Another Question about the Northstar

[Paul Tholey]

My vote is NO, cause the engine works as part of the traction control,
cutting up to 5 cyl out.  If the ABS light turns on and you press the
throttle, the engine will begin to cut cyl. out to pick up for the ABS fault.

HTH

Paul Tholey 

At 12:49 PM 4/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>It's an engine swap in a Fiero.
>He's installed the brake/traction control module as well as engine
>controls.  Should he disconnect them?
>Shannen
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>xxalexx at ix.netcom.com wrote:
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>> Just open hood and pull out the relay.
>> This common problem on chassis dynos, the car will not even go.
>> I have not tested any NorthStars so not sure of exact location,
>> Usally a large rectangular black box similiar to ABS relay.
>> which you can also pull if you do not want ABS.
>> These are rather fail safe systems so you should not have any
>> crash problems. You could hook up a dash mounted switch,
>> and label it burn out, most Euro cars have this.  Note your idiot
>> lights will go on.   ABS at the 1st occurence of 55, antislip
>> anything over 5 mph when slipping.
>> For data line I have seen wheel messages on the obd2 bus, but for
>> control probably uses higher speed CAN Class C protocol.
>> I was working on a Class B intercept box for alt fuel conversions
>> in 96 but have not looked into traction and brake systems yet.
>> Alex
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