Fat Bob combo speedometer/tach question
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I was planning on waiting two weeks, but a month? Yikes!! Just pretend you're three years old and Christmas is right around the corner.
Works for me.
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Follow up. I ordered the speedo/tach and it came in about 3 weeks later. I installed it myself - plug and play, it couldn't have been easier & took about 15 minutes.
The black face looks sharp.
It picked up and incorporates all the features the OEM speedo had: two trip meters (I use one for miles between fill-ups and the other for miles between oil changes), 6th gear light, low fuel light, low fuel count-down, clock, low oil pressure indicator, fuel injector light, everything the stock speedo had.
It also has a really cool feature: you can set the color you want it to light up at night. I'm using red now but it runs all across the color spectrum and sets the intensity, too.
The smaller sweep of two gauges instead of one has been a non-issue; looking down to see the tach isn't probably the safest thing but its an intuitive scan and the information is quickly picked up when you glance down.
The black face looks sharp.
It picked up and incorporates all the features the OEM speedo had: two trip meters (I use one for miles between fill-ups and the other for miles between oil changes), 6th gear light, low fuel light, low fuel count-down, clock, low oil pressure indicator, fuel injector light, everything the stock speedo had.
It also has a really cool feature: you can set the color you want it to light up at night. I'm using red now but it runs all across the color spectrum and sets the intensity, too.
The smaller sweep of two gauges instead of one has been a non-issue; looking down to see the tach isn't probably the safest thing but its an intuitive scan and the information is quickly picked up when you glance down.
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How is the Shifting
I've always wonder how accurate is the shifting recomandations from the factory. Now that you have a tach, how accurate do you consider the whole 2@ 15mph, 3@25mph...and so on? At what rpms are you shifting? Thanks ahead of time.
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I've always wonder how accurate is the shifting recomandations from the factory. Now that you have a tach, how accurate do you consider the whole 2@ 15mph, 3@25mph...and so on? At what rpms are you shifting? Thanks ahead of time.
The rev limiter is spot on, cutting the spark as I reach 5500.
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I've always wonder how accurate is the shifting recomandations from the factory. Now that you have a tach, how accurate do you consider the whole 2@ 15mph, 3@25mph...and so on? At what rpms are you shifting? Thanks ahead of time.