So I just picked up an 1987 Camaro IROC Z28. Everything seems to be original except when I was fixing a few things I found a small push button switch wired in next to the fuse box. It appears to be a momentary press sort of button. It appears one side is grounded and the other is tapped into a solid white wire under the dash. I've tried pushing the button with the car on and it with it off and nothing happens that I can tell (no ejection seat unfortunately).

Any one have any thoughts on what it is?

 

I had one like this under my dash in the same spot. Mine was disconnected, I had assumed it was part of a kill switch...

Couldn't really think of another reason for it.

 

DON'T PUSH IT!!!! The antimatter might come land on your driveway and annihilate all the matter, and the entire known universe might implode into a tiny mass smaller than a quark, but we'll never even know it because we'll be that small too. You don't want to be THAT GUY, do you???

Seriously...

Looks like typical PO bullplop. Trace the wires, see what it goes to, maybe you can get inside the idiot's head just long enough to figure out what s/he had in mind (I use the word VERY loosely). Then very carefully remove EVERY TRACE of it and all its wires, directly to the trash can; and restore to its former glory whatever factory wiring s/he hacked up, with solder and heatshrink.

 

LOL! I was about to say it fires the ejection seat, but you outdid me!

 

For charging up the turboencabulator.

 

Usually it's an alarm valet/programming/override switch.

 

It's an aftermarket alarm system control button. It's for programming remotes and such.

GD