How should I mount my msd box?

[photoeye0]

I'll be putting in a MSD 6-al with a 2 step limiter soon. I was wondering if they get hot, cuz I would like to put in the my glove box. Or if I mount it under the hood. How do they deal with the elements (water, dirt, snow, and stuff)? Fell free to post pix of how you did it.

Thanks for lookin'

[Lex]

I mounted mine inside the engine bay on the driver side fender near the headlight right above the cone filter.

[therieldeal]

ive heard of people mounting them within the cabin and having no ill effects. i'll be mounting mine under my dashboard near the ECU.

-jon

[photoeye0]

Well I think I'm going to give it a shot inside the car. If I remember to grab my camera I'll post up some install pic.

[photoeye0]

So I put the box in and I have to buy a tach adaptor, but I thought you didn't need one

And does anyone else's make noise???

[therieldeal]

yeah you do need a tach adapter to use the stock tach

[mazda terd box]

what kind of tach adaptor are you going to get?

[therieldeal]

i got the one that was reccomended to me by Matt, who built my megasquirt (and who runs a MS2 and MSD in his mx3). its around here somewhere....

[photoeye0]

I went out side to dick with it again and my SAFC has a tach read out!! WTF

[therieldeal]

MSD TACH ADAPTER
Part No. 8910

[therieldeal]

the MSD tach signal can be interpreted by a lot of aftermarket tachs without using an adapter. obviously the SAFC falls under that category

-jon

[photoeye0]

Ok cool

But now I have to remount it cuz that noise is going to make me go nutz.

[therieldeal]

what kind of noise does it make? no one ever mentioned it to me

[photoeye0]

It sounds like a relay clicking with every rotion.

[photoeye0]

Alright so I drove the car home (about 15min) and on the way to tach read on my SAFC quit working.

Is my box junk or WTF did I do wrong.

EDIT: So I did some research and that buzzing is normal, so I might have to just mount it outside. But I'm still confused about the tach read on my afc.