96 gt harness connector identification help.

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Whats up fellas, i just acquired a 96 gt previously auto and now manual and it has a plug with a chip on the passenger side of the engine bay. It is located exactly next to the maf and air temp harness. It look exactly like the timing chip located on the earliers 94-95 5.0's. This car is an obd 2 thus i dont see the purpose of this chip and what does it even do? Thanks for the help guys
 

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Whats up fellas, i just acquired a 96 gt previously auto and now manual and it has a plug with a chip on the passenger side of the engine bay. It is located exactly next to the maf and air temp harness. It look exactly like the timing chip located on the earliers 94-95 5.0's. This car is an obd 2 thus i dont see the purpose of this chip and what does it even do? Thanks for the help guys

Can you get a picture of it? If they did a trans swap it might be a speedometer calibrator.
 

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Is your iat sensor plugged in? Its downstream of the maf closer to where the vacuum lines plug into the intake tubing. I cant upload pics on my phone but its about 6 inches away on the left side of the intake tubing.
 

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Ok guys here is the plug or connecto i was talking about. Took me a little while to get the pic but here it is. It is not the air temp sensir nor the MAF sensor i just don't know. See if you can tell me what it is.
 

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That does look like like. Ill check mine to see if I have one. My 96 was built May 96, so it may not be there
 

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How in the world do you set base timing on a modular? There isnt anything that is adjustable on them.
 

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The technical term is the octane adjusting bar. Same design as a spout, remove it and the ecu will pull 3 degrees of timing. It will also trigger a dtc
 
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So i guess i dont touch it then....? Not that i want to i was just wondering
 

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