Just completed an M6 swap this weekend. The pedals came from a '98 LS1 car.

We extended the yellow and brown wires from the auto shifter harness over to the clutch safety switch and wired it up. I was of the understanding polarity didn't matter here but with the clutch depressed the starter won't work and with the clutch engaged it starts (in Neutral of course!). The switch is backwards!

I am guessing it is a normally open switch and it needs to be a normally closed switch.

Did the part number for that switch change from LT1 to LS1? it mounts in front of the pedal so when the clutch is engaged the button on the end of the switch is depressed and when you push the pedal in the button pops out and opens the ciruit.

Wrong pedals? Wrong switch? Near as I could tell on the Firebirds Parts CD the pedals and switch are all the same part number.

 

On mine the button is out when the clutch is engaged and when the clutch is depressed is pushes the button in to complete the circuit. I might have misunderstood your description of the button being in front of the pedal, but I think you just have it mounted incorrectly causing the reverse of what you want. My button is closer to the firewall, behind the clutch so when I push in it pushes the button and allows me to start the car.

Anthony

 

The pedals have to be wrong then, because there's no way I can mount this switch between the pedal and the firewall. The bracket for the switch is in front of the pedal.

I'll look at it tonight when I get home, maybe that bracket for the switch was swung out the wrong way or something when I bolted the pedals in.

 

I just went out and looked at my car to make sure what I posted was correct and it is. The bracket that holds the switch is behind the pedal on the left side, so the flat square on the pedal can depress it when you push the clutch in. The bracket that it connects to bolts to the firewall, where your slave cylinder is.

Anthony

 

Thanks for checking. I figured it out. I wired up the wrong switch. I didn't even see the brown safety switch before. Whatever I wired up is a white switch in front of the pedals. I put two spade connectors on the wires, hooked to the correct switch and now all works as it should.

 

I think that is the cruise control disable switch. I made the same mistake with that switch, except I was trying to use it as a two-step, lol, and it is backwards from the safety switch.