Cain Marko

hey all, i finally got my car running again after a fire, got the interior harness and engine harness tucked, i chipped the ecu myself, ran new battery wires and whatnot, but i notice the car is running a little rough and the check engine light is on, so i jump the little plug and turn the key to the on position and the light just stays on solid and doesnt blink, i am just wondering if this is due to me having a jdm cluster in my car, any input is appreciated

asianrob

it should still work. my bro's hatch has a JDM cluster with a K swap and the check engine light still blinks and works if there is a code popping up.

it might have to be something with your wiring maybe? did you have to cut and splice wires?

mooze

sounds like u have a prob with your your chip. could be bad map or bad job with chipping

Cain Marko

oh goodness I hope not lol, i spent a long time doing that chip job and i made sure to be as careful as possible, i have some experience with board soldering and i mean i didnt melt the board or anything of that nature

as for the wiring i had NHswaps13203 did it, he is very good at what he does, the car starts and idles normal, at first i had to change the map sensor plug, which nick explained i might have to do, only when i hit the throttle does it sputter which i believe is the O2

mooze

That sounds like a chip problem. Might not b in the soldering could be the map that your attempting to use

sohc eg

Solid cel is an ecu problem, I'm having the same issue with my socketed ecu right now.

dpetro1

agreed. solid cel = problem with the ecu. try swapping to a known good ecu or reloading your map as suggested above

Cain Marko

ill try swapping it out with the other chip i have, i got the kit from xenocron so ill call them if the problem persists, for some reason when my engine harness was made there was no oil pressure switch for vtec on it, so that will also be looked at, but i dont know if thats what could also be causing the cel

dpetro1

no vtec switch would cause a CEL but it shouldnt be solid. are you sure you are jumping the connector correctly?

Cain Marko

pretty sure, i got a paperclip in the little blue plug on the passenger side of the car, im gonna try putting the old chip in the car and see what happens right now, worst case scenario i gotta get a new ecu, oh well

mooze

http://wikitest.pgmfi.org/twiki/bin/...roubleshooting
this is great guide for u

Cain Marko

thank you, good info there, i spoke with my dad who is a mechanic and he wants to get a voltmeter and test every connection on the ecu to make sure nothing is effed up

mooze

tell u what u could do. take out your eeprom and start the car. if it doesnt run worse then u know u have a connection problem somewhere or just bad ecu. if it does then u must just have a bad map

Cain Marko

yeah ill try that tomorrow, i plugged a different ecu in and was actually able to flash codes, started up fine, it either flashed a 7 or a 16, 7 is TPS sensor, which is plugged in and 16 is injectors, this thing is gonna be the end of me

r3devi7

Not meaning to thread jack, BUT; To the people that have a JDM cluster in the USDM car, how do you get the OEM dimmer switch to operate it? The US has the yellow and the white clips, with 5 pins each. And the JDM has an opening for a single green clip with four pins. I checked the sticky, but I cant find what I am looking for.