Best Cheap "kill" switch setup?! Help me out ---

[alwayscode390]

I want to do my own personal "alarm" system. Just a cheap ground out KILL SWITCH sounds like it would do the trick, and I can hide the switch under the dash somewhere. Do I wire it to the battery somehow or the starter or what? Help me figure this out, so I can get my truck protected ASAP. I have an ULTIMATE stock chip on the way , someone mentioned a SECURITY mode. Can you access it through the cab or do I have to go under the hood to set it like that?! THANKS ---

 

[sytyguy]

Re: Best Cheap "kill" switch setup?! Help me out ---

If you have an Ultimate on the way, then (as far as complete vehicle theft is concerned) your security needs are taken care of. The Ultimate security setting lowers the fuel cut to sub idle levels (usu around 300-400 rpm), so that even with the key, the vehicle will not crank until moved from that setting.

If you want more security, you can do as you initially asked and wire a toggle switch inline with the fuel pump fuse or ecm fuse. Running a full size master battery disconnect inside the cab would require a lot of heavy gauge cabling to be routed inside and a big switch to be installed somewhere (they're usu heavier and more bulky than you'd want hanging from a piece of interior plastic.) You can still install the disconnect switch (somewhere externally accessible) as that will give you the ability to reduce battery drain when sitting for a long time and makes you more NHRA compliant.

HTHs

Hood

 

[QUICK STORM]

Re: Best Cheap "kill" switch setup?! Help me out ---

i have a nhra approved kill switch on my truck

 

[Jimmy]

Re: Best Cheap "kill" switch setup?! Help me out ---

Pull the ECM-B fuse. Doesn't cost a thing and the truck won't start without it.

 

[Black Knight]

Re: Best Cheap "kill" switch setup?! Help me out ---

Pull the ECM-B fuse. Doesn't cost a thing and the truck won't start without it.

yeh but thats one more thing for me to loose, shave your door handles!!!!!! :rotf:

 

[qbnkiller]

Re: Best Cheap "kill" switch setup?! Help me out ---

wire the ignition trigger wire through your cigarette lighter. Then, youneed to push in the lighter while you crank, or no start. Good 'ol Detroit starter kilL!

 

[QUICK STORM]

Re: Best Cheap "kill" switch setup?! Help me out ---

wire the ignition trigger wire through your cigarette lighter. Then, youneed to push in the lighter while you crank, or no start. Good 'ol Detroit starter kilL!

haha, brings new meaning to pushbutton start

 

[alwayscode390]

Re: Best Cheap "kill" switch setup?! Help me out ---

I like the lighter idea....I tried to put a kill on the starter with my new alarm, but I guess the alarm came with a built in kill switch and it wouldnt let me have an extra "cheapie" one. Oh well, time to trust the alarm?! ---

 

[Flyin Ryan]

Re: Best Cheap "kill" switch setup?! Help me out ---

Pull the ECM-B fuse. Doesn't cost a thing and the truck won't start without it.

This is the cheapest and most effective way I think.. it's what I do when I park my sy anywhere other then my driveway

 

[syclonekid43]

Re: Best Cheap "kill" switch setup?! Help me out ---

i was usinf a small toggle switch before i got my alarm. i pulled the ecm fuse ran the fuse on the switch. crimped on 2 spade connectors and hide the switch. before i did that. i would take the coil wire where ever i went when i parked my truck