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Old Jul 7, 2008 | 12:13 AM
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hello everyone. i'm new to these forums and to American muscle. I bought a 1998 Camaro SS 6spd. the old owner told me that the engine blew so he replaced the engine with a used one that was out of an automatic car. the "service engine soon" light is on because of the automatic wiring harness. He told me there is some sort of plug in simulator that I can buy to fix this. does anyone know what this is called and where i can get it? he said it was around $30.00 for it.
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Old Jul 7, 2008 | 01:54 AM
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hello everyone. i'm new to these forums and to American muscle. I bought a 1998 Camaro SS 6spd. the old owner told me that the engine blew so he replaced the engine with a used one that was out of an automatic car. the "service engine soon" light is on because of the automatic wiring harness. He told me there is some sort of plug in simulator that I can buy to fix this. does anyone know what this is called and where i can get it? he said it was around $30.00 for it.
oh boy... there's a lot more to this and much more info is needed. what pcm is in the car? if just the engine's are swapped out there should be no problems... seems like it's something unrelated
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Old Jul 7, 2008 | 08:03 AM
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Go to autozone and have them read the code. You can start from there.
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sounds fishy
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Old Jul 8, 2008 | 10:06 AM
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unless he did a pcm swap too....there shouldnt be a problem. knowing the code would help too. does it have any running problems?
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