DIY Harness

HardVG,

I have not, repeat I HAVE NOT tried to modify a factory harness to work. I KNOW it has been done though.

Here are my suggestions if you are inclined to give it a try.

1. Pull the motor and harness yourself.
2. Get as much of the harness as humanly possible, besides the engine harness there is a harness that connects the drive by wire throttle and the dash gauges to the engine computer. So getting the as much of the dash harness as possible is probably a good idea. Also the diagnositic port is located under the dash so you will need it to diagnose any computer issues.
3. Choose a post 2003 motor that uses a single ECM for both transmission and engine management
4. Choose a pre 2006 motor that doesn't use a SKIM key.
Basically a SKIM key embeds an RFID in the key so that a handshake occurs between the key and the computer, no handshake = no start.
5. Get a copy of the correct FACTORY SERVICE MANUAL. They are floating around the interwebs, they have copies on ebay for about $8.00
6. Print out the pages that deal with the wiring harness. Printing at home on a ink jet printer costs about 20 cents per page, so it might be cheaper to go to kinkos and print there at 5/10 cents per page.
7. If you are NOT going to run a factory transmission you can delete the transmission wires along with a number of other wires.
8. Find someone with a factory scan tool. When places like Hot-wire talk about "reprogramming" the computer what they do is use the factory scan tool to disable a number of features that you won't be using. For example if you are running a 727 or 904 transmission, they simply tell the computer that you are running a manual transmission.

This should get you pointed in the correct direction.

Good Luck,

You'll probably need it. ;)

Regards,

Joe Dokes