shift light install
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From: Reading, Pa
Car: 1985 IROC-Z
Engine: 305
Transmission: borg warner 5-speed
Axle/Gears: stock
shift light install
looking into getting a shift light but i'm not sure what I have to get other then the shift light itself. I have pro comp guages not sure if that makes a difference or not. any help would be appreciated thanx in advance
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From: Boyertown, PA
Car: 84 Z28
Engine: 91 L98 long block with Pro-jection
Transmission: T5
Axle/Gears: 91 10bolt w/ 3.42s and T2R
Re: shift light install
I know this is a month and a half old, but...
Chances are the light will run off the tach feed, and have either a selector or "pills" to set activation RPM. It's pretty straightforward...
I'm not too far away from you also...
Chances are the light will run off the tach feed, and have either a selector or "pills" to set activation RPM. It's pretty straightforward...
I'm not too far away from you also...
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From: Reading, Pa
Car: 1985 IROC-Z
Engine: 305
Transmission: borg warner 5-speed
Axle/Gears: stock
Re: shift light install
yeah my grandparents used to live in boyertown i know that area pretty good any good car shows down that way and about the shift light you're sayin the tach should have some kind of plug on it to plug a shift light right into?
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From: Dumfries, VA
Car: 1985 Z28
Engine: 334 Stroker Superram 222/230
Transmission: Full Manual 700R4 / 3k Street Edge
Axle/Gears: 3.90 Eaton, Moser, Richmond & More
Re: shift light install
This is the one I went with:
http://www.summitracing.com/search/B.../?autoview=SKU
Wired it straight to the coil and it seems to do It's job well. This shift light is also independent of a tach unlike most other shift light I could find that required an existing tach with shift light output.
Just a word of caution the anodized finish that they use on it WILL "change" with UV exposure. I bought the black one and mounted it at the top of my pillar pod which is in full view of the driver side window and a year later the black had turned to a brilliant bronze finish
Paint yours BEFORE you install it and you won't have to go to that trouble later.
http://www.summitracing.com/search/B.../?autoview=SKU
Wired it straight to the coil and it seems to do It's job well. This shift light is also independent of a tach unlike most other shift light I could find that required an existing tach with shift light output.
Just a word of caution the anodized finish that they use on it WILL "change" with UV exposure. I bought the black one and mounted it at the top of my pillar pod which is in full view of the driver side window and a year later the black had turned to a brilliant bronze finish

Paint yours BEFORE you install it and you won't have to go to that trouble later.
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From: Boyertown, PA
Car: 84 Z28
Engine: 91 L98 long block with Pro-jection
Transmission: T5
Axle/Gears: 91 10bolt w/ 3.42s and T2R
Re: shift light install
Yeah, what he said ^^^^^ 
Run straight to the tach pin on the coil, wire the 12V, and go...
On the local side- There's a big show in Boyertown once a year, and lots of Cruise nights around Pottstown...

Run straight to the tach pin on the coil, wire the 12V, and go...
On the local side- There's a big show in Boyertown once a year, and lots of Cruise nights around Pottstown...
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