[6pack] electric or mechanical

[Foster, Stan (HP IT)]

John, you should be able to source a good used tach for under $50.

Re aux lighting, I think the early cars look better with the lamps above the
bumper, the later cars with lamps below the bumper. I bought some small Cibie
FOG lamps from a fellow club member a few years ago. These use H2 bulbs and
they are fantastic. These lamps mounted low really light up the road ahead and
don't seem to bother oncoming motorists.

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/foster461/TR6/REDTR6/DSC_0007.jpg

Rear LED strip for an additional brake light is a good idea. We are seeing
more cars getting rear ended at intersections because people don't see them
though the other distractions (phone, texting, shaving, eating, reading,
poking at the GPS etc). I saw a nice thin LED strip that goes under a roll bar
the other day (thanks again Dennis)

http://www.jandlenterprise.com/products/brakelighter.htm

 If you have 10 mins to waste play this video and look for the Topaz TR6 with
the hardtop, it has one of these strips installed.

http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/foster461/NETFallTour2009/?action=view
&current=NET2009FallTourTake3.flv

Stan

-----Original Message-----
From: 6pack-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:6pack-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of John Summers
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:50 AM
To: 6pack at autox.team.net
Subject: [6pack] electric or mechanical

Since my tach cable somehow wrapped itself around my steering column a year
ago and broke.  And since the tach needle was only 1/4" long when I got the
car 11 years ago I'm thinking about what to do.  Should I replace just the
cable?  Or should I buy a new, modern tach?  I don't want to pay big bucks
for
something that would be like original equipment.  Actually the big dream is
to
replace all of the instruments and rearrange their placement.  Something
closer to eyesight for the speedo and small gauges.  I rely more on the small
gauges than I do the tach anyway. They tell me my car is "healthy" and with a
35 year old car that is more important to me than how fast I'm going.
Another
issue is driving lights.  I have old rectangle Hella lights mounted on top of
the bumper.  They are a little big.  Does anyone have any experience with the
smaller lights you see in Pep Boys?  One of which is LED.  I have also seen
cars with the thin maybe 2'
 light strips on the rear of the car.  As we know we all need more luminance
back there just to be seen.  My idea is to attach the strip just under the
lip
of the trunk lid and attach it to the brake lights.  Too ambitious?
Certianly
FOR ME it is but what about the idea?John SummersJacksonville
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