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Kapedogg 
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Posted: September 26, 2006 at 12:52 PM / IP Logged  
That's awesome!  Thanks man!
Kapedogg 
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Posted: September 30, 2006 at 9:36 AM / IP Logged  

I had a Viper 791xv installed by a shop in my '98 pontiac firebird trans am with a manual transmission.  Obviously they wouldn't hook up the remote start so I"m going to do it myself, but I seem to be missing a couple wiring harnesses(they must have tossed them) and want to make sure I'm hooking up the correct wires, so here are my questions. 

From the satellite, I splice into the following wires, and by splicing I mean attaching to them, not cutting them and leaving one end unhooked, right?

Orange from the satellite goes to the slightyly large orange wire that is near the ignition wires then runs towards the center of the car?

Pink from the satellite goes to the heavy brown wire in the ignition wires?

I am missing the 4 pin harness that plugs into the satellite.   Will this be a problem?

I am also missing the 5 wire harness from the brain, but have one that fits, but the wires are obviously not the right colors.  Could someone tell me which would be H3/1, H3/2 etc...?

Which wire can I run to the parking brake to provide ground to the remote start system so it will only work when the parking brake is on, and which wire on the parking brake do I use?

There is a blue or blue/white wire in the main brain harness that is indicated for the remote start, but I have no idea what to connect it to.

Thanks everybody, I will really appreciate your help!

KarTuneMan 
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Posted: September 30, 2006 at 11:34 AM / IP Logged  
I hate to say it....but the mods will probably shut this post down shortly. The 791 is NOT for manual trans, and they guys don't like the members helping figure away around a featuer, to make it work. This is NOT safe. Good luck, maybe someone will give you the answers you need before the topic gets closed.
Kapedogg 
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Posted: September 30, 2006 at 11:48 AM / IP Logged  

I didn't know I was at risk of getting it shut down.  I know a lot of guys have used this model on a manual trans.  At the time I bought it I was in Texas, so I didn't need R.S., but now that I"m in Indiana, it's way tooo cold, and I don't really want to buy a whole new alarm to work with it.  Thanks for the heads-up!

Kapedogg 
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Posted: September 30, 2006 at 3:03 PM / IP Logged  
I found the 4 pin harness for the satellite.  Just not sure what to use the blue wire for, I belive it goes to the relay for bypassing VATS???
Kapedogg 
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Posted: September 30, 2006 at 4:05 PM / IP Logged  

I wired things up, described as above, but nothing at all happens.  I assume partially because the WHITE/ blue H1/3 wire from the main harness of the brain is not hooked to anything, because I don't know what to hook it up to. 

I bypassed vats permanently with a 4.7k ohm resistor, but will wire this up later with a relay using the blue/white wire from the H3 harness in the brain.  I used a 5 pin harness from something else, so the wire colors are wrong, but I consider the wire on the right the blue/white, the wire on the left, the BLACK/ white.  I hooked up the Tach wire, and did the tach learn, and the brown brake wire to the light blue wire at the brakes.

So, now what?  I know I'm close...

Kapedogg 
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Posted: October 01, 2006 at 9:06 AM / IP Logged  

I finished hooking up a VIper 791xv on my '98 Firebird Trans Am yesterday, and tapped all the connections but one!  The pink and white wire, which is hooked up to the brown wire in the ignition hit bare metal, sparked and now the car won't start.  It did blow a 50 amp fuse under the hood, which I replaced and  a 10 amp inline fuse that was on the white wire of the alarm.  I replaced both of these, but it still won't start.  You can hear the starter click when I turn the key, but just once and it stops immediately.  Also, the power to the radio will start and shutdown right away.  Also, the first time I put the key in the door, the BCM will chime 5 times very quickly.

I can't belive I get it all hooked up and made such a stupid mistake.  I have NO IDEA what to do to try to fix this!

Chris Luongo 
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Posted: October 01, 2006 at 10:04 AM / IP Logged  
The ignition switch has two separate red, constant-power wires.
Usually, each is powered by a separate fuse. You may have somehow blown both of them, but replaced only one.
1. Test BOTH of the red wires at the steering column....do they both have power?
2. Get out your test light and test EVERY fuse in the car, both inside and out.
Just turn the ignition on, touch your test light to one side of the fuse (without removing it), then the other........when you find a fuse that's got power on one side, but not the other, it's blown.
Kapedogg 
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Posted: October 02, 2006 at 7:10 AM / IP Logged  

It all works, I just have to figure out how to trick it into thinking the clutch pedal is pressed in, and I'm done. 

DaveK 
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Posted: October 13, 2006 at 1:28 PM / IP Logged  
Make sure the battery isn't dead.
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