Originally Posted by crash_ash
feel a bit silly now, even considered setting the tacho to 2cyl and chopping the loom and driving the tacho off one of the coils, couldn't bring myself to do it.
That will work just fine if you want to do that pal.
Originally Posted by crash_ash
aah, hence the "tacho is now driven off the ecu, not the coil" and the strange way to route a wire from the ecu to the dash?
that has made it clear now

Yep, thats why mate.