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Old May 24, 2001 | 01:12 PM
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Help re-wiring my tach....

Here is the deal: I have an 87 IROC TPI that I converted to speed density and also used the external coil distributor. I swapped the stock coil out for the Mallory Promaster. I also have the mallory HyFire IV ignition box. Anyway, sometimes the Autometer tach I have does not work. I have good ground, 12V, and the light on the tach has a good connection. This has lead me to the tach terminal at the HyFire box being bad. I want to verify this by splicing into the factory tach wire. I was told on another post that I should splice into the brown wire on the distributor but there is not a brown wire on any of the distributor connections. The wires coming of the distributor are tan/black, black/red, white, pink, and yellow. The wiring manual I have says that the white wire is the tach wire to the instrument cluster but I thought that this wire was for the EST connection at the ECM. Which one is the tach wire?????????? Could I also connect the tach feed to the coil ground with the HEI ignition or does this only work with standard ignitions. Thanks for your help. I'm at my wit's end.
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'87 IROC, 355 TPI, Converted to SD, 700R4, B&M Megashifter, 3.42, Trick Flow Twisted Wedge Heads, Edelbrock Intake, Accel Runners, Comp Cam, Crane Gold rockers, Lucas 23# injectors, Edelbrock headers, Flowmaster 3'' exhaust, Mallory Ignition, Transgo Performance Shift Kit, Corvette Servo, 2,000 Stall Torque Converter
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