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vt calais tacho problem

LsCali

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I got a vt calais with a vz ls1. I just bought the car and on my first drive i realised that the tacho is showing a fraction of the actual rpm, at idle the needle is at 200 rpm. when i floor it its showing 2500 rpm before changing gears. Engine is running perfectly, everything else on the cluster works fine, no codes detected.
 

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What engine should be in it? Is it a v6 cluster? (Not sure whether they're different to v8's for the vt's)
 

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May be a miss match between the PCM, cluster and engine?
I dunno!!
In other words a "Cluster F###".
 

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The car was originally a v8 so its not an engine mismatch. from what i know everything is as it should be, only the engine has been changed. Maybe somebody has an example of a tacho input signal for different rpm, (frequency, voltage vs time) so i could eliminate the cluster or pcm. Also what inputs does the pcm use to calculate rpm?
 

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guess what? you can twist the needle manually to adjust it. Yep, if it's consistently out for the full range then it has probably been taken off before (with a fork slid underneath and pull) and then put back on a little bit out.

Easy fix, kinda, if you don't mind taking the cluster out. It's pretty easy, just a little time consuming.
 

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Changing the tacho resolution in the pcm solved the problem with the rpm. Couldnt explain why until yesterday when I removed the cluster and turns out it was swapped.
 
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