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Fiat 126 Chat => Tuning & Customising 126 Models => Topic started by: Gordan on December 10, 2008, 09:11:59 PM

Title: RPM meter?
Post by: Gordan on December 10, 2008, 09:11:59 PM

Has anyone on the forum installed a RPM meter on their 126, i plan to get myself one, so just wondering if its even possible...

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: nathan126 on December 10, 2008, 09:31:41 PM

I Stand corrected, but i think 126dave had one on "buzzbomb one"?
Hard to get hold of for 2cyl engines i think? but it's possible yeah  8)

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: Gordan on December 10, 2008, 10:57:57 PM

so there is a difference between 2 and 4 cyl? im just a newbie..  :(

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: Paulh81 on December 10, 2008, 11:29:57 PM

your best bet is a rev counter from a harley davidson sportster....

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: stuey on December 11, 2008, 07:35:27 AM

tomasz got some I have one in  my garage ready to fit available with white or black faces ill dig some linkage out for you..

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: Tomasz on December 11, 2008, 10:01:16 AM

Still havnt fit mine yet either!  I got them from Poland but i ordered a few because it was more cost effective.  Here is the blitz buggy link page which has the link to the company that make them http://pages.zoom.co.uk/blitzracing/links.htm it was quite a hastle arranging delivery etc but it worked out ok in the end!

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: bis13 on December 12, 2008, 11:46:20 PM

i have a rev meter for a diesel engine (lower rev scale). which runs by a sensor reading magnets which turn on the v belt pulley. where you would get one i really dont know though!!

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: 126dave on December 26, 2008, 02:46:49 AM

any 2 cylinder rev counter will do, a Harley sportster one is perfect, its used to vibration and low power out puts hehehehehe

seriously tho, it has a red line on 5500 rpm, which is spot on for an aircooled,and if you tune the motor, you can take it into the red....very satisfiying.....ive seen 7k rpm in anger with my mildly tuned 652cc !!......they do pop up on ebay from time to time...

i mounted mine in a (empty) boduelle bean can...then made a brkt to mount it above and to the left of the dash pod.....

the guy who has my ex blue buzzbomb 2 will have the wiring info inside the haynes manual i gave him, i wrote it inside the front cover.....

its a worthwhile mod...

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: Eklipze3k on January 31, 2009, 09:05:33 PM

Would this work then?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=170297888900

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: 126dave on February 02, 2009, 09:23:20 AM

yep thats the exact same one i had...........i fitted it into an empty bean can and then bracketed to the top of the dash pod.....

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: markie on February 11, 2009, 08:56:51 PM

Guys, Back in 1989 through to 1992 I used to run my old 126 back and forth to cardiff, upto nottingham and off folowing the Radio 1 Roadsow where I got smily miley to sign the bonnet.  I used to tweak the timing and run slik 50 through it and get it upto 85 mph on the motorway, hand throttle pulled right up and me relaxing with my feet out of the passenger window.

Wot sort of revs would that have been pushing?  is that why I got through 3 engines? 1 baked itself coz I dropped a spark plug into the cooling fan stripping the fins, 1 to a head gaskit and 1 catostophic failier when a piston shot out of the bottom of the sump as I made my way over bodmin moore!  :oops:

Good fun though!  8)

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: jon.hunt on February 22, 2009, 05:38:04 PM

Hi
   Yes        I have one of the One's from Tomasz and It works real great.

                                             Jon.

Title: Re: RPM meter?
Post by: bis13 on February 22, 2009, 11:19:24 PM

i suppose you could put that under "bits and pieces" markie!