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You can't just hook up most tachs because of the ignition system, and there's no independent tach signal. It has to do with the coil being split into two parts; using a tach on the 4-cylinder setting will cause it to only read 1/2 of your RPMs. The only tach that doesn't need an adapter is one that can read 2-cylinder engines.