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Research and development at its finest. I am sure many racing systems were sorted on a lawn mower. It works for sure. Nice job.

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Wade Williams
Master Ferrari Tech
Restoration Tech
Engine Machinist
Fabricator
Racecar Driver

The machineshop foreman's been out a couple days, they should have an update for me today. I would really like to put the engine back together......a sink arrived the other day so not sure how much longer I can stay out of the basement.

The replacement WBO2 sensor came so both are working now. I couldn't help but play with the settings a little more so now they are working more better. I just need to spend a little time looking at the full model to be sure everything that was looking for the external innovate sensors is now looking at internal sensors. Also remembered I never calibrated the water temp gauge which is now controlled by the ECU so I took care of that.

I think this now just leaves the exhaust valve controller to setup but I'm not completely sure where I want to mount it. I think I'll run wires long enough to reach any reasonable location so I can get on with zip tying the harness and mounting the ecu, relay and fuss blocks. Then the center console is in place but not actually installed and few other things to deal with up there....I guess at least a week checking and fixing everything cabin related items....all important I guess but irrelevant when there is no engine so hopefully there is good news from the shop soon, the guy I talked to when I called sounded completely overwhelmed but hopefully I'm near the front of the line at this point.

I just tried to calibrate the tach and discovery it stops at 8k. Years ago the ferrari tach died and they are stupid expensive to get fixed so I bought a tach at the parts store, ripped out the guts and installed them in the ferrari housing. The numbers were close enough to right....but now I can program whatever I want so I added a calibration. Last run I played with the range I was using so it read mostly right but today I made the cal method better and loaded a little program to test it.....the tach stops at 8k. ☹️ I guess I figured that was fine when the redline was 7700....I'm going to need to buy a 10k tach and redo the guts swap it appears.

And a tach face reprint I would think. It goes all the way to 11.

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Wade Williams
Master Ferrari Tech
Restoration Tech
Engine Machinist
Fabricator
Racecar Driver

That is on the list....it has to go to 11

do you know a place to get it done?

Still no word on the block tach mods it is.

I did have a "spare"....which means a 2nd broken broken one all in bits...I think this is the original and badly faded, perfect for a redo.





Last time i worked on this I was looking for a tach with similar number spacing so it would read about right, but this time what I really need is enough sweep.  So, I made a high tech measurement



and went shopping on amazon

This one is better than what I have, but still not enough as I don't want to count on being able to drive it past the final number



Winner-winner chicken dinner, more than enough!  I wanted something smallish so I know the gut will clear the indicator lights at the bottom of the factory face so this seems perfect, even the screw holes look close, and just $14 delivered so its in budget. This is a 13k tach, but the numbers don't matter, I will use the ECU to calibrate it to match the new face.







Next I need to create the artwork I want on the face...it has the work art in it so its not really my thing but I'll give it a go.

Get it laser etched into a ceramic coating?

Do tell, I know nothing about that?

I have just discovered dry transfers...this may be the way.
https://imagetransfers.com/blog/custom-dry-transfers-vs-waterslide-decals-which-are-better/

edit - looks much cheaper, looks like $24 for 3 color zones on a 4x11? sheet which should be fine.
https://customrubontransfers.com/

edit2 - no wait...$24 is a base price them you pay per color, $64 for white, yellow, red.

That's because I made it up.



This is the first item on this car you haven't needed 12 of... you can splurge a little.