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Right now we just have the gto harness in the z but it's unmolested so far. We just wanted to get the engine running before moving on. Didn't think about anti theft stuff stopping us from starting it. Well that's definitely a relief because we were at our wits end thinking maybe our pcm went bad during the swap or something. Thanks!

I have the little locked car icon on the dash of the car with the lock and I tried leaving the ignition switch on for 11 minutes but I couldn't get rid of it. How do you guys disable the vats in the bcm? Do you buy tuning software or send the ecu off?

Checked and rechecked the grounds and they seem to be good. Jumped the starter over manually and it cranks over fine so that's not burnt out. Everything in the starting circuit seems to be working and hooked up correctly which leads me to think that it may be some anti theft nonsense. Right now we have everything in the z and are just trying to get the engine running with the stock ecu and not messing with vats at the moment.

Hey guys, I purchase a wrecked gto for my transplant that ran and drove for my swap. Drove the car prior to pulling the engine and the key fob has been broken this whole time. Now we can't even get the engine to crank over. We have power where it needs to be, but for some reason we aren't getting power to the starter. From what I've been reading, VATS could be an issue but I haven't found any way to figure out if thats the problem or not. Does Vats disable cranking or will it just disable the fuel injectors? Kinda at my wits end at this point.