shift light: where did you mount yours?
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Melting Slicks
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From: Deltona (son of Deland and DAYTONA) FL
shift light: where did you mount yours?
we don't have a lot of room in our cars. Here is where mine is. Anyone else have pics? Now I can get rid of that blue piece of tape on my tach window 
http://photobucket.com/albums/y273/m...t=DSCF0806.jpg
http://photobucket.com/albums/y273/m...t=DSCF0806.jpg
Le Mans Master
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St. Jude Donor '07
Mine is mounted on the pillar next to the steering wheel. Right in my face, but does not affect driving. Check My Corvette Pictures
Last edited by Budman68; Dec 28, 2005 at 11:30 PM.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Deltona (son of Deland and DAYTONA) FL
Originally Posted by JoeRags
I dont like them. I'll tell myself when to shift.
just my opinion
just my opinion
The weird part is, the tranny is an automatic, but doesn't always shift at the same RPM. I think it is sensitive to fluid temps.
Budman: that's not a bad place to mount it either
Last edited by isosceles; Dec 29, 2005 at 01:43 AM.
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Mine is right on top of the steering column. I never have to take my eyes off thetrack or road. Besides the stock tachs sucks and bounces aroung a lot so you never really know what rpm it is at when going through the gears. Very consistant shifting and times since the light was put in.
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Originally Posted by Gordonm
Mine is right on top of the steering column. I never have to take my eyes off thetrack or road. Besides the stock tachs sucks and bounces aroung a lot so you never really know what rpm it is at when going through the gears. Very consistant shifting and times since the light was put in.
Same place on mine. If you have your eyes open, you will see it...lol
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Originally Posted by JoeRags
I dont like them. I'll tell myself when to shift.
just my opinion
just my opinion
Last edited by Budman68; Dec 29, 2005 at 09:43 AM.
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Funny - I bought an MSD shift light from Summit when I first built the stroker. Over and over again, I tried locations for it and never liked them. It's still in a box three years later, unused (except for testing it to see if it worked!)
I have one for oil pressure one for water temp and one for water pressure.
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From: Cleveland Ohio
Top of the steering column.
Us it when racing for shifting on the road courses and to let me know what the rpm is when autocrossing. Bought one with the rpm pills to adjust when it turns on. Have changed pills in-between runs at autocrosses because I did not want to shift out of first gear. I will bump the light on and off instead of shifting.
Us it when racing for shifting on the road courses and to let me know what the rpm is when autocrossing. Bought one with the rpm pills to adjust when it turns on. Have changed pills in-between runs at autocrosses because I did not want to shift out of first gear. I will bump the light on and off instead of shifting.
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Not C3, but here is the shift-light install on my '79 Z28:
I made the mounting bracket from a scrap piece of sheet-steel, using a band-saw, file, hammer and vise:
I also put a 'shorud' around the lens (basically, the lens cover from an older/broken shift-light..... note Black electrical tape and sheet-metal screw-heads ), so that sunlight on-top-of/behind me doesn't play a factor in not seeing it when racing.
I intended to mount another light in the nearer hole (under the dash-lip ), for 000% chance of not seeing the flash instantly, but have decided to not race the Z28 much-anymore.
For a C3, with a much-shorter dash-board, and steeper windshield angle, this would be much-more difficult, as your hands/knuckles might bump the shift-light:
as stated above, I'd consider a mounting bracket off the front of the firewall, and an exterior-location, or 'under'/'inside' the rear of a high-rise, cowl-induction hood.
I made the mounting bracket from a scrap piece of sheet-steel, using a band-saw, file, hammer and vise:
I also put a 'shorud' around the lens (basically, the lens cover from an older/broken shift-light..... note Black electrical tape and sheet-metal screw-heads ), so that sunlight on-top-of/behind me doesn't play a factor in not seeing it when racing.
I intended to mount another light in the nearer hole (under the dash-lip ), for 000% chance of not seeing the flash instantly, but have decided to not race the Z28 much-anymore.
For a C3, with a much-shorter dash-board, and steeper windshield angle, this would be much-more difficult, as your hands/knuckles might bump the shift-light:
as stated above, I'd consider a mounting bracket off the front of the firewall, and an exterior-location, or 'under'/'inside' the rear of a high-rise, cowl-induction hood.
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From: North Port, FL
Like several of the others I have mine on top of my steering column and it is bright enough that I can keep my eyes on the track. The link below shows it in action. (Please don't mind the granny shifts it was one of the first times at the track with my TKO 600 and I was still getting use to it).
shift light in action
shift light in action
