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Old 04-14-2010, 01:01 AM   #50 (permalink)
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This is too cool! You'll have it ready for GGP, right?

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Originally Posted by Christ View Post
making the tach work will require a "healer" of some sort, because the tach is meant for a 4 cylinder, not a 3. It gets it's signal from the igniter in the dizzy - I believe the green wire - so you might have to figure out about using a resistor or something to keep it accurate, but I'm not sure about that. It might "just work".
I'm pretty sure I've seen a thread at teamswift about how to mod a tach from a 4-cyl suzukiclone to make it work with the 3-cyl.
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