FTO AUSTRALIA

i recieved a monster tacho from mah gf as a xmas present YEHEY!!!
newayz i went to auto electrical shop...and they looked at mah engine and they said they have to know which wire or what they called tach scale or sumthing..they said about 40 wires r in there and they're not sure which ones which goes trough the tacho so they told me to get a wiring diagram from the internet or mitsubishi... did neone have installed a monster tacho on there cars..?? please help...

cheers,
nick

aaaawww??? how come you get to open your xmas pressie so soon???

...reckon i can be your GF's best friend or something? hehehe..!!

I'd say go to another auto electrician...

Installing the Monster Tacho is simple. In my FTO I tapped in to the back of the cluster. There is a screw with a (+) sign behind the standard Rev gauge. Unscrew that screw, and connect the appropriate wire to that. The other wire's are Positve and Negative terminals that connect to a 12V source, and if I remeber correctly there is another wire to that controls the shift light on the Tacho as well.

Hope this helps

Brendan

where abouts is the back of the cluster???

It is where your existing speedo and rev tacho are.
You need to remove the two screws above the steering wheel.
Then slide out the panel that has the Fog light buttons on it.
Make sure you disconnect the button.
Then unscrew the clear plastic cover in front of the gauges.
The whole thing should pull out, when all the screws are out.
Then you wire it to the back of the cluster. There is a screw with a (+) sign behind the standard Rev gauge.. That is where you connect the appropriate wire to.

The "cluster" is what the gauges and rev tacho are!!

is there any wire just in the engine bay that u can connect it to instead of ripping out the speedo???

Off the top of my head, you can only connect a wire to the engine bay if you have a carburetted car. Otherwise you have to connect it to the computer in the car. This bypasses both of them..

i have found a wire located close to the battery to connect the tacho, but it turns the original tacho off once connected, and the revs keep playing up at low revz????

should the original tacho in the dash turn off when the monsta tacho is connected, this happens in my fto, but i dont think it should, i have connected it to the back of the cluster???

i know which wire from the ECU it is after just installing an apexi RSM

you can download the wiring diagrams off the apexi usa website (in english). i'll bring it along on Sunday for the sydney cars

i dunno bout tachos like your one, but ive got a HUD connected at the back of the dash cluster and it doesnt turn off my dash tacho...
hope that helps....

it will be drawing too much current i think you'll find