To add to Tods post. Daddy Tiger aka Paul Breuhan (prbreuhan@hotmail.com) can
fix the fonts on the face of the tach to appear stock and say 8cylinder,
negative earth etc etc- you would have to ask but he might be abe to change
the face to whatever redline you desire BUT he has to respond to that thought.
His work is excellent and his prices more than fair. This would be a
discussion to be had with Tom or Theo on what their electronics are capable of
and with Paul to see who needs to do their work first. I know many
engines redline above any Sunbeam tach's face. Just my 2 cents worth.
--- On Thu, 2/18/10, Tod Brown <todbrown@roadrunner.com> wrote:
From: Tod Brown <todbrown@roadrunner.com>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tach Help
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010, 2:03 PM
Tom Hall and Theo Smit have put together a wonderful bit of electronics, as
others have said, to make the original tach in your Tiger work well and
reliably. If you need a tach with a bit more range, you can get one from a
Series IV Alpine and use its face to replace the one in the stock tach. The
lettering on the face matches that on the MkI and MkIA Tigers and it reads to
6000 with a red line at 5500. It looks correct except for the small lettering
which reads 4 cyl, positive earth, which is hardly noticeable. Only a purist
or Jim Armstrong would object. For a MkII Tiger, you can use a Series V
Alpine tach to match the font. The small lettering reads 4 cyl, negative
earth. You could probably get a rub-on numeral '8' to make it look even more
proper. The Series V Alpine tach reads to 7000 with a red line at 6000. What
makes the face switching possible is the board that Tom and Theo provide.
Using the PCB, they can calibrate your tach
to read correctly with any of the above-mentioned faces, or they can
calibrate the Alpine tach to work on your Tiger. My Tiger has its original
260, albeit with a hipo cam and a Pertronix setup in an old Mallory YL dual
point distributor, so 5500 is a nice, useful red line.
Cheers,
Tod
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