Well more road blocks.
I sold that 3.8 with the old harness since I thought I could just plug the turbo harness into the century fuse block, I cant. Thought I can just swap fuse boxes, but its not the fuse box that I need its the whole darn dash harness since the engine harness plugs into that. Now I have to either find another 80 3.8 engine harness so it plugs into my factory dash harness block or bug the guy who bought the engine and see if he will cut that plug off and mail it to me. Blah. I have to cut the two ends off the old harness and the new harness and butt connect the wires.
The headlight, wipers and horn harness is totally different than the turbo buick harness anyways so if I do swap the fuse box plug I'd have to swap the light harness too so that is totally out.
Also, tried finding the port on the dash cluster by the speedometer to put the fiber optic sensor for the vehicle speed sensor and didnt see one. I am used to all 81+ cutlass and GP harnesses having a little hole behind the speedometer to look at the reluctor wheel and that box in the picture below translates it to the PCM. I have that box out of my 2+2 but no place for it to mount in the cluster. I also need to tear the dash apart in my 2+2 again to find those missing plugs in the picture below I stole off ebay. I must have taken them off when i removed the VSS buffer and didn't clip them.
Other bad news, I bought a DIN 1.5 radio out of an S10 to replace the garbage shaft radio in the car, I assumed it had the 3 plug older GM conenctors, the orange, grey and black plugs that are separate, but it has the newer 1990's style "spade" connectors. Salvage yard must have grabbed the wrong one or listed it wrong. I either need to buy the right plug side radio or buy the later 90's style single plug for the DIN 1.5 delco radio.
Other problems, i tried setting the cam sensor using the "i'm cheap not buying the cap that tells you when in time and use a multi meeter instead" method, and either i'm a moron and am doing it wrong or the cam sensor is shot.
I dont have voltage in the harness yet (go back to the fuse box plug section in this post to understand why) so I thought i would hook the leads up to the 12V battery. I have voltage and tried setting it but the signal wire won't output the signal it's supposed to. It should put either output 0-2V or 12V depeding on rotation by probing between the middle signal wire and ground. I get like 0 to .2 volts when I probe between those wires. Only way I get the actual voltage on/off is to probe between the 12V hot in and the signal wire.
I did manage to route the engine harness in the cabin for the PCM which required loosening the fender bolts to squeeze the grommet in between the air box and fender and built a bracket to hold the PS resovior.
Built the harness for inside the car, I stole the PCM to OBD plug harness from the 2+2 last summer so I just had to repin and recrimp.
A PCM kick panel is on the way and all i need to do is put ignition voltage to the wire going to the PCM and a ground to the OBD plug and thats done. I guess I do need to find the plugs in the 2+2 for the VSS buffer still.