Having had clutch by-pass switches so you could start a 4X4 in gear to lug it out of sand, video is BS.

Hence car should be lunging forward as the starter is kicking over, and when the motor starts after a few inches of lugging, you get a slighter faster speed, then the car will slow down to a idle crawl instead.

But the point does drive home a touch, being that if a M6 is started in gear, it going to move; either with or without you car.
Hence this is the reason that manual trans cars do not get auto starts.

 

I knew someone that had a remote start on a manuel trans. He had it at a shop and was up on a lift. The tech hit the remote start and off it went . Caused more damage to the C4 than to the shop, finger pointing both ways.

 

I was determined to have this added to my M6 C5. I went to three shops to have it done and two of them said the owners had done it to their own C5's and one had crashed into the front wall of the garage and one into a car parked in front of it. They all refused. I couldn't understand why they just didnt put a neutral safety switch in that would only allow it to work if it was in neutral, but they hadn't.
I think if you find someone who's not an idiot it should be fine to instant as long as its dont right and made no only work if the car really is in neutral.
tighten up your ebrake as well, they are often very loose.
I'd love to hear if you have it done, good luck.

 

I worked as a valet during college and our company's rules for parking cars was backing them in the spots, and manual cars were left in 1st gear without the parking brake on (don't know why but that was the rules). A co-worker of mine ran out to get a Viper GTS and hit the button on the remote to unlock the doors. Unfortunately, the car had remote start & it took off and hit several other cars that were parked across from it causing a couple hundred thousand worth of damage.

 

That's horrible but I think it would have been fun to watch it happen.

 

I did a lot of research on this when I got my C6. Blame it on the first generation of keyless entry. The key is designed to activate the entire car when the fob is near. It is not an "intelligent" keyless system like the 2nd gen and later. In those cars, as long as the vehicle gets a signal, it can unlock doors OR start the car OR shift out of park. In the C6 Corvette, it turns on ALL those systems. Even if you trick the car into not needing the physical key-fob to be near, it will allow anyone to get into the car and drive off, including children (intentionally or unintentionally). Secondly, the sensor in the keyfob is short-range. It will only allow the vehicle to unlock if the key is physically close enough to be recognized as intent to enter the vehicle. It is not a long-range like bluetooth or wifi. The only methods for overriding this are to leave a 2nd keyfob in the car and then trick the car into recognizing it when you want it to, and not just all the time. But it still literally means leaving your keys in the car at all times.

I live in Arizona. My other vehicles use different bluetooth and wifi methods to start the car from the 3rd floor of my office building, so by the time I gather my things, walk downstairs, and clock out, the A/C has been running long enough to make the seatbelt buckles not skin-meltingly hot. Remote start is a godsend during the 4 months of the year when the sun is sitting 6" from your steering wheel and temperatures in the shade are well over 100*F (it was 96*F at 7am today, and still 115*F by 4pm). Its easy to have a manual override switch for your manual transmission, and it is easy to have remote start in manual transmissions these days. But, the 1st gen keyless that the C6 has (ahead of its time), is not going to allow you to run Remote Start the way you want.

 

It almost took out the valet that was going to get it. He had to jump & roll out of the way. It was in your neck of the woods in LV, & the cars it hit were all very high end cars