best tachometer for kx500?

[stujordan]

best tachometer for kx500?  Affordable and easy to install?

[Brute]

I have a 'Trail Tech Vapor' (http://www.trailtech.net/digital-gauges/vapor) on mine. it has a digital tach and a bar graph. Both are fairly small to read but once you get used to the bar graph you can 'kind of' guess where you are. The part I like best is the yellow light for warning or shift point and the red light for danger or redline. Both are programable. The gauge is pretty small over all. Not too bad on the hook up. It has temp and ODO also.

[stujordan]

How u hook up the temp gauge?  Does it come with a temp sensor?

[alward25]

Temp sensor in line on your coolant hose, cut and splice.  Very straight forward.

[demographic]

I will be watching this thread with interest.

[stujordan]

Might be watchin for a while....havent $100 to spend on a tach/temp display this month

[Brute]

I originally bought the 'in the hose' adaptor but switched to the 'under the spark plug' style as it reads quicker. Had the choice when I bought it but changed my mind when it got here. Some folks here run both and have one for cylinder and one for head.
If you just want a tach 'Trail Tech' makes those also. One hot wire, one ground, one more wire that goes to the spark plug or coil for around $35.

[stujordan]

Which one reads the fastest...TTO from trail tech?

Did it come with the wires to connect to the spark plug or did u have to buy it seperate?

[alward25]

Check out the website,  www.trailtech.net.   It will give you the answers you need

[sandblaster]

The head changes temps the fastest and is hotter then the water temps.
It comes with everything you need but the mount.
The head sensor has a O-ring that when you remove your spark plug, you slip the ring on the bottom of the plug and screw the plug back in... Simple...
Take the gauge and double face tape it to your mount... Simple...
Go ride  

The Left gauge is the head temp, and the Right gauge is the water temp on the outlet.
I need a third on that shows me the water as it is exiting the head.

[Rougedante]

Old thread but interested in a guage...whats the average running temp for the head one? Ill prob order one of those and tht trail tech for a tach meter and hour meter.
Btw any analog tach meters fit the bikes

[sandblaster]

There are many factors that will make your head run from about 140 to 270.
Weather, humidity, fuel type, head mods, port mods, state of the cooling system, type of coolant, cooling system mods ect....
This is a great thread:

http://www.kxriders.com/forums/index.php/topic,11480.0.html

[Rougedante]

What would be better to have the head temp or water temp from the head

[sandblaster]

Head temp responds the quickest to changes and is the easiest to do.
Water temp out of the head is more difficult because you have very little room from the head outlet to the radiator inlet.
So really, you need a temp sensor on the rad where the coolant is going in from the head or you need one on the head.
MY water temps are all after the coolant has been cooled.... which isn't great but it's better then nothing.

[Rougedante]

With my swap ill have longer hoses so it will be easier to install for me. Now im gonna read tht link when I get off work and can pay attention better. But the little bit I read makes nooo sense to me hahaha. I have no cooling system knowledge. I just figured bigger radiator to hold more coolant and better cooling capibilities due to the more fins....