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Old Oct 14, 2006 | 11:15 PM
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I was at the track today to try out the new engine made a couple passes on dr's swapped out to the e.t. streets to make a couple of good passes. do my burn out get to the line and stage. lights green i go for about 20ft and then the security light comes on kills the car, goes off car goes again, it does this three times down the track. so i tried again same thing. got on it coming home and the same damn thing security light will come on and I'll lose tach signal. pcmsforless disabled my vats so this shouldn't be an issue anyone have any idea wtf is going on?
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Old Oct 15, 2006 | 10:16 AM
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damn. no ones ever had this problem?
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Old Oct 15, 2006 | 10:19 AM
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Sounds crazy, never heard of this before.
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Old Oct 15, 2006 | 12:06 PM
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the actual vats module althought disabled is still on the car so there may be a short somewhere in the system
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Old Oct 15, 2006 | 01:37 PM
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I found the problem it was me being a dumbass. the bolts that hold the coil and some ground wires to the front of the cylinder head were loose. re tightend no more problems.
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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 12:03 AM
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Damn,,, I thought you had a vats story. I'll never foget the time I was stuck in the middle of no where for 3 hours because of a damned security light.
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Originally Posted by Heatmaker
Damn,,, I thought you had a vats story. I'll never foget the time I was stuck in the middle of no where for 3 hours because of a damned security light.
wanna tell us the story? the problem? the fix?
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