A buddy just picked up a stolen recovery 2008 Corvette. The car was stripped including the drive-line. The engine was replaced with another LS engine guessing in the 2007 range. The car has the key-less FOB system.

When he first got it it would start and run for a few seconds then shut down, recently the car does not respond when the start button is pushed, nothing, no dash lights, start button glows orange then goes back to green after a period (battery is full).

Would like to begin with scanning the car for codes, VIN etc but can't since the car won't enter the on/run mode can't read any data.

My goal would be to just get the car running so it can moved around his shop on it's own power if possible...but this system is new to me.

Some thoughts relate to VATS, On-Star may have shut the car down, could I get the 12612384 pcm flashed with a basic run condition to begin with or does it need to link up with the BCM for other functions?

Any suggestions....

Thanks