Where is the best place to mount a tach on a daily driven Nova?

Whatever is most comfortable for you and aesthetically pleasing. I assume no pillar bar or they have some nice rollbar clamp setups and smaller tachs. Do you have a stock dash and not want to drill holes all in it. Personally I like it right in my face even with electrical shifter, but it's an powder coated aluminum dash so holes no biggie. Steering column mount pretty old school but functional. Integrated into existing dash? .again depends on what you have and want to cut up.

mounted to the column

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I give up

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I guess I will stick to the old column shift. Thanks.

I was trying to attach a pic but was unsuccessful. There are some really nice and slick looking A Pillar mount setups out there

Truth is a tach is no longer needed in race cars or street/strip cars. Everyone runs an automatic trans that is shifted automatically by RPM or time and for those manually shifting their auto trans, they have a shift light.

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I would always want a tach. Maybe that's old school thinking but I don't think so. Some type of REAL TIME RPM readout of some type. Doesnt have be a sweep tachometer but I am use to those..... even if it was on a race pack or digital type display if for nothing else than to set idle check timing etc and if and when issues arise to pinpoint at what rpm. Especially on a street car. I do not have a data recorder in my car yet, hope to soon! I know brke dyck.....save it. Maybe I would change my mind then. Some of the smaller tachometer look pretty nice as well. I was dealing with a vibration without being able to look at the tach I would have been guessing when it occured. Hell it still may not be fixed. Dont know yet.

Definitely old school, a tach is useless in our cars today. Setting the timing doesn't need it and neither does idle, if you must know what RPM your race car is at idle in gear, you can buy a cheap 2" tach for that use that you keep in your tool box or you can buy a dial back timing light with RPM display that I have owned for 35 years




or you can buy an MSD Tester that I also have





and yes, many today have data recorders in their cars and many more will each new season.

My next dragster will again have a Racepak dash/data recorder and in case it ever fails, it will be flanked with a water temp gauge and a oil pressure gauge. that's all you need.

There are those of us that still use it to set stage rpm.

don't need it for that either.

Guess I don't have your certified ear to stage with then.

Join us in the year 2021...

footbrake



Top bulb

I'm only talking bottom.

They aren't allowed here and don't need it anyway. I have a tach. D1 is using buttons now anyway aren't they?

So there isnt a tach in your Firebird?

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Originally posted by CURTIS REED:
I'm only talking bottom.

They aren't allowed here and don't need it anyway. I have a tach. D1 is using buttons now anyway aren't they?

I'm sure that is for bottom bulbing. I've seen those and they are super cool for footbraking. You can set your idle kinda like a PTO on a wrecker. Really cool idea.

If you need every gadget known to man to get A-B, I guess you wouldn’t need a tach.

For those driving the car, a tach is pretty useful.

don't need, want. It's 2021, time to leave the 60s! Again, a tach is useless today in our race cars.

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Originally posted by Mike Nitzsche:

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Originally posted by CURTIS REED:
I'm only talking bottom.

They aren't allowed here and don't need it anyway. I have a tach. D1 is using buttons now anyway aren't they?

I'm sure that is for bottom bulbing. I've seen those and they are super cool for footbraking. You can set your idle kinda like a PTO on a wrecker. Really cool idea.

Yeah Mike I know what they are. You can't use them around here though.

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Originally posted by CURTIS REED:

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Originally posted by Mike Nitzsche:

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Originally posted by CURTIS REED:
I'm only talking bottom.

They aren't allowed here and don't need it anyway. I have a tach. D1 is using buttons now anyway aren't they?

I'm sure that is for bottom bulbing. I've seen those and they are super cool for footbraking. You can set your idle kinda like a PTO on a wrecker. Really cool idea.

Yeah Mike I know what they are. You can't use them around here though.

You can't bring the idle up in bottom bulb? Most of the guys I know were setting up chokes to hit the fast idle cam.