How To Install A Shift Light
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- In this episode of Mighty Car Mods the boys show you how to install a shift light. And in true MCM style, there's something extra shifty about the install...
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This like, late 90s early 00s music video lookin wide angle video is crazy nostalgic. Amazing boys, your stuff was always such high quality. Incredible how similar the formula has stayed yet you manage to always keep it fresh.
The first time I watched this I had just woken up and thought that a shift light was a light near the tail lamps to tell other people that you're shifting.
HarkingFarkus me too
Same XD
Same😂
you guys are so fucking stupid
Same asf lmao, i thought "what a useless idea"
My car has a shift light. . . it tells me to shift up at 2500-3500 rpm, however. It's just there to patronize me to drive more economical -.-
Lol you got a Cruze too?
t436 nah, I got a 2010 Opel Corsa 3-door with glorious 1.2L 70hp and a 5 speed manual. It's slow, but I like it.
Behemothokun
I keep forgetting there's engines out there smaller than my 1.4T.
+t436 I've got a 1.0 fiesta ecoboost
+Behemothokun fit a v8 in it, i dunno how, i dunno why, but do it!
I laughed so hard when you said " and a pair of long nose pliers to find your willy on a cold day"!!!! EPIC hahaha
Could use the signal from your oil/water temperature sensors in the dashboard to actually control the shift-light speed, so if the engine was still cool the shift light would go off at like 2.5k, gradually increasing the "legal" speeds you could safely use as the temperatures climbed towards optimal range. Might need an Arduino in the middle for the conversion, but it would be pretty cool if your dashboard reminded you (and whoever else is driving your car every once in a while) to take it easy when the temps are not right yet.
"Fuck soldering" - Turbo Yoda
that turned out really well! I'd use a chip style led because they last longer and are less likely to short out. but, great placement!
You guys make it look easy...too easy.
I Love How Over In Aussie R34's Are Like Subarus Here In America. But To Us Americans We See A R34 On A Video And We FREAK OUT!
Subarus are extremely common in australia, silly american
Daniel Latham Did you hear that whooshing sound? No, it wasn't a blowoff valve, it was the point of his comment going right over your head, incredibly dense australian.
Haha.
I'm an Aussie and had no idea the r34's are that rare over there, that's pretty interesting.
Did they not deliver that many over there at the time or at all (guessing the ones around might be special imports) and i'm curious about all the other earlier models?
flavourboss Nah, it was worse than that bro, it was illegal to drive them here at all, pre-2006 model. You technically could bring one over and drive it, but the first time you got pulled over and the man realized the car didn't meet DOT legalities (crash test, emissions, etc) ... turn out the lights, the parties over. Just wasn't worth it.
I had heard you could jump through about a million hoops and dish out some serious $$ to get one of the old ones street legal in some states, but I never investigated that myself, so it could be more fiction than fact.
I
iambiggus Thats bizarre, do you know why exactly it didn't meet standards over there?
Was it in a bid to protect domestic performance car sales or something, shelter the mustangs and corvettes from the japanese storm?
What about Sti cars of the same era?
cant wait to get this installed in my 2001 supra auto
auto :(
eoin730 gotcha! Jusk kidding
Lol auto 😂
lost me at auto
AUTO AUTO AUTO
Mario kart edition! Just when I thought skylines couldn't get any better. But seriously I laughed so hard when I saw that. Love the skylines!
Mario Kart Edition was a real thing... It was sold when Mario Kart came out for the gamecube.
Hope Rake is still loving it
you guys probably should have jacked up the car first?
Has anybody else had ONLY Mighty Car Mods in their "Featured" video list? Because this is all I've seen in there for the past month.
I would use a green light for the shift and wire in a second red one indicating when I hit redline.
Well, you'd have to find the RPM signal wire. If you have a distributor, it's usually on there somewhere. The engine uses it for rev limiter purposes. You splice into that with the green wire, red wire is power (12v) and black is ground.
scotty cranmer would fall in love with this car hahahaah
_.Dank.Memes._ get well soon Scotty
It's a shame these Skylines are illegal in the US.
But why
Killerkip I 25 Year import law.
Something with safety isn't it?
Xample: CSGO Yep, Nissan didn't want to put ir through the safety test
+Nate Holm it doesn't have proper safety features and it doesn't have proper emissions features
I reallly like the creativity they put into it.
that is very impressive fitting and way to wire it up.Iv seen those dash board alarm clock just was waiting for you to pull one of them out of a box.!Might want to be careful of that soldering iron l know a person who dropped a cigar while driving , l haven't seen someone respond so fast before ....Hole in pants but save the seats ... good save !
always get pumped and ready when the intro comes on
but how the hell does he find out what wires do what ?
Thats what i said.
I think that he turned on the car and tested each wire while increasing the rpm, maybe the voltage change as the rpm increase..
Pretty sure that in the manual of your car you can get the answer
you test the voltage of each wire. The owners manual should tell you the voltage of each wire and what it does. There was no figuring out.
you forgot to mention that an led has a cathode and anode contacts, cathode being the + and anode the - if the polarity is not hooked up right right the light won't turn on, just y two cents
You're right but the LED was already connected to the circuit and the circuit will have a clearly written positive and negative side
Man oh MAN! All i need now is for you to show me how to mod my car to yell 'Perfect Shift!' or say 'Sloppy Shift' and ive got a need for speed mod. do that mod next!
Abba Elohi
Instructions: Get a kid from the street and force them to say perfect shift when shifting at 6,000 rpm
Thats the coolest mod Ive seen in a while :). Way to go MCM!
wow, from hot glue guns to 11 second wagons....
Very cool take on the shift light install. Looks a lot nicer than that big thing on the dashboard
Is there a light to remind me i didn't check off the right box when ordering my car and got a automatic instead?
Don't say that, I have a two speed automatic and it ain't bad. A little sluggish sometimes, but once it hits high gear, that shit don't kid around.
OMFG I can't get a enough of these.
I'm not a gearhead by any stretch of the imagination but I'm LOVING the MCM series.
Huge LoL about getting through your local KFC drive through comment :D
Can someone *PLEASE* make a GIF out of Moog saying "mad"?
do it yourself.
DIY
+BrieoRobino stop being a bitch
a gif doesnt have sound
Marty, Moog, I’m from the future. Just wanted to let you know your graphics, and such get much better in 2018
i would use shrink tubing instead of tape. kinda surprised that you used tape, yuck
well they had a soldering iron. .cut wire, slide tubing on, make connection properly, solder, slide and shrink the tubing. properly done everything is peachy and much cleaner than tape. some will argue cutting the wire but i would do it that way. i hate electrical tape for doing stuff like this. it gives a messy look imo and tubing is better. "but you never see it", ya well for me thats not the issue. never said they are wrong i just woulda done that bit different. guess i should have included the part about cutting the wire in first comment :P
squishydafishy it's hard to say this, but i think tape works just as good in this scenario. there's also the other wires tightly packed to hold the tape in place.
the best way would be to have a dyno chart on your car. you can see the amount of RPM drop when shifting though each gear and look at your dyno chart and make sure you are staying in the peak power range. if your car is pretty stock or at least stock cams (if your N/A and not turbo) you can just go online and look up a dyno chart of your exact engine. make sure your are shifting in the area just before your power drops and make sure when the RPM's change from changing up your still in the power
92 ppl f-ed up their dash :))
in all honesty y'all just inspired me to do something unique and awesome
instructions unclear, revved by 1993 honda civic to 11,000 rpm and caused a rip in the space time continuum
"some long nose pliers, helps to find your willy if it's small or very cold" LOL [1:20]
Why not just install it at your feet.A glow from underneath seems okay I mean cause at night the dash will already be pretty bright and swapping out the factory dash light bulbs for LED ones is a pretty common mod no a days.
Except the last place you'd probably want to divert your eyes while driving fast at a track or drag strip would be down at your feet. Think it needs to be more in your peripheral range
ehjhey7
you right, I wasn't thinking. Okay so how about right above your head, so it glows like you got that thinking light bulb above your head and you do it without having to take your eyes off the road at all? Bam!!!
james hawkins It would still probably be the same difference. You would have a hard time noticing it unless using it at night, and you dont want to look up while on a track, or whatever it is you'd do.
*****
Shit son I guess they got it the best. Just seems like a lot of work. O well.
james hawkins If its too bright for you at night when it flashes, if you have the dial somewhere easily accessible then you can always whack it all the way up to max rpm, that way it wont go off until you hit it and unless you're insane its unlikely you'll hit 8k rpm
Lmfao "Mario Kart edition" xD Been watching these whenever I can for the past three days, I'm addicted
Dat Skyline though. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad
Slow as fuck
V4 Garage stock bro..
GTT not a GT-R its just a slow piece of shit.
ThatCarDude I thought GTT's were fairly quick. Especially compared to a 25GT.
Well, you'd have to find the RPM signal wire. If you have a distributor, it's usually on there somewhere. The engine uses it for rev limiter purposes. You splice into that with the green wire, red wire is power (12v) and black is ground. I'm not 100% sure, but I think with Honda's you can swap in a cluster from say, a civic EX that has a tacho, and it may work.
Looking back at your old videos, i can't believe you used that intro, it's so hilariously bad.
Thx for making this problem a easy fix...thx to you i have some new idea's for my son's racecar.
And Rake loves it!
How much for the Skyline? Melbourne, Australia.
***** Yes.
If you do have a turbo car you can still use this method if you have the stock turbo on your car still as the spool of the turbo should stay about the same. if you do have an upgraded turbo be sure to try and find a car modded similer to yours. (cams and turbo size. these are the two that will change your power band the most) of course taking your car to a dyno and getting a print out of your car would be idea but sometimes not in the budget. Remember max power is not always shifting at redline
My bike has a stock shift light, that has 5LEDs that come on 1 by 1 as you are getting closer to needing to shift then the last light comes on and they all start blinking.
Yeah, my 92 camaro rs has a stock shift light but is set for just daily driving from the factory.
Anyone of these people on this site could show up in my driveway 2morrow knowing ahead of time, that i do NOT like this style of car, BUT i would still look over everything they have done and talk about the car with them for as long as they like because that,s what real car guys do u may not have the same taste BUT u both know what it takes to do the work so u have a mutual respect for one another BUT u will still hammer on each other.
This is not how it works. The optimal rpm is not the same for every gear, normally the optimal shift comes at a lower rpm for each gear, in order for the engine to use a narrower and narrower part of the power band.
This is easy to see if you overlay the power curves for each gear. You can build these power curves if you have the gearing ratios and the power curve for the engine.
On my bike, (CBR600 F4i), this means that going from first to second, I should rev it to ~14100rpm, while going from fifth to sixth, I should rev ~12500rpm.
I have created a tool in javascript for showing optimal shifts and comparing power for different engine types. github.com/snigel/MoreThanDyno
When setting up the shift light you need to factor in reaction time of the driver. So you should have it light early then depending on the gear you are in the reaction time adds rpm. Also reaction times are really only useful for changes into 2nd and maybe 3rd (in a majority of vehicles). Beyond that you will have plenty of time to realise what speed you are doing.
The reaction time does not change the fact that the optimal RPM is changing between gears.
that makes no sense whatsoever.
Could you elaborate?
I'm sure they sell programmable shift lights you can gut and retrofit for ur bike.
MAN THESE GUYS ARE HILARIOUS!
luckily skylines are legal in Canada so no problem for me
+stefan gostovic In Europe too
+stefan gostovic I've never seen an R34 though, I see R32's and GTR's all the time
+stefan gostovic And we also have import laws, which are 15 years compared to America's 25 years or older law. So no, R34's aren't legal in Canada, we can have R32's but so can Americans now
my neighbor had a r34
Either you don't know what a R34 is or you're bullshitting, because R34's are illegal here just like in the states
when the power starts dropping up the rev range, optimally you're looking to accelerate between peak torque till peak bhp, basically the shift light should be set at the top of the powerbands range, to get this sort of information its best to have a dyno printout
Watched because r-34
Seekone Photography same
For those wanting to do this you can buy a digital (vs. the not-as-accurate knob) and have it turn on a light like this, beep your horn, whatever you want, and you can buy them from Summit or the like for the same price as the shift light they used.
Clicked on the video because the thumbnail had a Skyline
Sukith Wehella same
Marty, one thing. When your done soildering you use normal tape? You should try vulcanic tape. It's easier to applie, and when applied it feels like 1 solid 'shield'.
Wow, just messing with the skyline like its just another one.. And were here in USA dreamed of having one :(
I'm pretty sure Canada imported LHD Skylines during the '90s, but stopped at the R33. Most Skylines are RHD because they were imported later when LHD ones started becoming hard to find as people were using them for track, or they just became worn out.
Lol, i forgot they lived in Australia
Should do a video on swapping out all dash lights. Like the the gauge cluster and all buttons. It was a pain in the ass for me going it alone. Worth it though.
d00d wtf! I would never do that to a nissan skyline. There are other alternatives to install a decent gear meter. you just put a hole in a nice car. poor baby. :[
Their Skyline. Not yours.
go cry about it...
in a nice car's instrument cluster that cant even be seen and most would assume would be from the factory*
apparently skylines these are pretty common in not America :(
shadowrundas
YODA!?
The banter is so real.
Lol gtt....gtr is better....
And a lot more expensive....
ifakker a gtr is like 35 grande more expensive
ifakker Rear Wheel Drive = Fun
ifakker what do you drive?
+Zach D'Anna his moms 1999 Honda Civic
"Long nose pliers for you to help you find your willie if its small and very cold" LMAO.
The "T" in GT-T stands for Turbo. It has the RB25DET single turbo engine. The GT-R has the RB26DETT twin-turbo.
Just saw this recent post of yours, I see someone else got to you before I did so I take back my comment. ;) cheerio.
Martin seems to do all the work in every vid
The headlights are yellow on an r34, keep it looking great. The easiest fix Is dipping a cloth in you're power steering reservoir and rubbing it on the headlights.
Dipping a cloth into any R-Chassis power steering reservoir = still a dry cloth though
how is this channel not called "MAD car mods."
I understand. Take a look at the 2012 Ferrari F12 Berlinetta Tail Light. It's round as well, but it fits into the body, not like this, a couple of round lights that fit into a piece the fits into the body. If they fit into the body, it would be far more appealing to the eye. That's all I was trying to say.
isn't the optimum shift time different between gears? i always thought that when these come built in by the manufacturer there would be a lot of computation involved to determine the optimum shift time
Optimum shift time in a racing situation is just before the redline
+LoganThe Llama Depends on the car.
Dylan Greene It's just before the redline. That's when the engine can't really produce any more power in that gear, so you shift
LoganThe Llama If an engine is say under turbo'ed, it may run out of puff 1000 revs or more before the redline, then it's more prudent to change gear so as not to waste the power band of the next gear. Most modern eco cars have cam lobes cut to produce power very low down and also run out of power at the top (though variable valve timing helps), to keep the car in the power, you can also change gear earlier. Unless you have had your car on a dyno to see the exact power curve, you won't know the most efficient shifting point either.
+Dylan Greene yes, all the boring old road cars i know have their max torque way before the redline. my last car peaked at around 5,5k, according to both the spec sheet and driving experience. BUT -the only thing i really want to know is: does the gear you're currently in affect the optimum shift point? because i can't really see it being one exact rev number throughout the gears unless the gearbox is tailored exactly to that individual engine
4:46 soldering in an R34 skyline and drips solder onto floor.
well done
His channel says it all man.
Exception is my point, u gave me an example here,s mine: u have never been out with a friend(s) 2 say a car show or a local hangout & seen a car u don,t like paint,rims,mods etc,and u walk away & say 2 ur buddy man i don,t like what he has done it,s not my taste? but u can still RESPECT the WORK he has put into it? u don,t have 2 like or agree with someone 2 still respect the effort.i guarantee it happen,s many times with people. u r trying 2 define it in ur own view not mine.
I love when the countdown freezes but the ad doesn't so I can't skip it
to true my bad but just because the dash says it can go 180 doesn't mean it will come close, it could go even faster its not restricting anything. all silvias say they can only go 180 as well its just a definitive design in Nissan.
No need to cut and solder wires, there is 3 screws on the back of the tacho that are + ground and Signal. Spades connectors work great for this..
Hahahaha had me ctfu "kept a tally of how many subbies hes beat" love it!!!
I love this video skyline is the car I've always wanted/want im going to do the shift life on my 97 Audi quattro, I would like to see you guys do something with a 97 or 98 Audi quattro and see what you think bout it.
MCM needs an MX3 on the show!!! JDM maaaaaad-ness
some long nose pliers helps to find your willy if its small and very cold
haha XD i love him
That's pretty cool, i like that a lot actually. I may do this now!
GTS-T was only for the R33 Skylines.
GT-Ts are rear wheel drive and have a 2.5 litre engine with a single turbo, whereas GT-Rs have AWD, twin turbo 2.6 litre engines as well as 4 wheel steering.
Such a beautiful sound.
Even if they wanted to, they can't at the moment; Rake posted on the forum that he crashed it and the insurance didn't pay out, so he's had to wait about 6 months to both fix the damage and find a new front bumper. It's fully repaired now though.
Still sounds excellent! Hope they continue to make Inline-6 Engines, BMW gave up also..Inline-6 is balance and sounds good but is too long, that why Nissan mainly manufacture V6, which can be as short as half of a I6
I hate the shift light in my 2013 Focus ST and I hated it in my old 91 wrangler, but neither of those are any kinda drag car or anything. Maybe it's best to have one in a GTR, I don't know. Beautiful car.
This is my favorite intro sequence, followed by season 4 (the one with the golf?)
And its used for street racing, nice one dude :)
My instrument cluster was hot glued in by the previous owner. It was kept pretty tidy apart from the hot glue they were a little too fond of.
tach signal into the shift light? are you splicing the tacho harness and then continueing the wire as it proceeded into the cluster? for example; tach wire> split into shift light, and into original harness to be plugged in? is the the tach signal your trying to find just hold amperage and not engine revolution data? I know the description says "
This video is intended as Entertainment only." but i'd love to know
1:02 These are the things you're going to need , "Some long nose pliers, helps to find your "willy" when its small and very cold".
Truly inspirational if you ask me.
long nosed pliers joke caught me off guard. I love the stupid humour they add to these vids!
Pretty sure It's illegal to mess with your instrument cluster here in the US, but this is a clean, well done mod.
no... it is absolutely not, how else do you change a blown out bulb.
im from canada too brotha and they just became legal to import this year!
Marty is a MAAAAAAD genius.
all im saying is that if someone and i like the car, not everyone must like it, btw yes it is a rwd but it also has a mode to activate 4wd/awd, also the car has a programming to automatically engage 4wd/awd when it thinks the car is losing control, however you can disable it ;)
Yall got me I went n looked up the R34 GTT Mario Kart Edition online to see if it was real almost got me you cheeky bastard almost got me! Because car manufacturers do sometimes do one off's to promote things (movies, games, other weird shit) and I was like theres no fucking way there is a Mario Kart R34 and I haven't heard of it xD
You guys are so lucky for having a skyline I want one so bad
@ 04:05 Just incase anyone with an old car tries to run the tacho off the distributor like marty said - it's the coil you want to run it off.