The car is a 1997 Honda Prelude base model with a Euro R swap and converted to manual. The starter wont turn over, but when we jump the starter the car turns over and cranks. Need some suggestions on what we might have missed.

 

have you connected the earth near the thermostat housing?

 

i think he means the Ground near the thermostat housing.

 

Did you do the wiring for the neutral safety switch?

 

Yes all the grounds are good, car runs fine when you jump the starter. The car just wont start when you turn the key over.

Also where abouts would the neutral safety switch would be at, I didnt read anything about it in the write ups.

EDIT: Figured out the problem, had to go through the honda manual and look at the wiring diagrams for the starter and relay. You use the connector in the engine bay called the gear indicator sensor, it has about 10 wires on it and you splice together the ones that are in common with the park and neutral wires.


Modified by Max Kling at 4:50 PM 2/27/2007

 

hi mate just joined as im looking for as much info as possible please
did you do this conversion yourself if so could you give me a bit of guidence
cheers

 

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EDIT: Figured out the problem, had to go through the honda manual and look at the wiring diagrams for the starter and relay. You use the connector in the engine bay called the gear indicator sensor, it has about 10 wires on it and you splice together the ones that are in common with the park and neutral wires.
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That's the most common problem for auto to manual start. Even when I did mine it took me awhile to figure out I had to wire it up to make the car still think it's in park.

 

hi mate thanks for reply i now have a manual ecu will that sort things or not