Ok, I decided to post this here since most of the other swap guys will see it...

I haven't finished the swap yet, still waiting on the tranny from T56 Rebuilds, but I already finished the pedals and I'm doing some wiring now. Next up is the hatch release.

I already know about splicing the orange/black and black/white wires together, but I'm in CA and I know from a previous post that if you do that, the car thinks it is in Park all the time and the EGR never turns on. So I am trying to wire this thing up like stock (I have the factory manuals), but now I have a problem.

I wired the tan wire on the parking brake to the tan wire from the hatch release relay, just like it shows for the M6 car in my manual. Except now, the car thinks the parking brake is on all the time now. Did I miss something? I don't want to just cut the tan wire after my splice on the relay, because the book shows it goes to something else on an auto car. Anyone else wire up the hatch relay right?

UPDATE: Well I figured part of it out, the tan wire off the relay was still going to other stuff, so it was grounding out. So I cut it after the splice, and now the hatch release only works when the parking brake is on. Except now the indicator doesn't come on, so now I have to figure that circuit out...

 

If you re-flash the pcm to a manual trans. file, the pcm won't know park or not... so the egr may still work.