[greg-sls]

Firstimecaddi - if when you bypassed the VATS reader, you soldered the resistor chain in place under the dash, then those small wires we see in your photo are defunct. Anything you do to them won't change your circumstance. I'm betting when you pulled out the key by force, some other crucial contact point got out-of-alignment to power the SER. That's the next step...find your SER and see if any of the primary wires (sorry, don't know the color codes) are getting voltage when the tumbler is put in the start position. If your original VATS bypass went bad, you would see the theft deterrent message on the dash.