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Old 10-17-2010, 08:56 PM
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Helping a buddy finish up his LS swap into a 3rd gen Camaro.

Engine is a 2001 LS1, 2000 PCM auto car. Engine ran fine in donor car before pulled.

Flash forward, engine is in, fuel pressure is good, no DTCs, VATS disabled in tune, speartech harness, grounds tested good but no spark. Car will crank and crank but won't fire. We have power at the coils but appears they are not firing the plugs.

Fuses look good also all around.

Pretty dumbfounded at the moment. We have HPTuners and looked over any obvious stuff but nada.

Any ideas?
Old 10-17-2010, 09:10 PM
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We had the same issue when trying to fire my LS1 GTA back in '05... trying to remember what the hell it was we had to correct.
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Originally Posted by Blackbirdws6
Helping a buddy finish up his LS swap into a 3rd gen Camaro.

Engine is a 2001 LS1, 2000 PCM auto car. Engine ran fine in donor car before pulled.

Flash forward, engine is in, fuel pressure is good, no DTCs, VATS disabled in tune, speartech harness, grounds tested good but no spark. Car will crank and crank but won't fire. We have power at the coils but appears they are not firing the plugs.

Fuses look good also all around.

Pretty dumbfounded at the moment. We have HPTuners and looked over any obvious stuff but nada.

Any ideas?
Does it display RPM while cranking? Counts for the cam pos sensor?
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Displays RPM when cranking through two different scan tools. Replaced the crank sensor for giggles and same issue.
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Just to add, we swapped his pcm into my car and it fired up no problem...so the pcm isnt the issue. We also put a set of my coils onto his car and still did not get spark
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sounds like the pcm isnt grounding the coils! if u put good pcm and it worked then isnt it a bad pcm?



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