What is this black box in rear trunk near ECU?

[thstone]

Wow, what the heck is going on in your trunk?

You might want to ask Homeland Security to take a quick look ... Just be careful and don't cut the green wire..... Or was it the red?

[Porsche-Eh]

Many thanks for all the replies. Black box was a 6v battery that is now out of the car. I'm guessing part of an old alarm system or IED. Didn't blow up yet anyways. It had a yellow and black wire that run towards the front of the car and looks a lot like the cruise control clutch switch wires which is just bizarre. I'll get some more work done on it this weekend and let you know what I find. As for the engine (swap, etc) that's a good point and I haven't checked to be honest! I'm going to do the 1 and 7 relay bypasses to see if cranks. Also bypassing the clutch switch.

Thanks for the post about the trunk light, I'll double check that!

I also have the service manual so I'll eventually figure it out and then do a data dump of all I've leaned about whole ignition system (DME, immobilizer, clutch switch, rfid pill, programming, etc.).

[rexcramer]

Be careful of the flux capacitor.

[Porsche-Eh]

Originally Posted by rexcramer

Be careful of the flux capacitor.

Couple photos of the project with and w/o hardtop. Everything works except remote buttons and it won't crank. Smells like rfid pill or previously wet immobilizer but only more diagnosis will tell. Going to get a durametric or top of the line obd reader. Thanks for the help.