seen it on a mg metro engine with the same type of rev counter!! assumed the spi would do the same thing really!!

[Faultless]

ok so the best thing is to fit it and then see what is happening. One thing is i cant fit it yet until i get my dash which will be in the next two weeks. or should i just fit it now. it doesnt have the black plastic thing on it tho so it will be all exposed. lol

[Faultless]

ok i cant be bothered to wait for dash yet want to get this out of the way. I have fitted everything and it all works. Well when i say ive fitted everything i mean all but rev counter. The reason being that i cant find any where that sells the bullet connections to fit so anyone got any ideas as to who might sell them my local car accessory place doesnt have any small enough. Thanks in advance Lee

[fikus01]

try halfrauds!!

[Faultless]

kk thanks will do

[Faultless]

got some connectors doesnt work on spi wont even let my car start wen it is connected so back to two clock set up. thanks anyways for all your help.

[Dan]

Well, the type of rev counter in those clocks is incompatible with your cars wiring and systems. As has been said above. As John (Guessworks) said this type of tacho doesn't run off a trigger feed from the coil but must be in line with the supply to the coil itself and senses off that, which the injection system does not like. The wiring system of the Mini was redesigned in '76 and any rev counter used after that date is a trigger type which will work but earlier cars tachos will not. Sorry if you have already wired it like that but reading the thread it sounds like you've just sort of ignored what Guessworks said and it's fairly important.

And will someone please confiscate Fikus' exclaimation mark key.

Edited by Dan, 17 December 2006 - 07:07 PM.

[fikus01]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EH WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LIKE THAT BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehe sorry very bad habbit i picked up at college many moons ago, they tried to get us using punctuation and teaching us some english skills. they failed to realise we were engineering students and cared little for the correct way of writing things let alone spelling them. each time i press the key i think thats bad. sorry all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!