I am just getting my redone gauges back from the shop on friday(long story from hell...you dont want to know.) Anywho I want to kinda keep this car as low key as possible so I want to mount the tach in a out of sight location like maybe left of the radio or what not. but to the point, what am I looking for in these tachs! There are so many to choose from! What are all these features and are they worth it?(shift lights...crap like that)

I have the Autometer "Designer Black" street rod pack now.

-Luke

Save your money if you're going to hide it out of the way.

Shift lights serve a pupose and allow you to keep your eyes on the road.

John 8)

depends what the purpose of the car is.. if your draggin' the car, then i'd consider the shift light as your most likely manually shifting car.. if not, then why waste the money? to me, an accurate tach is more important.. I prefer the clean "low key stock look" my 80 elky ss with the 4 speed had the plain long speedo, but a place for a clock.. I punched that out, and mounted a mini tach in it's place.. mounted oil pressure, and temp gauges in the side spots, to both sides of the steering wheel and it was real low key, didn't look out of place and was functional... but low key is just my own personal taste.. i'm sure other folks have other ideas...

Anyone had any experience with summit tachs? They look neat but the cheaper price make me weary or their accuarcy. I found a nice black autometer unit for around 80 though.
-Luke

depends what the purpose of the car is.. if your draggin' the car, then i'd consider the shift light as your most likely manually shifting car.. if not, then why waste the money?

Exactly.. shift lights and memory points on street driven automatics are pretty pointless and a waste of money that could go to better things. I have just a simple Sun Super Tach, and I love it. Again though.. I sometimes wonder what's the point on a tach on my car, since it's automatic and I don't race it anymore, though I used to at the drag strip. But still.. that's beside the point I guess. Good visibility day or night is a plus. There's not a lot to a tach really, there's not best of the best really check a few out, buy something you like the looks of. We don't know you, or what you'd like the looks of however, but I think a simple tach would serve you well, and you could use the money saved on other things.

Anyone had any experience with summit tachs? They look neat but the cheaper price make me weary or their accuarcy. I found a nice black autometer unit for around 80 though.
-Luke
I've used Summit's own brand of parts before and find them to be of excellent quality and performance. They make good stuff.

I had a tach in my Elky so I could tell how fast I was going

I have the sun pro tach from pepboys for like $45 and its pretty good besdies i think its retared cause it'll jump around when im @ a steady 70mph

yeah I was looking and had a wide variety of choices, until I got to the MSD ignition website and saw the chart of tach adapters you have to buy with certain brands and their prices (hooking up a 6AL after suspesion work is done). The good part, autometer brand require NO tach adapter. So I think I will either get one of their flat black cup models or get the 2 1/16 in dash tach that matches my gauges and mount that.

considering i dont have the car at the moment, I will hold off and see if there is a place to mount this mini tach so I can read it easily, if not I will go with the cup. And Oh yeah, some neat info. I saw that autometer made a shift light switch that was meant to hook up to one of their pen lights,(just the switch alone) Well, I asked them if I could just wire it up to an led behind all my warning lights on the right bezel of my camino and use that as a activation light and they said I could use any 12v lamp and not even void the warranty. So there's an easy super sleeper shift light for ya. too bad the switch is alittle costly. 50 bucks or so.

Good luck- and thanks for the input. I will post pics when Im done!