As youre turning the engime over does the tach hold 250rpm? If the tach sits at zero you have no crank pulse. I just swapped a mk4 into a mk3 and i started the car without maf, iat sensor, coolant temp sensor so you shoulnt have a issue unless youre misding power/ ground at some place
I dont think I remember tach moving at all. As the car is not as easily accessible, I cannot check it at the moment. If there is no pulse, then that would be the G28?
Also what I remember is that one of the communication errors was with TCU, which leads me to believe that the ecu comes from an automatic. That could probably mess things up for me too, couldnt it? I will try to reflash to a manual file on the ecu once i get to the car!
Also every time I power up my ecu, the throttle body starts whining for a minute or two, could it be calibrating? I have connected some stuff straight to battery through a switch for the sake of just starting the car.