I ran into the exact same problem when I was converting my 88 coupe. There is an "undocumented feature" in the wiring harness that unless you know how to work around it you can't get it to work. Anyway Strick helped me and thanks to MinnGreenGT sharing his secret of the search engine I found the thread...(worth the price of wheatstock admission alone)
https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/051376.html
Thanks again to Strick for this: What I did was on the coupe wiring harness is I removed a white jumper wiring going from G7-H8.
Then on the GT harness I traced from my break lights and found a blue wire was pined in at J9. I removed it from there and used the connector from the white wire and pined it in at G7. That fixed all my problem. Lights work great now. Hope this helps.
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1988 GT (Firebird Interior),1988 Coupe (Daily Driver), 1985 SE (Project Car), 1985 Coupe (parts car), Firebird Interior Installation Website
[This message has been edited by jscott1 (edited 07-21-2004).]