zdelure

I have a ZC DOHC 1.6L and i needed a new dizzy but the wires are different colors coming from the car side then they are on the dizzy. we had to take the pins out of the new distributor to hook it up an we took them out before relizing we didnt know where they went. the colors from the car side harness are white, white, white with blue tracer, peach, peach with blue tracer. on the dizzy side they are white, peach, blue with yellow tracer, blue, yellow with green. which wires go to what???

DJYoshaBYD

search for a wire diagram of both your car, and the car that the ZC came out of.. it will tell you right there :D

zdelure

i dont know what kinda car it came out of. the engine is a 88-89. i bought it off someone who was going to put it in his crx but he wrote it off before he could

jlicrx

kind of hard to tell you what to do since i don't know what your connectors look like or whether the wires in the engine harness are in the original locations or have been relocated - what you call peach is actually called orange by Honda - i take it that this is an aftermaket distributor and not an actual Honda distributor since all of the wire colors are different - assuming that the wire colors on the distributor that do match the ones in the harness are correct, here is what you need to do:

harness---------------------------distributor

thin white*-----------------------white
orange----------------------------orange
thick white**--------------------yellow/green
white/blue***-------------------blue
orange/blue***-----------------blue/yellow

* - since you have 2 whites, the thin white wire can be determined by opening up the harness back a little ways from the connector - the thin white has red hash marks on it that are spaced a short distance apart - you can also check for continuity of the wire from ECU pin B12 to the connector

** thick white - if you determine which is the thin white, then the other white is obviously the thick or you can check for continuity from ECU pin B15 or B17 to the connector

*** - only a guess as to which goes where - if you get a CEL with a code 8 with these wires connected as noted, just switch the 2 wires

zdelure

awsome thank you, ill try that when i get home and let you know the outcome