It's been asked a hundred times, and the answer is always "driver sude kick panel". Well, mine's not there. The only relay I can find there is the door lock relay. I can't see anything behind that relay, and I can't find anything up under the dash, although so far I only took a quick look. Where can that starter relay be? Every once in a while my car won't crank, so I need to ground the relay, but I can't find it!

 

You sure its not behind the gooey tar sheet behind the kick panel? Is this for a gta or your camaro

 

Check above the fuse box getting near the fire wall its gonna have alot of electrical tape around it thats the only other place ive seen them

 

My GTA doesn't have that tar sheet over that hole, because the door lock relay is mounted right in that hole.

Thanks. I haven't pulled the fuse box down to see what's above it. I'll give that a try.

 

You dont really have to bring the fuse box down but it makes it easier. it is that area tho

 

Perfect. Thanks!

 

Hope its there

 

Resurrecting this old thread since I'm having the exact same issue, same car, and had the same idea to ground the relay, and am also unable to find the relay. Jim85IROC, were you able to find the starter enable relay in your 88 GTA?

 

I have an 88' GTA and it was not located behind the rubber/tar paper but higher up and the relay was actually mounted to the body or something else, just remove the driver side hush panel and look for the thick green, thick yellow, small yellow and black wire IIRC and follow it to the relay. There is a picture of those wires further up in the thread. It is tight in there but I disconnected the plug from the relay(I left the relay there), made a jumper with some thick gauge wire with a spade on each end and placed the ends where the large green and yellow wires go into the plug then used a little electrical tape to make sure it wont move.

 

Thanks very much Reddragon88gta. That's very helpful to know where the heck the relay is actually located in my 88. I plan on doing exactly what you did-a jumper cable between the ignition and VATS wires.

 

It has worked out well, I also had VATS deleted in the PROM.

 

VATS was on your 88? I was thinking the VATS wasn't on these cars until 89?
Looking on Austinthirdgen.org in their wiring diagrams, the starter enable relay isn't shown on the 88 drawing but does show up on the 89 drawing. I'm wondering if this was a mid model year addiction

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Oh yeah, it has the window stickers that notify it had anti theft, the chip key etc. I believe the later bulld 88’ GTAs received VATS.