99 ford contour, avantguard 4

That's just it, the diagnostic in/out is all good.  No hood, doors, trunk, or anything else open.  I double checked the parking brake connections, and they are correct. 

When I start the car with a key, the car starts.  Then, I press the * button on the remote to try and activate the manual transmission mode.  The parking lights flash twice, and I hear the clutch bypass relay engage.  Then, the parking lights flash again.  It's like they do a double pulse, pause, single pulse.  I try to start the car from cliffnet, and it does the same thing with the parking lights.  When I turn the ignition off, the car dies.

According to the install manual, three parking light pulses (which I'm assuming that's what it is doing), says to check the ignition wiring.  I've looked and looked and cannot figure this out.  The car is a 1999 Ford Contour SVT, manual transmission. 

I have it hooked as follows:

WHT/BRN  (from AG4 )  -- Ignition wire(key side)  GREEN on car

GRN/BLUE (from AG4 and IntellistartIV)   -- Ignition wire (coil side)  GREEN on car

Since I can hear the clutch bypass relay click when I try to activate manual transmission mode, I know that it is probably not that.  From Cliffnet programming, I can turn on/off the ignition, so I am assuming that this is good.  Is there something that I need to do that I don't know about? 

I am in the process of putting on an Avantguard 4 on my 99 ford contour manual transmission.  I have made all of the proper connection for remote starting, including a clutch bypass relay, and a PATS bypass module.  When trying to remotely start the car, the lights flash once, and nothing else happens.

So, I grounded the BLACK/ green wire and made the alarm into automatic transmission mode.  Now, the car starts and immediately dies. Is this a common problem?  Is there a fix?

Thanks.

Thanks for the reply.  I have tried this sequence to go through:

Start the car.

Put in neutral, engage handbrake.

Press (*) on Companion Remote (Button 11 on master)

Clutch bypass relay engages.

Parking lights flash once. If I turn the ignition off, the car dies.

Hmm....Tach signal huh?  On a 1999 Ford Contour, I am tapped into the PCM at pin #48.  This shows to be the tach signal on every wiring diagram I've seen.  However, the Avantguard 4 install manual shows I need a negative input.  I'm wondering if the signal that I'm tapped into is a positive one.  Any more suggestions of where to tap into a tach signal?

Read the section again on manual transmission enabling, you are doing it WRONG, tach, go to injectors, there will be 4 wires the same colour and 4 different, connect tach feed to one of the different wires. Programme it manually, the Wiz software is glitched to buggary. the easiest way to pypass your Ford Mondeo sorry I mean Mercury Contour is to remove the chips from BOTH keys and acrylic glue one chip to top of antenna ring around ignition switch, wait 5mins and then test with (chip removed) ignition key, that way you wont need a by-pass