MoreCowbell

Tied into the harness right at the point where it goes in the ecu. I can move it back and forth and it seems to do nothing with driving.

98ekb16

Thats not stock, you gotta trace where the wires go to find out what it is.

MoreCowbell

Tech is lacking hard on this site it seems

EJ1_CRIS_909

Failed attempt of ecu kill switch? lol

MoreCowbell

Its what I was thinking at first but its like a rotary dial and not a switch..


Also I can post what its going into on the harness into the ecu as far as a picture will go.

HondaPartsHero

There's no tech when someone ghetto rigs something like that. My guess is its a VTEC switch using a potentiometer, but you'll have to trace the wiring to confirm.

MoreCowbell

I obviously didnt do the mod so what does that have to do with you guys not knowing your ****? Its not a vtec switch or change vtec engagement when its moved

apexi_rsx

id cut it out and see what happens such as cels or no start. u can always splice them back together.

s13hero

No one was saying that you did it, all anyone is saying is that it is difficult to tell especially from your first post, of a picture with very little description. As far as anyone "not knowing their ****" it seems like this would apply to you as well since you posted here. How are we supposed to know what a random connector is that never came stock? If I show you a picture of a random connector on something will you know what it is? Most likely not, and thats reasonable, and I wouldn't go around saying you didn't know your **** for it.

Edit:A quick google search reveals that HondaPartsHero is most likely right, you can read up on that here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiometer

grumblemarc

iTrader: (4)

Then remove it. It didn't come from Honda and you said yourself it doesn't seem to do squat. Don't know how we are suppose to know what friggin' function that hack job is supposed to preform and how that means we don't know our ****. Apparently neither do you.

MR.johnson

tell us what pins it goes to on the ecu and maybe we can spoon feed you some info. its not hard.

:walksaway:

98ekb16

As was already said, we did not put that switch in your car, none of our cars have that switch because it is not stock. How the hell are we supposed to know what it does? Follow the wires to wherever they are spliced in to your car and get back to us or ask the person that wired that switch into your car. Stop getting your panties in a bunch because we don't know what some random switch in your car does when we didn't install it. The tech is lacking because you didn't give enough info for us to figure it out since you obviously have no idea how to do it yourself.

EJ8_Man

You're angry at us because you have a non-functional, non-standard, radio-shack potentiometer that has two wires going to some unknown location in your car?

Maybe someone put it there simply to confuse you, and make you look like a complete idiot by trying to make all of us look like complete idiots? Anything is possible

Anon51

looks more like someone's attempt at bypassing the ELD. trace the wires to each connector harness and post it here.

tlarimer

iTrader: (3)

Ah the benefits of buying someone else's project/hack job. As far as us not knowing our **** as you so politely put it, there are over 1000 ways to hack a car's wiring and only one way to fix it, correctly!!! Trace it and you need to tell us where it goes, until then the only person who can help you, is you!!!

BignevadaBoB

Hope this answers some questions for you.

"Fool the ecu
We fool the ECU by providing a similar voltage that the FTP would normally send -- this happens to be around 2.5v. You need to acquire a 10k linear potentiometer: Radio Shack Part Number 271-1715.
The outter 2 pins are going to be +5v reference and ground (does not matter which), while the center pin will be your output feeding back to the ECU pinout.
"

http://www.ff-squad.com/technet/code91.htm

MoreCowbell

Ok now we have some good info going on here. Anon mentioned bypassing the eld and this car currently throws two codes 1 for a P1298 and the other a P1457.
These are the codes defined...
Electric Load Detector (ELD) Circuit High Voltage
Evaporative Emissions (EVAP) Control System Leakage (EVAP Canister System) EVAP

I am not mad at all, just frustrating posting up threads with no answers. Also its kind of obvious it was not stock so thats why I asked the question of hey anyone know wtf this is? Does that sound normal?

I have tried to adjust while driving for vtec or to see if idle changed and nothing happened.

MoreCowbell

I will get a photo up tonight on the wiring harness on where its actually going to. Will also post up the fix when it happens. The previous owner had these issues with the car so of course everything transferred to me.

canadaek

and what the hell is up with the justin beaber avatar ???

HondaPartsHero

Sounds like your original post, so post the ECU pinouts so we can give you some good "tech"

MoreCowbell

Look like crap? Should I take more pics or is the wires good enough to see?

94EG8

I'm pretty sure it's a potentiometer to fool the ECU into thinking the car has a fuel tank pressure sensor (otherwise you have to swap in an EX gas tank and wire in the FTPS)

Take a look at this link and see if it uses the same pinout, you've got an OBD2A setup btw so check under the OBD2A section.

http://technet.ff-squad.com/code91.htm

MR.johnson

give us the pin outs on the plugs.

MoreCowbell

Ok now I am starting to really get confused... so the car is a 99 dx hatch, the motor a 99 gsr.. You sure its OBD2A? I dont know what harness they used. Let me know how I would post the plug pinouts, if its a picture of the harness going into the ecu with those three cables from the odd connector, let me know thanks!

EJ8_Man

I only see 3 connectors which is OBD2B. OBD2A used all four connectors.