The tach on my A has a 'yellow' line at 5500 rpm and the redline at 6000. I
do have the original tach in place.
Gordie Bird
**>Deal List:
**>
**>This whole discussion makes one wonder about the meaning of the
**>redline is,
**>anyway. I assume it represented the point at which the cooling
**>system could
**>no longer dissipate heat at the rate that the engine produces
**>it. However,
**>in going through boxes and piles of used guages at different LBC
**>events, it
**>seemed that they all pretty much had the same redline at about
**>5500. Every
**>single one had the same redline, although the tachs were
**>allegedly for all
**>sorts of different marques with widely varying engines.
**>
**>I now suspect that the tachometer backgrounds were all printed
**>by the same
**>printer at the same time by Smiths, and BMC just ordered them all. Thus
**>regardles of where the engine should top out, all MG's seem to have about
**>the same redline. (They didn't alter the tach on cars with an
**>oil cooler,
**>did they?)
**>
**>Regards,
**>
**>Charles
**>'74 Midget
**>cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com
**>Bloomfield, NJ
**>
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