georgechard
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Mar 2003
villa rica ga usa
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Hooking up Summit street strip ignition,and need to know where I hook up the tachometer wire. What color is the wire on the car and where is it? 1988 tbird turbo. Thank you...
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Pete D
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Apr 2001
Northern OH
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Check your email. I'm not familiar with the Summit unit but I know that the older MSD units required a separate tach adapter or our cars.
Pete Dunham
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georgechard
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Mar 2003
villa rica ga usa
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Thanks for the info but I'm still not sure where the wire from the Summit box (yellow wire) goes it says to tach.Its all straight forward,Just not sure about this one wire.I will try to send you the diogram from the Summit box to your email.Thanks again Pete!!!
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Protowrxs
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Nov 2007
Oklahoma
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Using an MSD box with the factory tach may be a challenge. Ford usually uses a Dark Green / Yellow wire for coil control and the tach wire. The Electrical/Vacuum manual I have does show that same color code.
It is fed off the coil side like normal but is connected all together from the TFI module, coil, and tach.
You will likely have to kill that wire going to the tach and connect the MSD box there. Supposed to be a black connector (C304) located at "LH dash panel, near windshield wiper motor" that this wire feeds through on position eight.
I'd just trace that dark green/yellow wire back to when it heads back to the instruments, snip it and try to drive it from there making sure to tape off the engine side.
Good luck.
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turbobike
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Sep 2006
northern Ohio
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The tach wire should be on the neg. side of coil.
85 TC,86 TC,65 Mustang GT
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georgechard
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Mar 2003
villa rica ga usa
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Can I just tap in to the dark green/yellow wire from the coil?
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georgechard
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Mar 2003
villa rica ga usa
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Can I try that or is this going to fry the new ignition box
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longbedGTs
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Oct 2004
Amarillo, Texas
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bump does anyone know? Im trying to get the tach working on a Mallory Hyfire 685 and going directly from the tach output on the mallory to the green/yellow wire at the back of the cluster doesnt work. I snipped the green/yellow going to the coil and whatnot, so its a direct connection but that doesnt work.
88 TC 5spd~money pit
88 TC 5spd~78K miles
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