3sgte Post Swap Starter Problem Solved, She's Alllive! Options

[Chanh55]

As some of you know I took the 3sgte set up from a working 6gc (originally manual) and swapped it into my 6g (automatic). When the wiring harness was made, it was intended for a manual and not for an automatic transmission. For those of you that have automatic transmissions and want to do a 3sgte + manual tranny swap, this is for you.

Original Thread: http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?act=ST...t=0#entry407839

So after calling Dr. Tweak, he suggested the following:

"Near the ECU, there is the II2 connector, and on pin 18 of the car's connector side, you'll find a black wire with a yellow stripe. That wire needs to be connected to a black wire that comes from pin 2 of the starter relay, you can probably find this wire by looking under the relay box and/or using the ohm-meter. Once those two wires are connected, it should start. "

Here's what I did: tapped into the black/yellow wire (car side) and ran it to the ST relay in the fuse box. Instead of taking the fuse out, I tapped into the wire that is connected to pin 2 of the relay which was a black wire.

Now she lives... but 2 problems.

1. I don't have a mid/ flex pipe yet, so it's freaking loud... I'm talking setting off car alarms across the street loud.
2. As soon as the key hits the "ON" position, something is making a rather loud "ZzZZZZ" sound. I suspect the starter... maybe a relay or something isn't doing it's job.

This post has been edited by Chanh55: Mar 17, 2006 - 12:14 PM

[GT4WRC]

2. As soon as the key hits the "ON" position, something is making a rather loud "ZzZZZZ" sound. I suspect the starter... maybe a relay or something isn't doing it's job.

Does the noise stop after a few seconds? If yes, it'll be the stepper motor on the throttle body. Perfectly normal.
Gary

[Chanh55]

Sweet the problem is completely fixed!

Instead of tapping the wire that goes to Pin2 of the relay, I cut it off completely from the wiring harness and ran the black/yellow wire straight to Pin2. If it wasn't dark out, I would take her around the block... but since I don't have a midpipe yet I will wait till tomorrow noon.

Special thanks to a couple people that made it possible to swap my car in under a week.

Toyceli8 for giving me such a great deal on his 3s and tranny and for giving me a hand whenever he could.

eggman40 for doing a great amount of labor, staying till 2AM even though he had work at 8AM that same day.

urbandork for always answering his phone to give me tech support over the phone.

Dr.Tweak for walking me through the wiring to bypass the start relay.

and lastly.... a huge thanks to the 6gc community, for having enough information on the swap to encourage me to tackle such a project....

Hope I didn't sound too cheesy. I'm just so damn excited! Thanks again all!

Edit: grammar

This post has been edited by Chanh55: Mar 18, 2006 - 12:06 AM