like title says, i know the usdm h22a1 dizzy cap doesnt work, so what cap do i use from what car/engine/year??? also, i know stuff varies on the obd I h22 between 92 and 95, so how can i tell exactly what year the engine is??? ive heard of the crank pulley bolt being different and i think the pcv valve is different, what can i measure to be sure???

thanks

 

I know where you can find the year of the engine. It's in between the 1 and 2 header (I think) maybe 3 and 4th header, but anyway it's between one of the headers. So you have to remove the heat shield and there's a clock like symbol with and arrow. The #'s on the clock are the months of the year i.e if the arrow is pointing at the 2 then it's February. There's a # in the middle of the clock and that's the year of the engine, however if the arrow is pointing at 6 (June) or more then you add 1 year to what the # of the middle is. For mine it said 92 in the middle of the clock, but the arrow was pointing at 6 so the year of the engine is a 93. I could be wrong, but that's how I found out.

 

did they make the 92's in japan with h22? did they have a jdm f22 non si modle like we did?

 

h22a jdm vtec's came out in japan in '91

when you did the swap. you either should have re-used h23 dizzy/external coil or you probably need to buy a usdm one, its just easier to find stuff that way

 

bump, still trying to find out which dizzy cap i can use...

 

External, I got one from a local dealership

 

do you have an internal dizzy or external?




Modified by kulrevon at 9:58 AM 2/24/2006

 

My JDM H22 (92) is an internal coil and I used a cap from a newer Civic Si I believe the guy gave me one from a 99 or 2000. If you have the old one take it in with you and compare just have the shop pull a few off the shelf.

 

you can use a 90-93 accord dizzy cap. I did on my JDM h22a dizzy.

 

What, petern101 said.......

 

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LOL amen brotha

honestly did he not read my response? why do ppl always try to make stuff hard?

 

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LOL amen brotha

honestly did he not read my response? why do ppl always try to make stuff hard?</TD></TR></TABLE>

having to go out and buy a whole new dist and convert the jdm internal coil dist thats been in the car for 2 years back to external is the easy way??? if the civic si dist cap works on the internal h22a like someone said i would say that is easier

 

well i meant by not changing the thing in the first place

it is a much better option to do it during the swap. if you didn't do the swap, then maybe i can see why it would be a bit more of a problem. there is no benefit from keeping the internal distributor while making it into an external distributor is.

 

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it's not hard at all. all you do is take off the old dizzy, put on the h23a1, find a place to put the coil, set timing, you're set!

like I said earlier, if you want to keep your internal coil dizzy, you can use a 90-93 accord cap also.