I neeed to know what wires i need to hook the tach light to? It should be coming in on monday so I would like to be prepairedto install the light. The light is Raptor Performance.

 

Yes, Id like to see this too. Ive never even seen i done. Also importcivicus, when you go to do it, take pictures and make a DIY for the forum.

 

I belive it only hooks to the tach. Do you have an aftermarket tach already and just adding a light?

 

If your installing a shift light, it'll have three wires, red, black and green.

Red - 12 volt power supply only when key is in ON position

Black - Ground

Green - (This wire depends what year civic you have) 88 - 00 civic the green wire will go to the tach signal output wire on the distributor which is the white wire with a blue stripe, theres two harness connectors on the distributor, one with two wires and one with 6 or 8 wires, it connects to the white/blue wire on the 6 - 8 wire connector. If you have a 01 or up I'm not sure where the tach wire connects because I know the 04+ have individual coil packs ontop of the plugs so I'm not sure where the tach signal output wire is on those

Hope that helps ya out

 

Could you install a tach light with out a tack? If so that would be kinda cool do make on with a small led and flush mount in in the gauge cluster.

 

Yes you can install a shift light with out a factory tach. Some cars require a tach adaptor if not equipped with a factory tach but lucky Honda's do not require that (at least the 88 - 00 Honda's dont) I'm not sure about the new 01+ motors using individual coil packs because I have not installed an aftermarket tach or shift light into one of these so I dont know where the tach wire is.

 

I belive tach wires on 88-00 civics are blue.

And there is usally a test connector somewhere in the engine bay with only 1 blue wire and a big black thing on it. This is the tach wire.

 

no I know for a fact that my tach is connected to my distributor to a white w/ blue strip wire and so is the tach I installed on my buddies 96 Integra LS and mine is a 90 DX HB

 

I will be installing the tach light this weekend do to unusally weather in texas being either tooooooo HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT or wanting to rain or not it comes and goes so Im hoping this weekend the light will be installed and also i will be replacing my shift ****, shifter, shifter bushings, and the shift boot and e-brake boot. I will have pictures on my web page of before and after with all parts i will be replacing.


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what year is your civic and Ill look up what color the tach wire is for sure