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The heartbreak of engine swaps........
I would find out first what engine you have, then search for articles
telling what ECU you should have.
Once the correct ECU is in, search for what wiring harness is correct for the
ECU and the engine, bite the bullet and put it in. Toss the old harness
into a box to scrounge parts from later on. Dx/Ex/Lx doesn't always matter
unless they had different engines.
As a general rule, most people don't buy a car that doesn't run well.....
unless it's dirt cheap. Any swapped car should come with documentation
to tell you what you have........or be dirt cheap.
Or start fixing stuff that is not the engine, until everything else works, and then
make the engine work.-Bob
I would find out first what engine you have, then search for articles
telling what ECU you should have.
Once the correct ECU is in, search for what wiring harness is correct for the
ECU and the engine, bite the bullet and put it in. Toss the old harness
into a box to scrounge parts from later on. Dx/Ex/Lx doesn't always matter
unless they had different engines.
As a general rule, most people don't buy a car that doesn't run well.....
unless it's dirt cheap. Any swapped car should come with documentation
to tell you what you have........or be dirt cheap.
Or start fixing stuff that is not the engine, until everything else works, and then
make the engine work.-Bob
Wiring is best left to a professional
you end up with a butt connected, wire nutted, electrical tapped fucking nightmare cluster fuck when people start fucking with there own shit.
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LMAO jd.
Senor Honda- I would think most people would want a good running car, so the engine would be the first thing i would start on. looks do not bother me, i would rather have either a good running car or a fast car than a car that has 4grand into body work and a stock motor.. just my thoughts!
and for your genral rule, i kind of got screwed on this car, i bought it as my first honda, regardless i already have the car so thinking about the decision i made of buying it would not help me one bit. so i might as well move forward and start getting the car up to par, running good and then finish off later on with a swap of choice. This is my first honda so i was not to sure on what to look for, most of the hacked wiring was in loom so i did not see it but i started pulling electrical tape and loom off today and found a dam rats nest.
Anyways thanks JD, I will be seeing you tuesday forsure.
Senor Honda- I would think most people would want a good running car, so the engine would be the first thing i would start on. looks do not bother me, i would rather have either a good running car or a fast car than a car that has 4grand into body work and a stock motor.. just my thoughts!
and for your genral rule, i kind of got screwed on this car, i bought it as my first honda, regardless i already have the car so thinking about the decision i made of buying it would not help me one bit. so i might as well move forward and start getting the car up to par, running good and then finish off later on with a swap of choice. This is my first honda so i was not to sure on what to look for, most of the hacked wiring was in loom so i did not see it but i started pulling electrical tape and loom off today and found a dam rats nest.
Anyways thanks JD, I will be seeing you tuesday forsure.
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Solo,
Gosh, did I ever misunderstand.
I thought that you wanted to learn as you fixed it yourself and were asking how to do that.
In every manual I ever looked in, there was a wiring diagram, as well as bunches of info
on the internet of how people solved wiring problems.
I also thought the wiring was messed up as the result of an engine swap.
Most of the time the stock engine in a stock car with a stock ECU is not messed up
and does not contain hacked wiring.
Trex, I wasn't trying to take away business from you.
I didn't realize that when a person fixed something themselves, that it was
mandatory that the owner create a:
"butt connected, wire nutted, electrical tapped fucking nightmare cluster fuck"
The most trusted professional for electrical wiring is the factory. My imagination says they have unhacked wiring harnesses at the dealer's.
Good luck gentlemen. Solo, keep us posted on what you go through
and what it takes to fix it.-Bob
Gosh, did I ever misunderstand.
I thought that you wanted to learn as you fixed it yourself and were asking how to do that.
In every manual I ever looked in, there was a wiring diagram, as well as bunches of info
on the internet of how people solved wiring problems.
I also thought the wiring was messed up as the result of an engine swap.
Most of the time the stock engine in a stock car with a stock ECU is not messed up
and does not contain hacked wiring.
Trex, I wasn't trying to take away business from you.
I didn't realize that when a person fixed something themselves, that it was
mandatory that the owner create a:
"butt connected, wire nutted, electrical tapped fucking nightmare cluster fuck"
The most trusted professional for electrical wiring is the factory. My imagination says they have unhacked wiring harnesses at the dealer's.
Good luck gentlemen. Solo, keep us posted on what you go through
and what it takes to fix it.-Bob
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Veterans and Friends on First Saturday...Some pictures....
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Port Richey Rod Run at Coast Buick GMC
https://carstoshow.com/registerevent.aspx?eventid=99114
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1730 US-19, Holiday Fl 34691 click: https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/t...acing.html CHRA sanctioned cruise-in.
Cruise-In; Free; Every Saturday 5-8PM plus 10% off the whole menu to cruisers
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Its cool senor, I have gone through and repaired my share of wiring, even gone behind some "professionals" having to fix there mistakes. It rare to see good clean swaps anymore.
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do a google search there are walk threws and how too's all over the internet, its not that hard to do the mpfi just solder and heatshrink everything unless you wanna do it again!
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hahah dealers SUCK at fixing wireing... truth is most stock cars done have wireing issues... they have so little experience with it
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We where however trained not to splice anything, especially SRS connections. If it wasnt repairable by repinning it than an entire harness had to be ordered
My swap/tucked harness have no splices, they are re routed, depinned, shortened/lengthened, re loomed, re pinned
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ah yeah well JD, you are going to be like WOW, when you see the wiring hell i have LOL.
JD, what ecu is suppose to be in this car (91 civic hatch dx), because it has a PM7 in it now!- which i know is the wrong ecu
JD, what ecu is suppose to be in this car (91 civic hatch dx), because it has a PM7 in it now!- which i know is the wrong ecu
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hey JD, where do you get your DR25 sleeving from?
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if you havent been in a small plane its worst, cause your eyes and brain say we are moving and your body says oh no we are not. eyes and brain go asshole we are moving, cant you see? body says fuck you we are not moving at all. so they fight and fight and eventualy your body says, you know what fuck you brain, see if you can stop this!! then you throw up.
if you havent been in a small plane its worst, cause your eyes and brain say we are moving and your body says oh no we are not. eyes and brain go asshole we are moving, cant you see? body says fuck you we are not moving at all. so they fight and fight and eventualy your body says, you know what fuck you brain, see if you can stop this!! then you throw up.
