Allright I just wanna say this is my first time trying to post anything as far as a "How to guide" so we'll see how this goes. I am not a big fan of these things but after a trip to the track the other day and after my girlfriend took the car down the track and smoked my clutch I figured it couldnt hurt!




The install went really well, not a whole lot of troubles getting it on. Hardest thing was getting the damn wires through the firewall.

anyways, I took a butt load of pictures so here it goes.....

allright first thing i did was line up the Shift light to where I wanted it, I tried to line it up as best as I could so it would be flush with the boost guage.



after i lined it up i took off the pillar and drilled the holes, too easy



http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...p/100_1820.jpg

Next I mounted the brakcet and installed the actual light, the only problem I found with this was that the thing came with screws instead of bolts for attaching it to the column so I will be changing this later but it works for now....




allright next thing was to run the cables down thru the dash and then out the firewall, like I said this part was the biggest pain in the **** I had , but once it was through the rest was cake......All you have to do is attach the GMR pickup to one of the ignition coils and run one line to a switched power source and your done....



thats the magnetic pick-up....no splicing needed


if you go to the number 4 cylinder make sure you hook up the gmr to the BROWN AND WHITE cable....

and here it is installed, on the digital read out its kinda hard to see in these pictures i will take better ones if anybody wants em but it dispalys your RPMs constantly or you can shut it off and its really g-damned brite!!!!!!!!

 

very good write up. this is my next mod.

 

WOW! Great write up. Those pics are sharp. Looks good. How much was the light?

 

thanks, the light actually retailed for like 155 but I got it for 100. They are kinda hard to find too they are new to the cataloge this year. I had actually bought a Raptor shift light but after I saw the GMR pickup i know it cost more but its worth it.

 

do u have the side airbags behind the pillar? i want to mount a light there but i dont wanna mess with the airbags

 

another opition is raptor performance. it is less for red other colors. the blue led is little more expensive cause of the blue leds cost more. should see it friday and install on the weekend. to see what it looks like installed on a cobalt go to My CARDOMAIN link and look at page 5. dont forget to vote to get my rating up lol (I dont really care about that stuff)

 

cant be put there with air bags but I would put it in one of the center dash vents. it would be very stealthy.

 

could u describe how you wired the light in for power?

 

nice write up

but i would of used 2 way tape instead of drilling holes just my 2 cents

 

were the hell can you pick up a pillers with the pods? ive been looking everywhere for them! No one around here has any. Damn....

 

Nice Write up. Is their anyway to install it with out drilling holes in the pillar?
My car is a lease and I have the airbags in the pillar too, but I would really like this mod.

Thanks

Phil

 

use some good two way tape and you wont have to drill holes, although it wont be as clean as an install

 

Cool thanks, I also was looking into installing it in the Drivers side AC Vent.

I am currently looking to see how hard it would be. but If I do it I will post all the pics of the install.

If I install it in their nobody will see any holes and when I bring the car back Its easy removal and I can fill the hols in with some black Silicone Glue

 

When I installed my gf's viper alarm in her 04 zr2 blazer I put the alarm led in the d/s air vent. i didn't want to drill any holes.

 

Got in pics of the install during the day

 

thats a nice light, i like that more than the raptor

 

sounds like the easiest light out yet

 

so if u have side airbags, which i do, i cant take off pillar???

 

The side air bags are not in the pillar so don't worry about it. They are in the headliner.

 

ok well....i hooked up and i started it up and it started sputtering really bad and than i shut it off and the display on the dash said engine power reduced, someone help???

 

lol............

 

Your an ass!!!! He wants help moron not your laughing.

Make sure you hooked up the pick up to the correct wire.

 

I wouldn't worry about it man. That post was over a year ago. I hope he got everything taken care of by now.

P.S. Bringing back dead threads make babies cry.

 

Nice writ up