Can someone tell me just how hack my swap is?

[godesshunter]

I'm looking for someone who is very proficient in swaps to check out my car. I can tell by the way it looks and the way it runs that it is quite a hack job swap. I just got the car and know almost nothing about it.

The car is a 1993 Del Sol with a D16Y8 swapped in.

Im not a total idiot when it comes to hondas, Ive owned a few and have done 2 swaps myself. But in the case of both swaps I did, I had the entire donor car for both and swapped everything over (harness and ecu) as to alleviate any confusion. When it comes to mating to different generation OBD systems, I'm lost.

I'm looking to drive the car to someone and have them just look it over and tell me what was done right and wrong, and how to make it all right.
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Here's what I know so far. The car is running on a P06 ecu.

>VTEC does not work but it looks like someone ran a wire somewhere to try to make it work.

>The check engine light is on, but everything I read about how to pull the code doesn't make sense for my car. Trying to find the plug under the passenger side dash but the description of the plug is different than mine. There are a couple under there.

>The idle has a mind of its own. Sometimes its good. sometimes its high, sometimes it surges.

>There are some things plugged in. There some things that look clearly cut and spliced together, and there are some plugs that are hanging and not plugged into anything.
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Looking under the hood, It just looks like there were a bunch of corners cut to make it run and zero fucks were given beyond that. I want to make it so I'm not embarrassed to open the hood.

Can someone help?

[jealous1shateric]

Hack job

[jdmjunkie9753]

PM me your number, I can help you out.

[94-civic-coupe]

Depending on how bad it is it might be better to start fresh with a new harness. I have bought a few cars with hacked to shit wireing and it always sucks to fix the right way and make them look nice

[jdmjunkie9753]

Yeah, definitely best to go with a new harness. I have a mint uncut one and can wire VTEC the right way for you.

[SeanJDMJohn]

No offense but post a pic of the engine bay we can better lead u in the right way ASAP

[godesshunter]

No offense but post a pic of the engine bay we can better lead u in the right way ASAP

Ill snap some pics tomorrow.

[Mr Layy]

Yeah snap a couple pics... And for the one to check ur cels, it should be a 2 pinned plug under the glove compartment.

[godesshunter]

Here are 2 pics I already had on my phone from last week or so trying to figure stuff out.

This is a pic of the ECU as it is with 2 wires cut.



These are where I believe the wires should be connected too. Red to red and green to green. I didn't try connection them because I don't know what they are supposed to do and the car runs and drives now so I didn't want to mess something up just shooting in the dark.




These are the 2 plugs under the glove box. I didn't want to risk jumping the wrong one and cause a problem so I didn't try either for codes.




Ill get some more pics tomorrow of other mishaps.

Thanks guys!

[2point1]

Looks like VTec wires where cut,kinda hard to tell from the pic. The 2 wire plug with the brown and green wires is the one to jump to check for codes.

[k-series]

To check the ecu codes its the plug to the left....92-95 plug has the brown wire with the white stripe and green wire with white strope...also the plug is gray on that year. If its was 96-00 then the plug will be blue.

With the key OFF, insert either a 2-pin connector clip or a loop of wire (e.g., a paper clip) into both holes on the connector.5) Back in the driver's seat, turn the key to the ON(II) position. The CEL will come on like normal but will then begin to flash.***
By counting the number of flashes, you can decipher the CEL code**A LONG flash (1 second)***is 10A SHORT flash (0.5 second)***is 1For example, two long flashes followed quickly by two short flashes would be code 22. If there is more than one code, each code will be separated by a 2.5 second gap.***

[94-civic-coupe]

everyone already posted good info. i would also look up the ecu pinout so u know exactly what all the wires were suppose to be from the factory. then u can see if anything has been altered in the engine bay. if all is well u can solder, and shrinkwrap the wires back together and hopefully fix your problem.

[godesshunter]

Thanks everyone so far for the help. Today I got some pics and read my codes. First the codes. I got two codes.

Code #7: Throttle position sensor. Makes sense-see pictures

Code #19: Automatic transmission lockup control valve- Scratching my head on that one.

I ran the vin on the transmission and it came back to a 99 civic ex coupe 5speed. I assume the engine is from the same car. Does this mean the the ECU I'm running is from an automatic car? My car's vin decodes as a manual car from the factory.

[godesshunter]

The engine as a whole.



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The is a plug that comes out of the harness under the throttle body but doesn't seem to have a home.



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This white plug was not plugged in when I got the car and noticed it when doing an oil change. I plugged it back in but didn't notice anything different. Not sure what it does. Its located on the back side of the intake manifold right above the oil filter.



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This is a plug that has no home. And most interesting at that. As far as I can see, It appears to be the crank sensor. I didnt really see a spot in the harness for it to plug into. Seems off that the engine is running without the crank sensor plugged in?



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The is what appears to be tape holding the plug onto the TPS. I haven't taken it off yet to see why it needs to be taped. That little mess is why I assume I have a TPS code #7



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The grey plug is the Vtec sol. It has that taped loose wire going into the firewall somewhere. Haven't tried to chase it down on the other side yet.

The green plug coolant sensor has one loose wire going to a random body ground and the other loose wire randomly into the firewall next to the Vtec wire.



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This is the taped up mess of distributor wiring. This is on the harness side. The plugs are still intact to the distributor. As you can see there is 2 wired cut and exposed within the tape mess. 1 black one and a blue one I think it was. Also the green w/ yellow stripe wire that appears to have been extracted from a plug but has no home and is just randomly floating around that area.



Another one of the distributor plugs.



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And lastly a pic of my timing belt. Needs to be done ASAP. Didnt know it was this bad until I was taking the pic of the crank sensor wire. and noticed it right in my face.

[2point1]

This ^^ plug is an extra map sensor plug. Reason why is your chassis is a 92 and they had the map sensor mounted to the firewall and 94-95 have it mounted on top of throttle body.



This^^ white plug is for your iat sensor and is plugged in right.



This plug is either for crank sensor or auto tranny sensor.





This ^^ is a mess of VTec wiring. The green/yellow wire without a plug goes to the VTec solenoid. There is all so a mess of distributor wiring under the tape.


Look on the side of the ecu case,if it says po6-a51 then it's an auto ecu.