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Old May 3, 2010 | 07:46 PM
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I swapped a 98 corvette ls1 computer and wireing harness into a 85 mustang.
The car will start up for about 5 seconds then it dies.
NO it is not the VATS
Norris looked at the car today, and we made use VATS was off.

I am looking for someone near Melbourne with a 98/97 vette I can either put their computer in my car, or my computer in their car to see if the problem is in my computer or wireing.
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Old May 3, 2010 | 09:34 PM
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did you check all your basic stuff?
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Old May 4, 2010 | 10:16 PM
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not for nothing but how did you rule out vats? i just had to go in to ecm to turn it off on a 240 with a swap that was doing the same thing
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Old May 4, 2010 | 11:42 PM
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dude, mike norris checked the vats...
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Old May 5, 2010 | 06:27 AM
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We turned VATS back on, and tried to start it, the car only ran for about 1 second. With the VATS disabled the car runs about 5 seconds.
All basics have been checked.
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Old May 5, 2010 | 12:29 PM
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does it die after 5 seconds, or immediatly after you drop it into gear? Did you keep keep the electronic TB or put on a cable one?
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Old May 8, 2010 | 04:25 PM
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OK problem solved and it was interesting.
Since I used 98 corvette stuff they have an extra thing in them called steering wheel lock out. This needs turned off. To turn this off you need to use HP Tuner cause LS1 edit does not do this. Car is running!
Thank you elcaminokid for having HP tuner and helping me out with this!
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Old May 8, 2010 | 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by groundczero
I swapped a 98 corvette ls1 computer and wireing harness into a 85 mustang.
The car will start up for about 5 seconds then it dies.
NO it is not the VATS
Norris looked at the car today, and we made use VATS was off.

I am looking for someone near Melbourne with a 98/97 vette I can either put their computer in my car, or my computer in their car to see if the problem is in my computer or wireing.
Wait Mike is in Central Florida???????????????
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Old May 8, 2010 | 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by RsSean
Wait Mike is in Central Florida???????????????

Mike was in Central FL last week. He is back in Indiana now.

I would also like to thank both Mike Norris and DOC for helping track down this wierd problem. Both these guys are great guys.
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