I Bought A Nismo Dash Cluster Of Someone On Sau

[GTRAAH]

First of all when i installed it Everything is fine but the idle sits at 1.5 When my old cluster was in there it was sitting at 1G. So what i did was swap the motor on the back of the rev taco and replaced it with my old one , So now its sits at 900 at idle i mean its closer then 1.5 But anyways i just noticed the rev taco is really slow i mean i put my foot down and it lags its not responsive at ALL Id push the throttle and it sounds like it reaches 5k-rpm and drops but because its so slow it doesnt even reach 5k it gets to 3k and by that time the rev is already back to idle so it makes its way back down again. FYI my speedo cable has snapped recently as well i dont know if that will make it lag so much! IM SO FRUSTRATED I spent 350 on this cluster i dont want to throw it in the f*kN BIN ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! what shall i do???

[DVS JEZ]

Guessing its a 32? Put the nismo motor back on the tacho and see if that reacts the same or works correctly.

Maybe your stock one isnt reading the idle correctly.

[GTRAAH]

but my taco was perfect when it was in the old cluster i dont get it, im using the same motor

[GTRAAH]

The reason i swapped it in the first place is because the nismo taco used to read 1.5k when it was really 1000-1100 and when i played with the rev counter it used to be floppy as in when i lifter the needle to 3k or whatever the needle would just drop back free fall instead of slowly go down. my oem taco didnt do that used to drop down slowly. maybe i didnt push the needle backin right?

[pistol-pete]

mmmm tacos

[tricstar]

I had exactly the same problem,

Here is the fix:

firstly I would put the nismo motor on the tacho back on then:

you need to take note of the idle with your standard dash, then pull the face off and back ( from memory ) so you can get to the back of the tacho inside the dash, there is a small calibration screw on the side of it, just adjust to match old one

make sure you have very clean hands and don't leave dust and stuff inside the dash.. cotton gloves if you have them to stop finger marks, I just made sure I didn't touch the inside screen.

If its just a tacho issue that should fix it.

Edited October 15, 2011 by tricstar

[GTRAAH]

I remember seeing that screw how the hell can you adjust it while its idling? anyways i think I fixed it, OMG its so fiddly, anyways it seems like the needle itself was not pushed in properly and was the reason its slow cause it was getting stuck at certain points.

Anyways when you put the needle back on the face how the hell do you know what position your meant to push it in, I actually had the car started and i pulled the needle off and pushed it back on at the right position. It was like Trial and error until i got it in the right position...

Anyways at the moment my idle taco shows 1000-1100, My power FC shows 980-1000-rpm... Is this normal?? Anyways im thinking of pulling the face off again and matching it to exactly what the power fc shows? Is that more correct then the actual taco itself?

[DVS JEZ]

I have noticed the power fc always shows lower than the dash tacho