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I'm doing a K-swap to my 1992 civic hatch from an 03 Accord. I have everything from the Accord, including ECU, harness, 5 speed trans etc.. At this point the engine and trans are in and it looks good with those Hasport mounts. Now the next hurdle is finding a budget friendly way to wire it. From my understanding the ECU that I have won't work, and I've seen different forums say different things, including:
1. Buy 02-04 RSX harness and ECU, along with Hondata (Seems too expensive)
2. Buy 05 Element ECU and 04 harness, reflash with K-tuner (Again decently expensive, harder parts to find)
These options seem ok, but before I commit to anything and spend some cash I want to make sure I'm evaluating all of my options. Obviously if possible I'd like to use the parts I have to keep the cost down but it is what it is.
I'm just looking for advice from someone more experienced than me, which I guess isn't saying much, but anything helps, bonus points if you have done this swap yourself.
Why not use the Accord stuff you have? Immobilizer is not that hard to make functional. That is the early Type 2 that uses the same key way as the EG. Would just need a Type 2 key blank cut to your cylinder.
Probably no tuner options for that ECU so all the emissions stuff would need to be functional to not set a check engine light.
02-04 RSX "harness"(ktuned, Rywire or OEM) with 02-04 K-pro v4, the last thing you want to cheap out on is the EMS. my turbo k24/20 runs off the ktuned tucked harness and an 02-04 kpro V4 ECU. If you're on a budget cut costs else where, you'll run into issues trying to make something else work. I can't tell you how many times Kpro has helped me plus it has blu tooth so you can see what's happening on your phone while you drive. a stock RSX-S ECU can be used with an immobilizer bypass that ktuned sells but you'll have no idea what going on in terms of sensor values etc.
I'm doing a K-swap to my 1992 civic hatch from an 03 Accord. I have everything from the Accord, including ECU, harness, 5 speed trans etc.. At this point the engine and trans are in and it looks good with those Hasport mounts. Now the next hurdle is finding a budget friendly way to wire it. From my understanding the ECU that I have won't work, and I've seen different forums say different things, including:
1. Buy 02-04 RSX harness and ECU, along with Hondata (Seems too expensive)
2. Buy 05 Element ECU and 04 harness, reflash with K-tuner (Again decently expensive, harder parts to find)
These options seem ok, but before I commit to anything and spend some cash I want to make sure I'm evaluating all of my options. Obviously if possible I'd like to use the parts I have to keep the cost down but it is what it is.
I'm just looking for advice from someone more experienced than me, which I guess isn't saying much, but anything helps, bonus points if you have done this swap yourself.
Thanks for reading. Pls help
You really can't go "cheap" on ecu and harness. What I did was buy a K-tuner Element ECU (700) and and Element harness (150) the ecu was definitely the most expensive thing in my swap. You can also get a k-tuned immobilizer chip to remove the immobilizer but, you still couldn't use the raa ecu. you would have to get an rsx ecu.
07-05-2020, 11:44 AM
K24A4 1992 Swap
. Now the next hurdle is finding a budget friendly way to wire it. From my understanding the ECU that I have won't work, and I've seen different forums say different things, including:
