up shift light
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up shift light
does any know how to make the stock shift light work i tried putting a bulb in there because it didnt hat one but it still wont work is there something that i have to do to make it work?
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Re: up shift light
it has to be wired to the tach you have to take the gauge cluster out to really look at it and make sure its wired though. don't you know when to shift anyway lol.
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Re: up shift light
That light will just warn you when you get too high in the RPMs. Like probabbly 6500+ I would imagine. That's not the best way to shift. The motors power peaks somewhere around 4Krpm so you should shift around 4500-5K rpm.
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Re: up shift light
iirc the shift light on manual cars is used for best fuel economy, its comes on at diff rpms based on tps and engine load
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Re: up shift light
If you put a bulb in it and it doesn't work then you will need to wire it.
It only works on a manual trans car tho. (in the prom)
It doesn't wire to the tach, it has a wire in the back of the cluster that goes to the ECM, if it's not there it would have to be added.
It only works on a manual trans car tho. (in the prom)
It doesn't wire to the tach, it has a wire in the back of the cluster that goes to the ECM, if it's not there it would have to be added.
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Re: up shift light
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Re: up shift light
for some reason i just want to see it work i just think it would look cool
thanks for all the help im going to try and wire it just for the hell of it
thanks for all the help im going to try and wire it just for the hell of it Thread
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