How To install a turbo timer WITH your alarm, mystery solved, and its really easy! Options

[lagos]

i just installed my turbo timer, and made it work along with my alarm. its so easy, that i cant belive some of us every thought of this as a problem.

first of all, there IS a turbo timer harness that works with our car! any harness labled to work with a 93-96 supra will work with our car. i used a blitz turbo timer, and this is the harness i got. if you want to doubble check if your are buying the right one (if going with another brand TT) just google something like "apexi turbo timer harness ST205 " and use the part number they give you for that harness. this is the one i used:

TY-04 = BLITZ TURBO TIMER HARNESS - 51153


now for the "hard" part of making it work with your alarm. normally your alarm box connects to 2 wires from your igniton. located the point where it was spliced into your ignition wires. there should be a black Ignition wire its spliced into. disconnect the alarm wire that runs to it. this will make the alarm think that the car is NOT running, and allow you to arm the alarm system at any time. THATS IT. now you can take you keys out, get out of the car, arm the alarm, and walk away, while the turbo timer counts down on its own and keeps the engine running.

This post has been edited by lagos: Jul 20, 2006 - 3:21 PM

[6strngs]

sorry to bring an old thread back to life, but I'm having an issue with this right now and want to get it sorted out. here's my issue, the alarm I have automatically arms itself after 15 seconds or so after you shut the car off, but, it only does after you've opened the door AFTER shutting the car off. so, if I get out of the car while it's still running on the timer, and walk away, the alarm never arms unless I wait until after the car has shut off and arm it manually (doesn't that defeat the purpose of the turbo timer?) or I open the door after the car has shut off. again, I still have to sit and wait for it. the car also unlocks the doors after the car shuts off, so even if I get out, lock the door, and walk away, the car unlocks itself.

so, the soultion seemingly would be to cut the wire spliced into the black wire from the ignition as you stated, but since mine automatically arms itself, and it can't tell that the car is running, wouldn't it arm itself while I'm driving, thus setting itself off and making everybody think I'm honking at them. lol.

EDIT: thinking about this a little bit more, would cutting the wire just disable the auto-arming feature altogether and I'd have to arm it manually if I want it to arm at all?

This post has been edited by 6strngs: Jan 14, 2008 - 9:15 PM