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Turbo 5 speed swap - wiring questions

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Old 01-02-2015, 05:57 PM
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For those of you who have done the swap, I need a little help. I know there's a ridiculous number of threads on it, but I'm getting lost in a sea of too much information to sort through. If it matters, the car is a '94, the trans is from a 95.

From what I can tell, I need to bypass the PNP switch so the car thinks it's in park, and will then start. I scrapped my old trans already, with the switch still on it. Even if I did have the switch though, I wouldn't want the thing hanging off the wiring loom in my engine bay, wrapped in a big ball of duct tape and zip ties. I'd like to cut off that whole big connector that went to the A/T and wrap up the wiring all nice and clean.

Can I do that? There's nothing in there I need except two wires I'd hook together to bypass the switch, right? Can somebody tell me which two wires I'm looking for? I don't have the wiring diagrams, unfortunately.

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You need four(4) wires in that harness. The rest can go, be cut back or taped up. Some have taken the time to actually pull them out of the harness, I just cut them back at different lengths taping them as I went.

2 to allow it to start.
2 for the backup lights.

Skinnys are the backups. Fatties are not the start wires, this picture was taken when I was trying to figure out the reverse.

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Project hit the back burner for a while, but thanks for the info. I like to yank out anything I don't need.
 
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